{"id":39678,"date":"2016-03-13T20:44:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T04:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/?p=39678"},"modified":"2016-03-15T20:57:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T04:57:50","slug":"motivate-overcome-total-laziness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/blog\/motivate-overcome-total-laziness\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Motivate Yourself To Overcome Total Laziness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m lazy. That’s right. And there’s nothing wrong with being lazy at all.<\/p>\n

To give you context, here’s what I mean when I say I’m lazy.<\/p>\n

If I could snap my fingers and have my dinner prepared for me in a flash, I’d do it without a doubt. That would save me a LOT of time.<\/p>\n

If I could turn my laptop on by pressing a button on my smartphone (someone should invent that), then I’d gladly do it.<\/p>\n

If I had to decide between shopping online and shopping offline in the supermarket, I’d do it online because it takes less time and less effort.<\/p>\n

If I had to choose between shopping in the day time and shopping at night, I’d do it at night. Because there’s less people, less que’s, less headache and less effort on my part.<\/p>\n

Laziness only becomes a problem when you let your lazy tendencies interfere with your life and your priorities.<\/p>\n

If laziness is doing exactly that to you, for example – playing video games all day and night, and having your girlfriend bring you food and water because you’re too lazy to do it yourself… (Hopefully it hasn’t gotten that bad for you) Here’s how you can motivate yourself to overcome it.<\/p>\n

1. Put the <\/b>repercussions<\/b> into perspective.<\/b><\/h3>\n

I used to play video games throughout the day and throughout the night. Almost everyday. Sometimes everyday. Sometimes a few days a week.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I’d wake up at 12-2PM in the afternoon. On rare occasions it was 4PM. On a lot of occasions I’d go bed at 3-5AM after gaming so much playing Halo, etc.<\/p>\n

When It became a habit I had no job at the time. I was looking, but I obviously wasn’t putting in enough work as you can probably tell.<\/p>\n

I abused my time playing games, after all. Which in business talk, has a poor ROI over the long term.<\/p>\n

Imagine how many books I could have read, how much money I could have made, or many important skills I could have developed in that time?<\/p>\n

So what did I do about it? Eventually the repercussions were put into perspective. Not by choice either. Here’s what those repercussions looked like.<\/p>\n