How to overcome laziness? How to get rid of laziness once and for all for an adult? How to start acting and develop purposefulness in yourself?

You can’t for­bid to live lazi­ly, as well as beau­ti­ful­ly. But to com­bine one with the oth­er is unlike­ly to suc­ceed. To be suc­cess­ful, you have to over­come lazi­ness. And she, the vil­lain, vis­its each of us. Some more often, some less. How to fight back? Let’s try to fig­ure it out.

Lazi­ness is not a dis­ease, not a way of life, not a habit and not a char­ac­ter trait. Lazi­ness is a feel­ing that, like love, can inad­ver­tent­ly strike at any moment.. It does­n’t always become a prob­lem. Some­times a per­son just needs to stop and take a break.

But more often the lack of desire to do some­thing leads to unde­sir­able con­se­quences. And in order to fight such an apa­thet­ic state, first of all, you need to under­stand where the trou­ble came from. Oth­er­wise, prob­lems will grow like a snow­ball. More and more often you will not have time to cope with even the sim­plest tasks, and there­fore soon­er or lat­er you sim­ply will not under­stand where to start. From here, new dif­fi­cul­ties will appear — self-fla­gel­la­tion, guilt.

Then all desires dis­ap­pear, after all, you don’t have time to do any­thing any­way. Fur­ther more — they begin to look for the truth in wine, soon­er or lat­er depres­sion and oth­er side effects of idle­ness come. And here it will be dif­fi­cult to do with­out the help of spe­cial­ists. These are addi­tion­al expens­es — both men­tal and mate­r­i­al. To avoid this, you need to try to cope with the reluc­tance to get up and walk on your own.

There are many fac­tors that influ­ence our reluc­tance to work, study, clean, play sports and go some­where. The most com­mon and banal — a per­son just gets tired. There­fore, if sud­den­ly lazi­ness attacked you, first of all remem­ber the last time you were on vaca­tion. The one that you spent in house­hold chores, mak­ing repairs or plant­i­ng pota­toes in the coun­try, does not count.

Each of us has the right to rest, as well as to work. Often in the mod­ern world, a per­son sim­ply “dri­ves” him­self with work. In order to feel hyper-fatigue, it is not nec­es­sary to load the wag­ons.

Let’s try to under­stand our­selves. Answer some ques­tions hon­est­ly.

• Do you like what you do?
• Do you under­stand what you want to achieve?
• How do you spend your free time?
• Do you actu­al­ly have it?
• What takes the most effort (both phys­i­cal and emo­tion­al)?
• What gives you plea­sure?
• Are you wor­ried about any health prob­lems?
• Do you suf­fer from insom­nia?

• Are you sat­is­fied with your sur­round­ings?
• What or who makes you angry or angry?
• What pre­vents you from doing qual­i­ty work and on time?
• Do you like the city where you live?
• Have you done a rearrange­ment in your home or work­place for a long time?
• When was the last time you washed your cur­tains?
• Are you com­fort­able in the con­di­tions in which you live?
• What exact­ly do you not like?

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, not many of us are ready to quick­ly dis­tin­guish lazi­ness from oth­er rea­sons that inter­fere with doing some­thing. The thing is that they appear in a sim­i­lar way. A per­son feels tired or even drowsy and writes it all off as lazi­ness. Although in real­i­ty, every­thing can be much more seri­ous. The hard­est thing to dis­tin­guish depres­sion from lazi­ness.

We often think that doing noth­ing for a while will help us cope with the prob­lem, but, unfor­tu­nate­ly, this is not always the case. Lis­ten to your­self, it may not be easy for you to cope with work, because you are tor­ment­ed by some kind of men­tal trau­ma. And it is pos­si­ble that it’s time to see a spe­cial­ist. It will help you under­stand the dif­fer­ence between lazi­ness and pro­cras­ti­na­tion. She, too, is a dis­ease that should be treat­ed with the help of a psy­chol­o­gist or psy­chother­a­pist.

The main symp­toms of pro­cras­ti­na­tion are that you just can’t start doing your duties, you put off every­thing until the fifth or tenth cup of cof­fee, you find a lot of oth­er things to do, just not to start a spe­cif­ic task. Lazi­ness is a more all-con­sum­ing feel­ing, it does not put off any one thing, but enslaves labor activ­i­ty in prin­ci­ple. It is eas­i­er to dis­tin­guish between lazi­ness and weak­ness.

Anoth­er impor­tant detail that helps to dis­tin­guish lazi­ness from unwill­ing­ness to do some­thing may lie in dis­sat­is­fac­tion with the activ­i­ty. Maybe you just don’t like what you do, but you don’t have the strength to admit it. To under­stand this in more detail, we take the lists com­piled ear­li­er and re-read the result. Read each item care­ful­ly. This is an anam­ne­sis that you have to study either on your own or with the help of a doc­tor.

If there is a lot of neg­a­tiv­i­ty in the answers, dis­sat­is­fac­tion with one­self and with what sur­rounds, the point is not lazi­ness or not only lazi­ness. Most like­ly, you need to change a lot in your life. If every­thing or at least almost every­thing suits you, but you still don’t want to do any­thing, then, most like­ly, lazi­ness has real­ly come to you and it’s time to send it out.

Over­com­ing lazi­ness is no more dif­fi­cult than cur­ing a mild cold. But before you get rid of her, you need to look at her “face”. It is nec­es­sary to under­stand what allowed her to win, to gain a tem­po­rary advan­tage. To do this, we return to your lists again. There’s def­i­nite­ly no vis­i­ble cause for con­cern? If not, you just need to pull your­self togeth­er and stop being lazy. If there are dis­turb­ing moments, then try to remove, or even bet­ter — com­plete­ly erad­i­cate annoy­ing fac­tors from life.

Only after you man­age to get rid of every­thing unnec­es­sary, bring­ing suf­fer­ing, it will be pos­si­ble to change your own life. Putting it in order with­out effort will not work. You need to have a strong enough moti­va­tion. To over­come fears and doubts, try some meth­ods.

• Imag­ine what will hap­pen if you don’t do some work. It does­n’t mat­ter if it’s men­tal or phys­i­cal. This will real­ly cre­ate prob­lems, and per­haps noth­ing will change in your life from this. Then feel free to leave this mat­ter and move on to more impor­tant ones.
• Divide all things which were post­poned for some rea­son, in order of impor­tance.
• Think about what made you put things off. You may have missed some­thing impor­tant last time. Instead of doing what is real­ly nec­es­sary, time wast­ed on non­sense.
• Cal­cu­late how much time, effort, mon­ey you have lost due to an attack of lazi­ness.
• If you real­ize that you missed the moment, it’s time to catch up with it. First, let’s go with a job test.

Mak­ing your­self work is not always easy. There are many rea­sons for this. It is pos­si­ble that the exist­ing work sched­ule does not cor­re­spond to your actu­al bio­log­i­cal rhythm. If you are a “lark”, then try to do all the dif­fi­cult things in the morn­ing, do not be dis­tract­ed in the morn­ing even for a cup of cof­fee. And after lunch, do less ener­gy-inten­sive tasks. Such a rhythm will be opti­mal and com­fort­able.

If you are a “night owl” and the head begins to work effec­tive­ly only clos­er to noon, do not overex­ert your­self ear­ly in the morn­ing. Do the easy things first, leave the big ones for lat­er. In your case, the morn­ing of the evening is not wis­er. You do not need to be equal to col­leagues, mon­i­tor your own con­di­tion. Also, clean up your desk. Remove all unnec­es­sary, dis­tract­ing from the per­for­mance of direct duties. Free up your per­son­al space, let fresh air in there.

Alter­nate dif­fer­ent types of work — men­tal, cre­ative, phys­i­cal. If your job respon­si­bil­i­ties do not unload mail, it does not mat­ter. Get your­self some exer­cise. Ten squats or bends won’t take much of your time, but your strength will come. Arrange com­pe­ti­tions. If you do not want to com­pete with col­leagues or they do not show such a desire, come up with a one-man tour­na­ment. Be sure to announce a reward for the vic­to­ry. As a prize, buy a choco­late bar or a cer­tifi­cate to a beau­ty salon. But use them only when you real­ly reach new heights.

Try to sur­round your­self with suc­cess­ful peo­ple, losers with their eter­nal prob­lems and com­plaints are bet­ter to dri­ve away from your­self. In this way, you will save your­self from unnec­es­sary oth­er peo­ple’s prob­lems and begin to be charged with the pos­i­tive ener­gy of pos­i­tive and pur­pose­ful friends, col­leagues, and just casu­al acquain­tances. You your­self will not notice how your abil­i­ty to work will increase sig­nif­i­cant­ly.

Before you get out of bed in the morn­ing, men­tal­ly go over your to-do list for the day. It’s impos­si­ble to do every­thing, and most like­ly you don’t need to. Before you do some­thing, deter­mine how impor­tant it is to do it right now. Try to del­e­gate some of the house­hold chores to oth­er fam­i­ly mem­bers.. Chil­dren can also wash the dish­es, or maybe it’s time to buy a dish­wash­er. Try to make your life as com­fort­able as pos­si­ble. Don’t waste mon­ey on this. Believe me, all these costs will pay off with inter­est and give you strength to per­form more impor­tant tasks.

Anoth­er tip — try com­bin­ing mul­ti­ple tasks. Cook cab­bage soup and at the same time check the child’s lessons, home­work. Let’s go from the room to the kitchen, grab all the cups on the way, placed in dif­fer­ent cor­ners of the house. While vac­u­um­ing, lis­ten to an audio­book. Many things can be done at the same time. You just need to show inge­nu­ity and resource­ful­ness.

Anoth­er impor­tant pos­tu­late: lazi­ness - thing con­ta­gious like an epi­dem­ic. If a spouse lies on the couch with a jar of foam all day, then the wife will soon­er or lat­er throw a rag and lose inter­est in her affairs. If the mis­sus spends hours on emp­ty con­ver­sa­tions with her girl­friends, then her oth­er strong half will also begin to be lazy. As soon as you see that lazi­ness has vis­it­ed the house, dri­ve it away. Keep your part­ner busy with some­thing. To get start­ed, ask to throw out the trash or go for bread.

The same applies to chil­dren. The child refus­es to sit down for text­books? Explain to him why he needs to do his home­work, call for help from rel­a­tives. But don’t over­do it. Per­haps your house­hold is real­ly tired. Learn to dis­tin­guish one from the oth­er.

Before you take action, make a plan of action. It is best to do this the night before. At the same time, do not for­get to sep­a­rate the wheat from the chaff, the impor­tant from the unim­por­tant, and check with your inter­nal bio­log­i­cal clock. You don’t have to do every­thing at once. So you will not see inter­me­di­ate results, and the like­li­hood that you will give up soon­er or lat­er will be high. Remem­ber — it’s impos­si­ble to do every­thing.

When sched­ul­ing work Leave time for the unex­pect­ed. Not every­thing in our life can be fore­seen. Let force majeure not become an obsta­cle in your way. The secrets of moti­va­tion and self-dis­ci­pline are quite sim­ple. First, you need to stop being afraid of dif­fi­cul­ties. Often the small­est fail­ures cause uncer­tain­ty. Did not have time to com­plete the task on time — the next time you are over­come by fear that this will hap­pen again.

Every­one has the right to make a mis­take. Nev­er stop there. After com­plet­ing the work, be sure to check whether it is pos­si­ble to add some­thing to it or improve the result.

Some­times it seems that a solu­tion can­not be found. Step aside for a minute, look at the sit­u­a­tion from a dif­fer­ent angle. There is always a way out. Do not be afraid to ask for help from col­leagues, friends, house­hold mem­bers. If you feel that fatigue cov­ers, give the body peace. Sit for at least ten min­utes in silence, try not to think about any­thing. After that, find­ing a solu­tion and cop­ing with even the most dif­fi­cult task will be much eas­i­er.

Plan not only busi­ness, but also rest. The vaca­tion begins from the moment the selec­tion of tick­ets and hotels begins. Do not clut­ter up your life with unnec­es­sary deeds, emp­ty talk and argu­ments. But bets are wel­come. You can even make them with your­self. But it is bet­ter to have a part­ner in this busi­ness. Promise your­self or a friend to do some­thing you could­n’t do by a cer­tain date. Ask some­one to keep that promise alive.

If, despite all efforts, it is still dif­fi­cult to con­cen­trate on the task at hand and devel­op a sense of pur­pose, set a timer. This method is also called “pomodoro”. The name and the method itself were invent­ed by the Ital­ian stu­dent Francesco Cir­il­lo, who could not under­stand where his time was going. He used an ordi­nary kitchen timer in the form of a toma­to, wound it for 25 min­utes, dur­ing which he was not dis­tract­ed for a sec­ond from per­form­ing a par­tic­u­lar exer­cise. Soon his busi­ness took off. A spon­ta­neous time man­age­ment tech­nique has become one of the most com­mon in time man­age­ment. It allows you to live active­ly and become a tru­ly pro­duc­tive per­son in a short time.

Chang­ing your life and atti­tude to work is not as dif­fi­cult as it seems. Once and for all, dis­card every­thing unnec­es­sary. It seems to an adult that it is easy for him to give use­ful advice. In prac­tice, it is dif­fi­cult for one­self to accept a few impor­tant and at the same time sim­ple rules.

• To improve per­for­mance, do not over­es­ti­mate the bar.
• A pro­fes­sion­al employ­ee knows how to answer “no” even to the most tempt­ing offers.
• Do not take on the work of the entire team. Do not take on your shoul­ders all the house­hold chores.

Human psy­chol­o­gy is such that he always strives for more. How­ev­er, the the­sis that there is nev­er too much mon­ey has been crit­i­cized more than once. You need to be able to stop. At least some­times think about what you will tell your grand­chil­dren about your life. It will be inter­est­ing for them to lis­ten to how you worked tire­less­ly, left all your health at work? Rather, they will be more inspired by sto­ries about your won­der­ful trav­els, roman­tic events, dis­cov­er­ies. Do not wor­ship either out of lazi­ness or work.

Pay more atten­tion to your­self. Make it a rule to vis­it the gym or swim­ming pool once or twice a week. Include going to the the­ater, cin­e­ma, and muse­ums on your to-do list. Sleep at least sev­en to eight hours. Be out­doors more. At least occa­sion­al­ly, instead of gen­er­al clean­ing of the house, arrange field trips with the whole fam­i­ly or with friends. Find some­thing you enjoy: danc­ing, sewing, knit­ting, hik­ing, any­thing that brings you plea­sure.

Learn to take your mind off the dai­ly grind. And then you will have enough strength to keep lazi­ness out of your life and into the lives of the peo­ple around you. The first step is always the most dif­fi­cult, but each sub­se­quent step will be eas­i­er and eas­i­er, it will be easy to over­come lazi­ness.

There is anoth­er way to counter lazi­ness. It is also called the 5 sec­ond rule.