Feeling Lazy: 9 Amazing ways to Overcome Laziness
Laziness = lack of desire = no productivity. Laziness is a perfectly natural thing. For some reason if we weren’t had to do offices, meet deadlines, we could have dozed the whole day, watch TV or just do nothing.
Laziness is the lack of desire to perform work or expend effort. What behavior is considered laziness varies according to personal and societal standards.
We need to overcome laziness. Hmm… I can’t say that I’ve been completely successful in overcoming it. But still enough to get the job done. So, what to do to beat laziness and reclaim the lost inspiration?
Have a good rest
In the previous post on getting up early, I wrote if we don’t get enough rest we could easily feel lazy. Don’t waste your time with those late night shows, hurry up to bed and have a good rest. During daytime you can take a nap for say half an hour or 20 minutes, enough to get back some lost energy.
Exercise
Exercise is a great way to boost your energy levels and put you in a better mood. Its very easy for people to fall into the laziness trap if they feel low of energy. Make sure you have a workout in the morning every day, it will keep you fresh and active for most part of the day.
Motivation.
Its is very easy to forget the purpose of your work. Remind yourself why is your work so important, think for your satisfaction, family, money and so so. What if something happens to me , family if I don’t start with my work? Think about the consequences.
Remove the distractions
Laziness attracts distractions. Kids like watching TV while talking, yep we bloggers tend to browse others blogs when we are supposed to write on our own. If you remove those distractions, for example unplugging the Internet, lockup the TV, you’ll notice in couple of days how laziness is gradually leaving your life.
Reward yourself!
Reward yourself! You need to reward yourself for completing each task, in order to feel good about having stressed yourself in order to get the job done. Reward yourself to eat your favorite meal or watch movie if you complete the tasks.
Healthy diet
Make sure you’re on a healthy diet ; junk or fast food doesn’t give your body the nutrients it needs to be active. You’ll only become fat and lazier if you don’t stop those chips, frys, pizzas etc. Fruit juices are great way to supplement your body with nutrients while working.
Divide the task into smaller chunks
If the task at hand is big it can easily overwhelm anyone. In such cases, divide the task into smaller chunks, and go through them one by one. Remember, you can’t gobble an apple at one go, its much easier to eat if you take it bit by bit.
Set goals for yourself
If you have goals set up for yourself, you have something to look forward to, it maybe your paycheck, a car etc. Create list of large and small things and prioritize. Its lot easier to overcome laziness if you have purpose in life.
Don’t stop
Its easy enough to get lazy after completing task. Don’ t let your brain talk you into lazying. Once you have completed a task move over to the next one but make sure you reward yourself with something for accomplishing the latter task. If you really don’t have any work, head over to the gym, start jogging, help your kids with the homework, do anything to keep your hands and feet’s moving but say no to TV, internet, etc.
I know this isn’t the most comprehensive article on how to overcome laziness. But these are the things that i learned. Do you have any tips to share on how to overcome laziness. Don’t be shy, feel free to share them.
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Pretty good list. The most effective one I’ve found is “divide it up,” the rest never really worked for me.
Good points. Don’t turn on the TV either,will help
@ david wow it feels really great when something you show works for others.
@Tejvan Pettinger even u have a cool blog mate. simple productivity
its really great and u know it is relly helping me one aftee da other way.thankx tkx a lot
its really helping me one after the other way.thank thankx a lot
cool im feeling energy alredy
thanks a lot.i will try it and i´m sure that i will make it work.
@mynnna
Is it really
@faty
Great atleast my efforts are will not go in vain!
@varghese
hope it works with you too!
nice list.. but u see these are the things that we already know.. but we actualy dont do it..!!
anyways these kind of blogs provide motivation and the real winner is the one who follows it..
Dividing a task into smaller chunks, as you mentioned in your article is a good idea.
We often avoid tasks because we find them too big, too overwhelming, too tiring or taking too much of our time. Breaking a task into several smaller tasks can solve this problem. Then each one will not seem so difficult or intimidating.
Sometimes we avoid doing a job because it’s too small…”I can get to it later because it will only take a few minutes to do”. And then it never gets done. Motivation is difficult, especially if you have a lot of small tasks. And distractions are usually a root cause. I blame TV the most. It makes the brain lazy. One of these days I’m going to get off the couch and turn off the TV set. But first I have to put new batteries into the remote control…I’ll do that later!
I am feeling lazzy bcoz my body is not having abough energy, I will read your another aritcle about diet. This is really helpful. I will stay away from TV and internet
quite helpful