According to the great Gogol, the Russian person is quitecould be a giant, if not for one enemy. This enemy is immaterial, however, he “knows” how to ruin life well, even beautifully. His name is laziness. Few people like lazy people. They are constantly accused, reproached. No one wants to have anything to do with them. Often, the lazy young lady herself does not experience joy from her inherent quality - her own conscience gnaws at her, she scolds herself, sometimes even begins to hate herself, engages in self-flagellation. However, all this is in vain. First of all, she lacks the willpower to overcome her laziness. In addition to this, she lacks the experience of overcoming laziness. In fact, she herself simply does not know how to overcome laziness. Because sometimes she does not even know what it is.
What is laziness
Each of us has encountered this feeling,when we have a lot of work to do, but sudden or even habitual, constant laziness prevents us from motivating ourselves to complete a task. We do not feel enough energy or simply do not want to do a certain job because we lack inspiration or sufficient encouragement to start working. So laziness prevents us from acting; but what is even worse, it deprives us of life experience, because we strive for something much less, stop doing hobbies or any other activity in our free time, reduce our social circle. Let's not let laziness reduce the quality of our lives! First of all: what is laziness? It is a psychological state of a person when he or she lacks energy and/or desire to complete tasks. There are different reasons for this, but more on that later. The good news is that you can overcome your laziness if you make some changes in your mentality. Which is what we will try to do with you.
What are lazy people like?
Psychologists distinguish several types of laziness.Therefore, it can be argued that lazy people as such are different. If you consider yourself a lazy person, then you first need to determine what type of laziness corresponds to you. Or, to be more precise, you need to determine what type of lazy person you are. And only after that, following fairly simple advice, start solving your problem - start fighting laziness. So, let's begin:
- Our first type is the “tired lazybones” In thisIn this case, laziness appears due to the deterioration of a person's physical condition, when his or her physical tone decreases. Forceful techniques from the outside will not help much in this case. How can this sufferer overcome laziness? It would be appropriate for her to take weak psychostimulants, such as tinctures of ginseng, eleutherococcus. Taking a course of vitamins will not hurt. Perhaps this will seem strange to you, but having such a form of laziness, this girl needs to get enough sleep. After all, healthy sleep has a beneficial effect on human life and increases the activity of the body.
- The second type of this defect is laziness,caused by lack of willpower This is the most common type of laziness. A “weak-willed lazy person”, even if she knows how important a particular task is for her, cannot muster all her willpower to start working. This type of laziness is often experienced by students (they are “too lazy” to study, even though they know that the session is just around the corner), girls who would like to lose weight (oh, how I don’t want to sweat on the exercise machine! I’ll eat my last piece of cake today, but on Monday I’ll start losing weight!) and many others. How to overcome this kind of laziness? The secret is simple: start working, that’s all. Not tomorrow, not in an hour – right now, this very minute! A simple method will help you overcome yourself: you need to break one complex task into several simple ones. The prospect of simple work will not discourage you from starting it. You’ve probably noticed that starting to work can sometimes be much more difficult than continuing it later. Once you are able to overcome the first barrier, you will feel that the task itself was not so difficult, and you may even become excited.
- Next on our list is "lazy boring girl"A girl does not want to do her job just because she is bored. A job she does not like, people she is not interested in communicating with, events she does not want to attend at all - all this contributes to the development and aggravation of laziness. This is the simplest option. How to overcome laziness in this case? You just need to understand, admit to yourself that this is “not yours”, refuse this routine work for you, do what you like, what suits you.
- Next up we have "lazybones"disorganized" This is the most dangerous representative of the lazy. This girl seems to have good energy, and is engaged in an interesting business that she likes, but she cannot achieve any success, cannot get going, enter the right rhythm. Because of this type of laziness, the whole future life of the lazy person may suffer. What should she do? The ways to combat laziness in this case are hidden in the girl herself. She needs to work on herself, make an effort to shape herself as a person. It is also necessary to have an action plan for each day. It is also very important not to dwell on failures, but to focus on positive moments where success was achieved. Even minimal. And it is imperative to praise yourself for the victories achieved.
- A more complex type of laziness is “intuitive laziness”,caused by our type of thinking and attitude to problems We all have different ways of thinking and attitude to life. Some people associate laziness with negativity, while others associate laziness with pleasure (it’s nice to do nothing!) or perceive it as a defense mechanism to avoid additional work and overload. Intuitive laziness is typical for people who at some point in their lives were forced to do work that ultimately turned out to be completely unnecessary. They have built a certain belief at a subconscious level that laziness will help them save time and energy that would have to be spent on doing the work. And those who associate laziness with negativity use it as a defense mechanism when it comes to feeling fear, for example, fear of failure, fear of responsibility, and so on. How to fight such laziness? The very first step is to realize that this way of thinking and perceiving reality is not constructive and can harm you. You must understand that refusing to do the work is the wrong decision and it will not help you escape from your fears.
- Procrastination This procrastination canbe considered a form of laziness, because it has much in common with it. Agree, people put things off until later mainly because they are too lazy to do something now. Putting things off until later and laziness have one thing in common: under various pretexts, they prevent us from starting to do what we need or would like to do. What to do in such a case? Firstly, the habit of putting things off until later reduces our chances of success, and this must be clearly understood. In order to overcome this bad habit, try a proven method: as described above, start dividing the work into stages. Do not take on an immense task that seems impossible, start working from simple to complex.
- There is another type of lazy person - the "inventor". But this oneThe lazy type cannot be considered together with the other "types". After all, these lazy people have simplified our lives a lot. And they continue to simplify them even now. For example, it was too lazy to walk - they invented the car. And everyone benefits from this, right?
How to overcome laziness?
Speaking about different types of laziness, we have already suggestedsome ways to combat each specific type. Now I would like to summarize and present to your attention ways to overcome any type of laziness. Here is what you need to do to never experience it again:
- Start from simple to complex As we alreadyThey say that breaking one big task into several smaller ones is very useful for combating laziness. It is an effective trick that will help you slowly but surely overcome your inner resistance.
- Doing the job step by step Breaking down the taskinto several smaller ones will help reduce the pressure of deadlines and will keep you motivated. You will be able to perform small tasks one after another quite relaxed. Having completed one task, you will feel pleasure and inspiration, because you have coped with the task! It will be easier for you to take on the next task.
- Make a To-Do List Sometimes wewe find ourselves in situations where we are faced with a chaotic pile of work that needs to be done urgently. We then do not even know what to grab first and what to do later, and our hands simply drop. The list you create will help to understand such a situation, restoring the "overview"; but even more importantly, it helps us understand that very often the task seems more difficult than it actually is. By making a to-do list for the current day or week, you will be able to organize the work from simple to more complex.
- Visualize the benefits of taking action beforeinaction Imagine how light and free you will feel when the work is over. Paint a vivid picture of the benefits that await you when you achieve your goal: satisfaction from the work done, a sense of pride in your willpower, the success and experience that will come to you after completing all the tasks. Such visualization will help to overcome internal resistance and increase your motivation.
- Isolate anything that could distract you fromaffairs Very often the source of our laziness is television, the Internet, etc., because it seems to us that this is a much more interesting activity than the work we need to do. No matter what distracts you when you should be working, studying, cleaning, - delete it! If it is difficult to fight temptation, then start resorting to visualization. In this case, it is useful to begin visualization by imagining the feeling of remorse that awaits you if the work is not done. And only then imagine the pleasure of defeating yourself!
- Reward yourself every time you succeedto overcome your laziness and complete the task, you must reward yourself. This will help you consolidate the positive emotions from overcoming laziness and connect them with the awareness of the need to make an effort. Just make sure that the reward is proportional to the effort made (a small victory - a small reward, and vice versa).
We have provided several ways to overcome laziness.Now, the choice is yours. In any case, you need to fight laziness. After all, they invented remedies against stretch marks! And earlier it was believed that this defect would remain with a person forever. So, laziness is not a stigma. It is in your power to fix everything! We recommend reading:
