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Hello dear readers! Although modern technologies do not stand still, a vaccine against inaction has not yet been invented. Therefore, if you do not know how to deal with laziness, I want to offer effective methods that will help you not only become more active, but also understand the reason for your apathy and lack of initiative.
Methods of struggle
1. Reasons
In order to understand what measures need to be taken, one should initially discover the reason that deprives one of the desire and strength to do something. For example, it makes no sense to force yourself to be active and demand various kinds of achievements in the winter. Because the lack of vitamins, sun and heat makes itself felt. Why at the physical level a person feels weakness and indifference to previously significant issues. According to statistics, during this period of time, the level of school performance falls, the efficiency and productivity of work, even among the most active careerists, decrease.
Taking vitamins will help get rid of this condition, sometimes similar to depression in its symptoms. Comfortable atmosphere at home, so that there is an opportunity to relax and sincerely, comfortably spend time with loved ones. As well as outdoor walks. Skiing or sledding, or at least playing snowballs, will inspire and activate the body, bringing it out of sleep mode.
2. Organization
If a lot of ideas and plans arise in your head, but they are not put into practice, if only because there is confusion or fear of acting, then you should work on your organization. Therefore, investigate at what stage you get into a dead end, then it will be easier to fix the problem. For example, start a notebook, writing down the reasons why you decided to postpone the execution of your plan, the difficulties that you did not want to deal with.
Maybe you just don’t know how to set a clear goal, prioritize and plan, as a result of which there is a panic and a desire to quit everything, or do it sometime later? And you were taken and recorded in the ranks of idlers. In this case, check out the article on goal setting, where you will find sensible recommendations and useful tips.
3. Waste of energy
If you are just used to putting off important and not very interesting things for later, then just think about how much more energy you are wasting, holding inside the tension that arose due to dissatisfaction with yourself. And restrained energy is illness, depression, apathy, complexes and lack of interest in life. Therefore, strange as it sounds, it will be much easier and easier if you start acting. Just as soon as an idea came to mind. Otherwise, if you are not distinguished by pedantry and perfectionism, then you will waste all your fuse on reflection, which will turn into fear or depreciation.
4. Is it laziness?
It is necessary to indicate the criteria by which you determine the level of laziness. As they say, everything is known in comparison. For some, it is necessary that a family partner: after a hard day at home in the evenings, he takes care of everyday life, and for someone it is enough that he makes money at all. Try to answer honestly, why did you think that you or your loved one are lazy? That a child or subordinate is not organized and irresponsible? Are your expectations in line with reality?
We often hang labels, not really understanding whether they correspond to reality. For example, you force a child to be more active at school, go to olympiads and competitions, but he does not want this, it is important for him to learn how to build relationships with classmates. But you swear, believing that he is lazy. Maybe, but, as the experience of psychotherapists shows, more often than not, parents have excessive requirements for their children, and if you talk with them closer, it turns out that they are not inactive, but very hardworking and successful, developed children, just their interests and priorities are very differ from their parents.
5.Responsibility
Every adult must take responsibility for their own lives.
But many are afraid of it, especially if they create conditions in which they don’t have to strain, for example, to earn money. Do you know situations when a man sits on the neck of his wife, who disappears at work from morning till night? He seems to be looking for a suitable position and salary, but he can’t find a satisfying one, allowing himself to sleep until lunch and play computer games. It can feel apathy, worry, but at the same time do not change anything.
And no advice on combating laziness will help until he realizes that he is a man, a breadwinner who takes care of his family, and no matter how much he wants, it’s time to start providing at least himself. Starting to take some steps, changes in life will begin to occur, his self-esteem will increase, as well as energy, inspiration for action.
6. Analyze
What in your life is not going the way you would like? Not realizing your dreams, not finding meaning in your work, or not feeling the power or freedom in planning each day — disorganization can be a consequence of such “not caring” for yourself. The psyche will rebel like a teenager, not receiving due attention. It is clear that you will not quit a boring job right away, especially if the family depends on your salary.
But you can diversify your being a little if you start doing what you usually looked for excuses for. For example, sign up for dancing, or English courses or cross-stitching. Starting to gradually change your every day, you will notice that you are changing yourself, attracting new events and emotions into your life.
7. What to do with the child
If you consider a child disorganized and passive, then think, maybe he is simply not interested in learning? All people are different, and approaches to them should also be different, the school system is not very attractive even for an adult. Never compare him with other children, no matter if their performance is higher or lower, because this will cause a completely healthy reaction of the psyche — protest. As a result of which sabotage will be observed.
Better tighten up and come up with tasks that he will be interested in doing. Experiment together, because the main thing is to instill an interest in learning, then questions about laziness will not arise at all.
8.Motivation
At its core, boredom and laziness are stopped excitement, interest. The psychology of a person is such that motivation is important to him, otherwise, without it, there will be no return, and sometimes you won’t get any action at all. Even the most interesting work eventually becomes familiar and routine. So where does the inspiration and desire to work on it come from?
A happy family, if it is stable for a long time, does not bring such vivid emotions as it did at the beginning. Partners are so familiar with each other that they can afford to relax, thinking that the relationship will not fall apart because of this. To understand your motivation, I recommend that you read the article about increasing motivation.
9.Rest
So that there is no resistance to vigorous activity, still allow yourself sometimes to do nothing. Do you remember that forbidden fruit is sweet? The main thing is that it should be dosed and with clear boundaries, otherwise there is a risk of getting carried away and again letting your life go with the flow without making any effort.
10. Sports
Sports and any physical activity will help to get rid of the desire to do nothing forever. If you devote time daily to exercising in the gym, or just exercising, then over time your body will begin to require movements and loads. Yes, and you will always be in good shape, a walk in the park is much more useful than lying on the couch in front of the TV, and it gives you more strength.
Recommendations
- Disorganization can manifest itself due to banal disorder. Moreover, if he is observed on the desktop, then in relation to his life, too. When a pile of garbage accumulates, of course, you don’t want to approach it later, because confusion appears, because you don’t know where to start.
- It’s better to start with the most difficult tasks, and in the morning, even if you don’t get enough sleep. Otherwise, by the evening the body will tune in to rest, and then you will probably postpone urgent matters for tomorrow. Read an article about human biological rhythms, and you will understand that completely different processes occur at different times of the day, and if you break them, you risk bringing yourself to exhaustion, illness due to stress and other difficulties.
- Bring variety into your life. If it is not possible to travel to other countries and cities, go to the park, museum, theater, cinema, and more. The main thing is not to allow routine and monotony.
- The carrot and stick method will always be relevant. Therefore, do not forget to reward yourself even for very small victories over yourself and achievements. And in the case when they did not show willpower, double the load. And then, realizing that later you will have to give it your all, you will not allow yourself to fold with an insignificant task.
Conclusion
And that’s all for today, dear readers! A person who knows his purpose, the meaning of life and knows how to recognize his needs — will effortlessly move towards achieving his goals, despite obstacles and restrictions. Therefore, in the end, I want to recommend another article about the lack of a sense of life, here is the link. Strength and activity to you!
The material was prepared by Zhuravina Alina