Laziness is a Sin: How to Get Over It?

Most of us have felt lazy about something, at one point or another in our lives. But for those who suffer from ‘Chronic laziness’, it is a way of life. This chronic laziness can kill everything that makes life worth living. So it is very important to identify, understand and finally say ‘good-bye’ to chronic laziness. Let’s look at the 3 stages that help overcome laziness.

1) Identify chronic laziness

      Lazy you!

If you lack a zest for life, don’t feel motivated or always feel bored; you have a problem. This inertia to explore new things in life is a sign of chronic laziness. All of us have our good and bad days, but chronic laziness will manifest as follows:

• An urge to push off everything to a later date.
• Always asking others to do your work and making up excuses, as to why you can’t do it.
• Low energy level, boredom, social and personal isolation.
• Inertia to learn and do new things.

2) Understand what chronic laziness can do

         Self-awareness

You need help, if you think that you are way too lazy. Here is how you understand chronic laziness.

• If you are unsure of why you feel lazy all the time, seek help from a physician. A Clinical depression test can help understand what the underlying issue is. You need to rule out the possibility of mental ailments.
• Once your physician says that there is no medical problem, it means that you can work on the problem yourself.
• Make a note of why you feel lazy, what triggers this feeling and how often you put off doing a task. Don’t lie to yourself. Only then would you be able to overcome chronic laziness.
• Also, think of whether you were always lazy, or if this is a new development.
• Note down all the things that you are missing out on, due to your laziness. Realize how messed up your health, personal relationships, work-life etc have become, all because of your laziness.

3) Defeat chronic laziness

Once you have understood how miserable you are due to your laziness, you are ready to start a fight against it. I said ’start a fight’ because, it takes work to get over this laziness. It is like any other addiction. So this is how you defeat it.

    Happy you!

• From the notes that you have made, pick the worst lazy behaviour that you show. Do you slack off when it comes to your health or office work? Do you take your partner for granted and let him/her do all your work? Stop it! It has to be a conscious decision.
• Start socializing. Invite your friends and/or family over. You could also spend time with them playing sports, having barbacues etc.
• Keep a ‘chronic laziness to-do list’. When you overcome one issue from that list, reward yourself. Do something that you like. But that does not include getting lazy again!
• Keep reminding yourself, how great life would be once you have overcome your laziness issue. This is it- your permanent-pass to a better, more fulfilling life.

Once you have crossed all these stages, ‘you’ will be the person everyone loves to be around. Laziness will no longer be the boss of you. Have fun, and lead an awesome life!