How to outsmart your laziness and extract from it the benefit
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
Many gurus productivity is actually quite lazy. For example, the author of the well-known technique of Getting Things Done by David Allen.
David AllenDo I often ask, I have always been so organized, but I was always lazy. That's why I became interested in productivity. I wake up thinking about how I simplify their task today. Self-efficacy - the only way to improve something.
To stay healthy and productive in spite of the laziness, practice this quality, as long as it has not taken hold of your entire life.
- Understand what kind of business you are too lazy to do.
- Organize your habits concerning these cases.
Consider the limits of their laziness. During some cases you start to be lazy, and which are given to you easily? For example, you lazy get up early or eat right? Or prokrastiniruete, but do not be lazy to work, because you love the business?
When you find their weaknesses, try to structure your life so that you too lazy to help. Here are a few examples:
- Leave your phone and tablet in another room, when reading or working. You do not want to get up for them, as a result you will not be distracted by them.
- Reach for sportswear in the evening and put in a prominent place. In the morning it easier to put on than to look for something else. So you're more likely to take exercise.
- Come out of all your accounts in social networks, to spend less time in them. Set a very long passwords. Then the next time you will be too lazy to type them.
- Remove the app to read mail on the phone. Go to e-mail through a mobile browser is too uncomfortable, so you will not so often to check your inbox.
- If you eat all that lies before you leave on the table vegetables. Eat them will be easier than reheat food purchase.
- Over the weekend, often too lazy to get out of bed. Leave at night the phone in another room, so as not to carry with him all day. A wake by using fitness tracker or a conventional alarm clock.
- If you really too lazy to go to the gym, enter the bonus points for training and accumulate them. Then they can be spent on sweets and other tasty rewards.
- If you are too lazy run, Find someone with whom you can go for a run together. In this case, go out is easier than to bring another person.
Rearrange your habits in this way, and laziness will not stop you, and move forward.