Overcoming Laziness and Winning At The Game Of Life
When we were young, we had so many plans. We’d always think about the limitless possibilities we’d have when we grow up. Then we go about playing, thinking that we have so much time ahead.
We set those dreams aside and enjoy our youth to the fullest. While this may be a healthy attitude, some people take relaxation to another level. They procrastinate and postpone their planning until too late.
They suddenly find themselves already grown up with no clear direction in their lives. They still depend on their parents for financial support even when moving out of the house is way overdue.
Sometimes they live in shame, but still don’t find the initiative to do something about it. This is the effect of laziness in its most basic and blatant form.
Many people come across as lazy because they don’t know how to go about accomplishing their dreams. They don’t know how to set and axchieve goals. Quite simply, they have never been taught.
So, sometimes in order to overcome laziness, you must temporarily allow yourself to be the laziest person on earth. Give yourself permission to do nothing but think. Take some time to take stock.
Yes. Give yourself some more time off, about a week or two, just so that this too doesn’t go on forever. Set your time limit for getting it all together, and starting out again properly.
Think about how things would be for you if you didn’t have your parents or friends to depend on. Obviously, you wouldn’t have much to live with.
Everything you need to live today requires money: TV, electricity, and so on. But. focus your attention for the moment on just being lazy and avoid contact with friends as much as possible. Go ahead, be lazy, get it out of your system.
Basically, you would be doing nothing but getting bored out of your wits. Of course, you must not mistake temporarily taking some time out, as just being permanently lazy.
Look at this as your chance to recuperate and get over all your fears and uncertainties. Your body and mind will work things out in ways you aren’t always conscious of. Let your subconcious start working out a plan for you to put into action when your lazy time is complete.
Sometimes you need time to take a step back to take two steps forward. You just need to finally imagine and create a reality of your own. This sort of play can produce your most creative spark. You will begin to look forward to ending this forced laziness, and be productive.
Get excited, document the details of your new life the way you want to have them. Whether you choose to draw, write, or record your story, just know that the act itself can be very helpful and prophetic. Setting your goals and making your plans is the first step to achievement.
The reason for this purposeful inactivity is to inspire you to do more and to make plans that will help you achieve what you want. Step outside yourself and look inside. Do you still see a lazy person, or just someone doing the best he can with what he has given?
Don’t allow the past to determine or limit who you are, use your future actions to identify with and expand your thinking to that of a joyful, high energy, successful person. Imagine yourself as a person who loves be active, loves to live every minute of life, a person who wouldn’t dream of sitting around letting life pass him by.
So, who are you now? Don’t you have massive potential? Who do you want to become? Start being that person when you are ready to go for it. Remember to put the past where it belongs – in the past. You will live the rest of your life in the future. And the future is bright, motivating, and productive.
You can do much more than you think. Go for it!
Al Smith
Here is a favorite quotation of mine. Positive Attitude Quotation To Ponder