We all have towering dreams in our life. Many of us also know how to achieve it, but we don’t work hard to achieve our dreams. Have you ever noticed that we always have enough time to watch our favorite movie or play our favorite sport or go to our favorite restaurant, but we don’t have enough time to clean our house or complete our office work or learn a new skill? We are simply lazy when it comes to doing useful productive work.
Personal growth is impossible without a lot of productive work on our part and one of the biggest challenges to being productive is laziness. Laziness is natural and normal human beings love to sit idly unless circumstances compel them to do otherwise. Is it possible to overcome laziness and start working for our goals? Is it possible to be energetic all the time? Here are 7 powerful tips to overcome laziness:
Physical activity: Find at least 30 minutes to exercise every day. It will improve our blood circulation and keep us active and energetic all day. Simple, low-intensity exercises could cut fatigue in half and increase energy by at least 20%. Walking is the easiest way to increase your energy levels.
Eat sensibly: Excess food and unhealthy food will make us lazy. Be careful to eat only when you are hungry and eat small pieces of healthy food. Try to avoid caffeine as much as possible.
Sleep well: We spend so much time on unproductive tasks that we often get less sleep. This will make you lazy again the next day. Get at least 6-8 sleep every day. It will make us more energetic, active and productive.
Try to minimize downtime: Observe yourself every day and keep a mental record of your free time. Try your best to minimize it. Limit watching television and surfing the Internet unnecessarily. You may decide not to watch a movie on television that you have seen before.
Keep a schedule: Writing is very boring but very effective. Write down all the tasks you need to do and mark them as done when and when each task is done. It will remind us how unproductive we are and we could measure our improvement using it.
Take one bite at a time: Divide tasks into manageable chunks. Take one piece at a time and fill it out. Huge tasks will create a mental block before we even start working on them. Each small task completed will motivate us to work on the next.
Reward yourself: Most of the time, our dreams are so big that we will only get the results after a long time. Until then, we could reward ourselves for completing each stage or milestone. The reward could be her favorite food, movie, or dress.
Observe the successful people around you: Just look around you and we could see many ordinary but successful people who succeeded only with their disciplined work. Observe what they are doing differently and try to learn a lesson or two from them.
Challenge yourself: Continual improvement is the key to success and we must challenge ourselves every day. We need to compete with ourselves every day and measure progress. Although we must learn from others, do not compare yourself with others, as our goal is not to achieve something that others have already achieved, but to establish new benchmarks.
Live your passion: This is a suggestion that makes virtually all other suggestions redundant. If we could find our passion and turn it into our career, we would no longer need any other motivation to be energetic. Our passion will propel us forward and keep our energy levels high. If we are doing a job that we do not like, we should seriously think about finding and living our passion.
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