“Laziness is sickness to success.” – Jonathan Celestin
Laziness is common and a natural part of life, it easily swallows us. I do not know about you. The question is, can you overcome laziness? Yes, you can overcome your laziness.
Personally, I have times where laziness causes me to feel stuck. No matter what I do, I cannot easily kick it off. I end up feeling tired, I fall asleep constantly during the day, I sit around a lot and feel unable to be active, I sometimes avoid doing anything productive, and put on hold things that I want to accomplish.
Two Complicated Kinds of Laziness
Laziness is a kind of toxic feeling everyone experiences. I believe that there are two complicated kinds of laziness.
First, laziness is kind of a place where you work hard for weeks and then you end up being so lazy quickly and do nothing. Secondly, laziness is kind of a place where you feel frustrated to locate your motivation. Every time you are thinking of doing something you want to try, you feel like a failure and you are unable to meet your goal or dream. That is what I am talking about: the complicated kind of laziness.
I’m sure I’m not alone in that kind of struggle. And I am not the only person who is miserable, my husband and my two boys are in the same boat. I thought about 6 ways to overcome laziness that I want to share with you so you can fight your laziness off.
6 Ways To Overcome Laziness
- Focus on some important areas in your life. I have to stay focused on my Etsy shop and write a post in my blog. After I finish my errands, I spend some time with my husband and/or my boys.
- Exercise. Yes, I need that! Mostly, I walk around the house because that makes me feel better than sitting down on my professional black chair for long periods of time. And should I go to the gym? No. I do not need to go to the gym in order to save towards our budget. I cut off my gym membership within the last two months, it is not worth it. I have some home exercise equipment here.
- Motivation. I must stay motivated. I get up at 7am every morning. Sometimes, my tiredness and sleepiness cause me to lose my motivation and leads me to be lazy in some way. I hate it when that happens! I have a great idea! Write down motivational quotes on post-it notes where I can see. Reading motivational quotes can help you gaining more motivation and stay energized. Otherwise, you can write down a note that you can put on your computer monitor, the mirror, or anywhere you want.
- Organize and Schedule. I have my planner, I create my own planner stickers, write down some important notes. At home, I organize some planner stickers for my Etsy shop and make sure that everything is scheduled to ship before I drop the packages off to the post office.
- Finish what you start. I have a lot of errands at home. I sometimes wash the dishes but I don’t feel like that as I allow my tiredness to control my body. I have to keep active and finish my tasks such as doing the laundry, dishes, and others but I sometimes ask my husband and boys to help me too. ( I hate folding the socks since they are mismatched. :-/ )
- Look for activity clubs. You can find your interests that can match the activity clubs you want to attend. You can go ask your friends or family out where they keep you busy. Or you can ask some friends to join you for the book club or bible study together to keep you motivated.
Which one of the items on this list can help you overcome your laziness? If it’s not on the list, can you tell us how you overcome your laziness?
Loving all your tips. I can be REALLY lazy sometimes.
Thank you for the great tips! my biggest challenge comes to organizing & scheduling my work. I love to write, but I keep putting things off out of pure laziness. It really kills inspiration & self-esteem. Doing one thing at a time helps a lot of people with ADHD. Excellent post!
My lazy starts with the morning. I have a hard time getting out of bed to start my day.
I been doing some of your tips and they have helped me alot more the going to the gym because after it I feel full of energy
If laziness was an Olympic sport I would win first prize. Hand down! My husband keep snappy me out of my laziness – it so tiring!!
I loved your tips! Specially the one about finishing the task… I sometimes struggle and live things half way! I need to keep remembering myself focus on one thing at the time!
There are something that I get motivated in and something I never feel like doing.
Exercise is such a tricky thing! I know I need to do more of it in order to feel like doing more of it LOL Thanks for all of the great tips 🙂
I tend to get lazy during the weekends and I end up having to live through it when the week starts, it’s annoying. I always make sure I stick to a schedule to keep myself from becoming lazy and procrastinating.
I personally am a very lazy person and it takes me a lot of strenght to actually get thing done hahah. Thanks for the tips! They seem quite helpful 🙂
What helps me is when I have a goal and set date to accomplish something. It also helps to have others that help keep me on track too.
Sometimes, I get lazy too but I always make sure that I follow my time schedule. It is helpful to be organized to avoid laziness.
These tips are so helpful! Sometimes, I have laziness attacks and I hate myself on that.
We all have lazy days.Some good points to help over come those dark days
I am being lazy sometimes but I always make a daily goal so I can follow it and overcome laziness,
Exercise is great for boosting your energy and driving you to be more productive! I have also found that if I can just force myself to keep plugging away even when it’s hard. It’s like the act of doing it eventually gets me in the groove of things.
I just genuinely like to be lazy at times.
Drinking a big cup of coffee while coming up with a schedule for the day is my best way to fight laziness!
This is a great post! I think people are so used to being lazy these days but exercise definitely helps motivate me!
This is really helpful tips for me. Sometimes I get so lazy the whole day
Yes, yes, yes, organize and schedule! I don’t know what I would do without my planner, seriously. And I also just have to stay busy going from task to task, if I sit for too long doing nothing I get unfocused and the tiredness sets in.
such great tips! I’m notoriously lazy so I think you wrote this post for me.
I know someone who is so motivated to go to work. When he gets home though, that’s it. He’s not doing one single thing. He needs this list, lol!
It can be hard but having a schedule has helped me a lot overcoming my laziness lol Also making goals each month!
Great advice especially when it comes to motivation, I’d take as a priority or else everything will not follow. Looking for activity clubs is not such a bad idea at all, you might find people in the same league as you and that should also help get you some motivation.
Number 4 has saves me so many time! I would recommend to start from there
That is a very motivational piece. I must also thank you for quoting me. I am glad to see that you find my quote worthy of this masterpiece. The list that you have provided is very exceptional. I agree with all of them. Laziness is definitely something that needs to be nip in the bud. Anyways; find more of my work @ https://TheNewestFactor.com
Thanks For Sharing!
JC