How To Stop Being Lazy
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Today I decided that I wanted to discuss laziness, which is also a form of self sabotaging behavior, because let's be real, you are choosing to hold yourself back and give into procrastination. The reason why I started this podcast is not to create a false reality of wanting to achieve happiness all the time, because that is not realistic. However what is realistic and important to understand is that you have control over your own actions and your daily habits every day as well as the way you view yourself does create your overall life. I basically want to guide, educate, support, motivate and help you create a modern, happy and healthy lifestyle for yourself that is totally achievable - only if you are willing to actually put the effort in and make the conscious decision to help yourself. I have made many mistakes in my life, however because of those mistakes, I have learnt and become much stronger. When you make a lot of mistakes, you eventually become good at getting back up again. Mistakes are part of the growing process. Instead of focusing on how many times you have failed. Why not look at those 10 failures as 10 lessons that you know now simply don't work and then change direction.
The key to success, happiness and living a good life, is through persistence. If you have a dream and you think about it every second of the day, if it is something that drives you each day and if it inspires you to become a better person then never give up on it. Keep persisting, keep pushing, keep working towards what you want. Don't allow yourself to hold you back. I believe that everyone deserves a happy and healthy life, only if you are willing to put in the work to achieve it.
The thing about life, is that it will push you until you break, just to see if you are capable of putting yourself back together. Life has seasons and sometimes you simply cannot control the events that take place while you are making plans, however you can control how you respond to what happens and how strong you are to get back up again. There will be good, bad, hard, easy and beautiful moments that we experience through life. What matters is how we take those experiences in our stride and continue to move forward, by not suppressing what we have been through, obviously work through the different emotions you may feel, feel them, learn them, understand them and keep going.
When it gets hard and you experience those low moments, you can question your worth, value and you suddenly feel an immense amount of pressure. During these moments, you may feel so low that you put yourself down. However in these moments, you need to put in that mental work and rise above those negative feelings, build yourself up. You are not alone. By giving up, being lazy, procrastinating and keeping yourself down, you are giving away too much power. You have to be strong.
Let's discuss simple ways
1. Change your perspective and your habits because you are able to accept yourself and still focus on growing at the same time. You are able to acknowledge the pain you are feeling and also notice the amount of joy you feel in your life. You can embrace every part of who you are however you can still have moments of self doubt. You can put in the hard work of self growth and at the same time have days where it feels like too much for you. It is totally okay. When you change your perspective, you basically change your experience and life is all about perspective and how you choose to look at something. Your perspective really is everything because when you are experiencing certain challenges in life, you may not always have control over a situation but what you do have control over is how you view it. For example - when you wake up everyday, you basically have two choices, you can either be positive or negative, an optimist or pessimist. I choose to be positive and I have always chosen to have a more positive perspective on life, no matter what because I have the mentality that I don't want to waste the opportunities I have been given and I don't want to waste my life, I want to make the most of it. I have so much to be grateful for, so sometimes to a fault, I always look for the good in people and in every experience I may encounter. Perspective basically gives us the ability to correctly compare the large with the small and the important with the less important. To grow you need to actually start thinking differently, changing your perception on how you view things in your life. Eliminate habits that are not improving your life and rather choose to create room for more positive habits like waking up early, going to bed at a reasonable time, developing a productive self care routine and so forth.
2. Outline your worth, value and authenticity. Finding yourself is basically equal to actually honoring your own self worth and value. Set healthy boundaries for yourself that makes you feel comfortable. Be authentic and sometimes this concept can be very hard because of social media and the constant comparison however this is also the time to really focus on your own uniqueness. Be you, there is only one you. It can be so easy to morph into a certain beauty standard or physical image that is popular right now or accepted by society as perfect. So why not stand out from the crowd, protect your own inner peace and be yourself. The right people will gravitate towards you, so try to not care so much about the opinions of others.
3. Question everything because whenever you are feeling lost or like you are feeling really down and emotionally depleted, choose to take the time to unplug, reflect, meditate and ask yourself questions. Sometimes what we may be fighting within ourselves is actually not worth the struggle once we properly analyze how we are feeling and try to better understand ourselves. So question your fears, insecurities, limiting beliefs, challenges or the season that you are in currently in your life. When you open yourself up to honesty and transparency, you open yourself up to positive change.
4. Lastly evaluate because in this process of evaluating, you are able to be more compassionate about yourself by paying attention to what you need and how to honor them. You are able to better understand your thoughts and emotions. You also give yourself permission to be imperfect. Letting go of any added pressure you may feel. You are also able to remind yourself of your worth over and over again.
So basically commit yourself to showing up for yourself every day. Commit to habits, routines and rituals that are good for your well-being even during the times when you don't feel up for it. Practice self care and being able to listen to your own needs and learning different ways to meet those needs. Practice self forgiveness for not being perfect because no one is perfect and forgive yourself for falling off track sometimes, that is totally fine - just don't give up yet. Allow yourself to start over as many times as you need, don't restrict your journey to a certain time period, influenced by society. Live your life for you and focus on your own happiness, because when you HEAL, you have access to your POWER.
So how can you overcome laziness?
- Make your goals manageable therefore set realistic goals and don't take on too much because you could become overwhelmed and discouraged.
- Don't expect yourself to be perfect.
- Use positive instead of negative self-talk.
- Create a plan of action. When you have structure, you have purpose.
- Use your strengths. Stop focusing on what you don't have and focus on what you do have.
- Recognize your accomplishments along the way. celebrate your small victories.
- Avoid distraction. remain focused.
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