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How to Stop Being Lazy (3 Simple Steps) The Man Show
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How to stop being lazy. The answer to ‘how to stop being lazy’ is simple, effective, and easily implemented, but it may not be what you want to hear. If you actually want to know how to stop being lazy, if you have drive behind that desire for an answer, you can stop being lazy, very quickly actually.
The problem: most people THINK they want to stop being lazy, but they don’t. In truth, they love laziness. It gives them an excuse for not becoming what they could become, and not reaching their potential. But you’re different…
You genuinely do want to stop being lazy. You’re craving an answer, and I’ll give you that answer in 3 simple steps:
1. Have a plan. If you don’t know what you have to do, or what to do, you’ll do either the wrong things, or even worse, you’ll do nothing. If you’re not planning your day, start! And don’t plan it in the morning of that same day, plan it after the previous work day is done.
For one, you’ve just worked your entire day, you’re very aware of what needs to be done tomorrow, so write it down, and make sure it brings you closer to your ideal goal. It will also clear your mind, rid yourself of worries about what more has to be done so you can relax at night and hit the ground running the next day.
If you don’t know what you should do, you’ll end up doing nothing. Make a plan!
2. Shut your brain off. Most people rationalize inaction. They come up with a plan, and then they second-guess whether or not that’s what needs to get done. They think they have a better idea of what should be done when it comes time to act, or they begin to wonder if their plan is correct.
Then, they end up doing a bunch of different things that aren’t the thing they initially set out to do. They end up moving sideways, not forward. When you decide to do something, when you’ve put thought into it and planned it, do it!
This goes for everything, whether it’s waking up early, don’t decide not to the next day, you already made a decision! Or, a task you set out to do, or a chore you set out to do. Don’t think you now know better, especially when ‘better’ is watching TV or sleeping in or even reading when you set out to do something else.
Think, by all means, but when the decision is made, move forward with it!
3. Practice being decisive. Practice making quick decisions, trusting your gut, and then moving forward with that decision. At first it doesn’t matter whether or not the decision is the correct one, just practice moving forward, acting on your choices, and making fast, firm choices rather than spending minutes, hours, or days thinking about something.
Most laziness is just a lack of action and decision-making. It’s more a matter of avoidance than just pure laziness.
You do not have to be lazy. You do not have to think constantly about whether or not you’re doing the right thing. Right now, the important thing is to simply MOVE, get up, and get going!
If you create a plan for your day, and then you act on that plan if it’s a plan that requires effort and a full-days work, you will not have the opportunity to be lazy.
Finally, a bonus: give yourself no choice, ever, to be lazy.
If you have a TV watching problem, cancel your TV account or unplug it!
If you don’t wake up when your alarm rings, set 5 alarms, and put them in places that require you to stand up to shut them off, and don’t you dare get back into bed!
If you search too often on the internet when you’re supposed to be writing… shut your internet off and get to work.
Give yourself ZERO options. Make it an environment where only the correct decision can be made, and if you do this enough, you’ll begin to achieve things that were once pipe-dreams, and man, that is going to be a wonderful feeling!
How to stop being lazy. The answer to ‘how to stop being lazy’ is simple, effective, and easily implemented, but it may not be what you want to hear. If you actually want to know how to stop being lazy, if you have drive behind that desire for an answer, you can stop being lazy, very quickly actually.
The problem: most people THINK they want to stop being lazy, but they don’t. In truth, they love laziness. It gives them an excuse for not becoming what they could become, and not reaching their potential. But you’re different…
You genuinely do want to stop being lazy. You’re craving an answer, and I’ll give you that answer in 3 simple steps:
1. Have a plan. If you don’t know what you have to do, or what to do, you’ll do either the wrong things, or even worse, you’ll do nothing. If you’re not planning your day, start! And don’t plan it in the morning of that same day, plan it after the previous work day is done.
For one, you’ve just worked your entire day, you’re very aware of what needs to be done tomorrow, so write it down, and make sure it brings you closer to your ideal goal. It will also clear your mind, rid yourself of worries about what more has to be done so you can relax at night and hit the ground running the next day.
If you don’t know what you should do, you’ll end up doing nothing. Make a plan!
2. Shut your brain off. Most people rationalize inaction. They come up with a plan, and then they second-guess whether or not that’s what needs to get done. They think they have a better idea of what should be done when it comes time to act, or they begin to wonder if their plan is correct.
Then, they end up doing a bunch of different things that aren’t the thing they initially set out to do. They end up moving sideways, not forward. When you decide to do something, when you’ve put thought into it and planned it, do it!
This goes for everything, whether it’s waking up early, don’t decide not to the next day, you already made a decision! Or, a task you set out to do, or a chore you set out to do. Don’t think you now know better, especially when ‘better’ is watching TV or sleeping in or even reading when you set out to do something else.
Think, by all means, but when the decision is made, move forward with it!
3. Practice being decisive. Practice making quick decisions, trusting your gut, and then moving forward with that decision. At first it doesn’t matter whether or not the decision is the correct one, just practice moving forward, acting on your choices, and making fast, firm choices rather than spending minutes, hours, or days thinking about something.
Most laziness is just a lack of action and decision-making. It’s more a matter of avoidance than just pure laziness.
You do not have to be lazy. You do not have to think constantly about whether or not you’re doing the right thing. Right now, the important thing is to simply MOVE, get up, and get going!
If you create a plan for your day, and then you act on that plan if it’s a plan that requires effort and a full-days work, you will not have the opportunity to be lazy.
Finally, a bonus: give yourself no choice, ever, to be lazy.
If you have a TV watching problem, cancel your TV account or unplug it!
If you don’t wake up when your alarm rings, set 5 alarms, and put them in places that require you to stand up to shut them off, and don’t you dare get back into bed!
If you search too often on the internet when you’re supposed to be writing… shut your internet off and get to work.
Give yourself ZERO options. Make it an environment where only the correct decision can be made, and if you do this enough, you’ll begin to achieve things that were once pipe-dreams, and man, that is going to be a wonderful feeling!
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