Hey there fellow procrastin8r. You’ll notice that I haven’t posted content in a couple weeks. You’re probably wondering what happened, if I’m still alive, still making content, etc.

Well, I’ll tell you what. I’m still here. I’m still alive. At least last time I checked. But it’s true, I skipped a couple weeks of posting the otherwise weekly blog and podcast.

That may be a bit frustrating for you, as a follower of my content to all the sudden not have the content you’ve come to expect on a consistent basis. I mean for about a half a decade, you’ve come to look forward to a new blog on Wednesday and a new podcast episode on Friday from me. Then all the sudden…it just stopped.

And granted, I probably should have given you a bit of a head’s up about putting a pause on the content production for a while instead of just flat out up and disappearing without a trace.

I promise in the future, I’ll provide better communication about my disappearances. 



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​Just STOP

The best break is when you just up and decide to take one, right then and there.

I wasn’t planning on taking a break from content production. It wasn’t some sort of scheduled vacation on my calendar. I just said “you know what? Fuck it! I ain’t doin’ that shit today.”

And it’s that “fuck it” attitude that really brings about that sensation of relief from tension. Like you can feel a boulder fall off your shoulder. Metaphorically, of course. I imagine you ain’t walking around with a literal granite stone.

Now I have to address something here. See, you know I always preach about procrastinating with purpose and not to give into that “Impulsive Idleness”.

You must deliberately decide what to procrastinate on and not just “wind up” doing anything is what I say. And so it seems quite hypocritical for me now to claim, quite the opposite and say “the best break is when you just up and decide to take one right then and there”.

Well, my friend, let me remind you how I did also  to “never say never” and “always avoid saying always”. That principle applies to Procrastinating with Purpose too.

You see, you don’t *always* have to Procrastinate with Purpose, nor should you. Sometimes you can be impulsively idle.

I know. I said it. After all the criticism I had against it. I can hear the haters gettin ready for a riot.

Sometimes though. That’s key, dude.

On occasion, you can do the lazy thing instead of the productive thing when you had in fact planned on doing the productive thing.

Indulge yourself a little. It’s kind of like how a gym athlete will eat a very healthy diet full of fruits and veggies, but have a “cheat day” once in a while where they splurge on ice cream, burgers, pizza, and fries.

It’s okay to have your “cheat day” and be, dare I say, “unmotivated", once in a while.

Of course, most days you should have a healthy dose of laziness. You should Procrastinate with an actual freaking purpose and not just wind up slacking off for no better reason than you don’t feel like it.

But dude, sometimes “I don’t feel like it” is enough of an excuse not to do it. Sometimes you gotta treat yo’ self, ya know. You just gotta give yourself a genuine break and allow yourself to slack off once in a while.

As long as you practice laziness in a “healthy” way most times, I’d say procrastinating the thing you had planned on doing is OKAY once in a while in my book.

Just don’t go overboard with it. Don’t make it a habit.

If the gym athlete makes “cheat day” every day, splurging on junk food. Well, he ain’t gonna be much of an athlete very long.

Likewise, if you make your “slack off” day every day,splurging your time on wasteful things. Well, ya ain’t gonna be much of a PRO-crastin8r.










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Time Off Means Time Off

You’re not *really* taking a break if you spend all your time thinking about what you gotta do when you “get back to it.”

You have to pretend it doesn’t exist for a while. Think of it like an old job you used to have. You wouldn’t worry about having to stock shelves the next day because that was your job as a teenager, now would you?

Think of it like that. Think of it a “it’s no longer my responsibility.”

That’s really the mindset you need to achieve here. You have to mind fuck yourself and tell yourself you are no longer responsible for whatever sort of task or duty you may be thinking of.

Or better yet, think “it’s already taken care of”. Or maybe even “It will get done EVENTUALLY.”

Just don’t think you have to get it done right now. It can be done later, if it even gets done at all. Ultimately, you don’t even have to do it anyway. It ain’t your responsibility. So why you worried about it?

If you’re not responsible for something, or you believe you aren’t anyway, well then it becomes a matter of “Well, I *could* do that, but I’m not going to” as opposed to “I absolutely must fucking do this or I DIE!”

It really ain’t a life or death situation. I mean, unless your job is hunting bears or protecting nuke codes or something. But really, we often treat our responsibilities like it’s the end of the world if we DON’T do them.

But I promise you, the world ain’t gonna blow up if you don’t file that report. We ain’t gonna have an apocalypse if you choose not to vacuum the floor today. Besides, with the verge of another world war and a global pandemic, we’re already living in an apocalypse so it’s too late to start one!

Anyway, when I took my break from content creation, I didn’t visit  the website. I didn’t open my audio editor. I didn’t even look at social media. It was completely off my mind.

So too, you must leave behind your obligations and just embrace your laziness. Fully. Completely.

Never take your responsibilities *too* seriously. Remember, the procrastin8r is never *too* much of anything. He lives a life of balance.

Do yourself a favor and take a break from whatever you feel like you have to do.And as always, take it easy, take it *real* easy.




N8

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​I always talk about how you should embrace your inner sloth and be lazy. And one might assume that means you don’t accomplish anything and life and wind up a big fat loser who does nothing but sit on the couch all day.

There’s a difference though. There’s a fine line between being lazy and being unmotivated.

See whereas being unmotivated means you aren’t willing to budge at all. Being lazy means you will move….just very, very slowly.

Being unmotivated means you’ll never get it done. Being lazy means you’ll get it done EVENTUALLY.

Laziness is about practicality. It’s about fueling innovation. It’s about minimizing effort and maximizing results, a phrase I say all the time, but seriously to be lazy is to have the ability to get things done efficiently, not worry, and take things slow.

We’re gonna take a look at today what laziness is compared to unmotivation and perhaps how to “motivate” yourself to be lazy. And without further ado, let’s dive…right into it.
















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Feeling like a Loser does NOT make you Lazy


Being lazy is for fucking winners. Winners are lazy people. I’m telling you. Look at all the billionaires.

Are they the ones schlepping 9 to 5? Are they the ones working the coal mines? Are they the ones grinding their freaking asses off?

Hell to the no.

You know what they’re doing?

Sittin’ on their damn fancy yacht sippin cold cocktails.

Yeah. That’s about as lazy as you can get.

You see though, they get other people to do the work for them. They get their money to do the work for them.

You have to believe this. You really have to believe that if you can’t personally make it happen, you can find and lead people who are capable and willing.

You’re just one person. And even if you were the most diligent human being on earth, you’d still be limited to what one single individual can accomplish alone.

Big things happen with big groups of people. That’s how the people at the top did it, sittin’ back n tellin’ people what they want done. They did it. So can you.

And you may think “Oh well I’m not really good with people.”

See what you’re doing dude? That ain’t lazy. That ain’t shy. That’s just some sort of self esteem issue.

You have to stop giving a FUCK about what other people think of you. That’s really the core of the issue here. You’re too self conscious about other people’s opinions.

Who cares what they think! That’s just like, their opinion man.

You have to be willing to hear disagreement and face rejection. It really ain’t a big deal. Stop making it out to be one.

And I ain’t sayin you have to be this highly charismatic playboy or whatever. You just gotta know some social basics.

I recommend listening to radio. Just listen. You’ll naturally catch on to a good flow of conversation and how to have one.

And that’s really all leadership is -- having conversation with people, relating to them, and being able to suggest what will get done and how.

You’re demanding about it. You’re not a rude belligerent boss. You’re just laid back, calm, and respectful.

Calm. That’s kind of the key to handling social situations. Just relax, dude. The only reason you may be experiencing any sort of social anxiety is because you’re not being present.

You’re in your own head.  You’re thinking about what other people are thinking of you, how you look,  how you sound. 

Quit yo worryin, boss. Take a deep breath and lead people like a boss. You are a boss. You’re a winner. Let that idea sink in your head. It’ll help you relax, when your nerves are feeling on edge about approaching people.





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Saying to Yourself “Can’t or Won’t Does NOT Make You Lazy

Again, dude, that’s called being unmotivated.

“Can’t” or “Won’t” are not part of procrastin8r’s dictionary.

You gotta cut those sort of negative words out of your life. Seriously, forget ‘em. I can’t do this. I won’t do that. Stop.

You need to chill. Nothing’s a big deal. Everything can be done one little step at a time.  Everything can be done eventually.

Look man, I know sometimes things get hard. Things don’t always go your way and it makes it difficult to even try.

Trying is part of the lazy process. Try. You know what that means, don’t you?

It means putting in a half assed effort .After all, half ass is better than no ass, am I right?

Take your time. Slow n’ steady. But never say never. You can’t say can’t. And you won’t say won’t. Capeesh?



Wrapping Up:

Alright. I think we covered enough here today, and I hope you have a better understanding on the differences between being unmotivated and being lazy.

And hey, you were at least motivated enough to read up until this point, so that’s saying something.

Just remember, that the next time you’re feeling that aching feeling of not being able to do something that it’s all good. You can do it. Just take your time and make do…eventually!



Take it easy,




N8

Reflect and Respond. Don’t React.

As I mentioned, your emotions are valid. But…and that’s a huge BUT…while your emotions are in fact valid, your emotions do NOT validate wrongful or hurtful actions.

While what you’re feeling is okay, that does not make it okay to hurt yourself or others.

It’s not okay to insult someone in anger. It’s not okay to flat out go around being a jerk or d-bag just because you’re in a shitty mood. No.

See, that’s all reaction.  You’re reacting to your emotions. Your letting them control you by doing crazy things like yelling like a banshee.

Feeling your emotions is one thing, but letting them loose is another.

Although I did indeed state that you shouldn’t hold your emotions back, that doesn’t give you the right, that doesn’t justify unruly actions on your part.

Feeling unruly does not mean you act unruly. You got it?

Control your emotions, not by holding them back or pretending to wear a fake smile.

But control them by being consciously aware of them and being able to express how you feel in a calm and mature manner. It’s the lazy way.
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Be an adult. Not a toddler.

There are a lot of Karens walking around nowadays that are really just toddlers in adult bodies, never having learned how to control their own emotions and instead making the entire rest of the world responsible for their emotions.

Now that we covered what to do in an emotional trauma “in the moment”, let’s take a look at the aftermath.

The aftermath of emotional trauma can in some ways be worse than the actual event itself. 

Mourning over the loss of a loved one or regretting your mistakes in a relationship after a break up, that sort of thing, can be more painful than the initial death or break up was in the first place.

And that, my friend is why you have to realize…





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Worrying only makes things worse

Worrying multiplies any sort of stress or pain you may be experiencing tenfold!

The more you regret, the more you lament, the more you worry and ruminate over bad things in your life or mistakes you’ve made in the past, the more pain you’re going to feel.

It’s picking a scab and never letting it fully heal, essentially. What you’re doing is bringing the pain to surface and making it bleed again.

Look, bad shit happens. And you know what? Sometimes it is your fault. Sometimes you fuck up.

But just because you fuck up does NOT make YOU a fuck up!

Being honest with yourself in the moment and saying “you know what, this sucks”, or “you know what I fucked up.”

But holding on to that bitter feeling, letting it linger, letting it haunt you. Well that quite frankly is gonna wear you the fuck out.

That’s what leads to depression -- constantly feeding yourself negative emotion, putting yourself in the habit of metaphorically slitting your wrists and making yourself feel pain again.

The brain is a habit machine.And you can easily put it in the habit of thinking about negative thoughts if you’re not careful.

But it’s okay. You have control. You can choose to move on from the traumatic past slow n’ steady by focusing on things you appreciate more so than things you distaste.

You see, it’s not so much about staying positive, but about staying…stable. It’s about being okay.

It’s about recognizing that things aren’t always perfect, but being able to cope with shit when shit hits the fan. It’s about balance.

Besides man…





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Learn to Let Go (and go with the flow)

Eventually is the key word that can help you cope with whatever shit you’re going through or went through.

Because you know what? Eventually things will get better. Eventually there will be a light at the end of the tunnel.
That’s not overly eager positive thinking. That’s just reality. There are ups and downs. Life is a roller coaster.

Where there are dips, there’s also great heights.

That person you thought you couldn’t live without? Look at you now! Livin n’ shit! Good for you.

That opportunity you let pass? Well, man think of all the opportunities you DID get for not taking it.

You see, dude. You can’t live life in the past. You have to let the past be where it belongs. And where does it belong? 

Well, in the past of course!

​Fuck it!

Live for today. One day, one step, at a time. 

Leave your worry behind and just keep moving. Slow n’ steady.



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You’re likely to believe that.

I mean look at you. You’ve got bills to pay, mouths to feed. You’ve got duties. You’ve got a real life! …to take care of.

All the meanwhile you have a lot of things you WANT to do, but feel like you CAN’T do because of all the things you HAVE to do.

And you’ll probably express this sentiment with a common expression that goes as follows:

“I’m too busy” or “I don’t have the time”

Look, man, let me make something clear to you: You HAVE the time.

You do.

See, the way you gotta see this is there’s TIME…. And there’s what you do with it.
Capeesh? 
It’s real simple. There’s time and what you do with it.

None of this “I don’t have it” crap! Get the fuck outta here, man!

We all have time, dude.

Now, unlike money, for example, as a resource, time is not something you just sort of win the birth lottery in to be born in a lot of wealth.

You know, a poor man has as much time as a rich man. We all have the same 24 hours in a day and it’s not arbitrarily dependent on how much you “own”.

One could argue though that time is money and that a poor man must spend a lot more time working than a rich man in order to cover just the basic necessities, while a rich man can spend more time in leisure, since his bills can easily be taken care of with his fat fucking wallet.

Valid point here. I’m not gonna lie. No doubt, a rich man probably has a lot more so called “free” time than a poor man, due to the very nature of the fact that he simply doesn’t have to work very much in order to pay his bills.

But man, look what I want you to get, what I want you to really grasp is that if we look at something like paying bills or showing up to work, for example -- things you supposedly “have to” do. Again, in order to make ends meet or whatever.

The things is…you don’t have to do them.

You DO NOT have to do any of that shit.

Take life slow.
 
Take it one breath at a time, one moment at a time. Really bask in the beauty of it all.

Otherwise, you’ll be sittin’ there all grouchy in wrinkles thinking to yourself “How in the hell did I get this old?”

I think one of the reasons there IS such a stigma against aging and old people is because I think our collective consciousness is aware of the fact that we AREN’T aware of just how swiftly the pace of life moves.

We’re completely oblivious to what’s happening around us until we look back with nostalgia in our eye and say “Man, I miss the good ole days. I miss benign a kid. I miss being in college. I miss dating so n’ so. I miss spending time with whats her face.”

The good ole days, the good ole days. Man, the good ole days wasn’t THEN…it’s NOW. 





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​The only difference between being a kid and being an adult is that you have to parent yourself. You have to be your own “mom” or “dad” telling you “No, don’t eat ice cream for dinner at 3 in the morning.” 

I mean, what’s stopping you? Who’s stopping you? You’re the adult. You get to make the decisions here.

It’s fascinating. Your whole life decisions were basically made for you and now you get to make your own decisions. Even if they’re bad ones, YOU’RE responsible for them. You can’t blame it on your mother or father.

Look man getting older doesn’t necessarily mean you’re getting wiser. It just means you’ve took more trips around the sun.

Sometimes you gotta sit back n’ reflect on all of this, ya know. You gotta really look at your life and how this all comes together.

And of course, remember that you die. Don’t be sittin there as an old man or woman looking back at the times of yesteryear, wishing things haven’t changed.
You’re going to change. The people you know are going to change. Things are going to change.

Appreciate the process.

Look, one day I’m gonna be old. Well, at least a helluva lot older than I am now. And so are you.

You can either let all this life pass you by and look back with some sort of regret or nostalgia, deeply longing for the past.

Or you can take the lazy path and be in the present TODAY. Be appreciative about what’s happening RIGHT NOW. Don’t rush life on by. Take it one. Step. at. A. Time.

I mean already, you know one day you’re going to look back to today, as in the current circumstances in your life right now, and deeply desire to have kept it  -- the relationships you have, the places you get to visit, and all the moments that happen.

You already do that now. There are moments you look back upon, wishing you had knew it was the good ole days before the good ole days were over.

They’re not over. They’re happening right now as we speak.




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Seriously, every single day is an opportunity to actually freaking LIVE. Not just go through the motions or ride on by, but live, actually live.

Take it nice n’ slow, man. Abide, dude!

And don’t let age bring you down. We all do it. Especially when there’s such a stigma against aging -- all this anti-aging creams and pills you can take.

Look at it this way, if you choose to live your life, as in actually consciously be aware of what’s happening and find the little things to appreciate, then the older you get, the more you have to appreciate. Embrace getting old. Love it!

My mom is literally at the age where she’s the “old lady” that young kids help cross the street. She told me how quite literally a boy asked if she needed help crossing the street.

Now at first, she admitted she felt insulted, like “Am I really that age? Do I really look that old?” But then she decided to embrace it.

She calls it a “perk” of getting old. Like no one looks at you or cares if you make it across the street or not, until I suppose you reach that old age, where people are willing to hold your hand.

Well then again, the same happens when your a tiny kid, with your parents or nanny holding your hand to cross the street. But from like twelve onwards, you’re on your own, kid!

Crossing the street, that’s a metaphor. No one helps you face challenges or dodge obstacles, like moving vehicles. You’ve gotta navigate the streets of life yourself.

But come a certain age and people are willing to lend out a helping hand. So yeah, there are “perks” to getting old. Don’t fear it or worry about it. 

Don’t worry is the lazy mantra, anyways. Embrace it. Love it. Enjoy it. Abide.

Everyone says that life seems to go by so fast, that the days keep comin’. And the older you get, the more this rings true.
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Wait what? Ha!

You know it’s funny whenever we hear the phrase “adult stuff” we either think of something dirty or of something boring.

Are you kidding me? You can do all the stuff you love as a kid. And guess what? No curfew. No boundaries.

You’re free to do what you want. You’re free to abide. You’re free to…well, for lack of a better word…LIVE!

And perhaps you tell yourself “Oh no, I got this aching back. I can’t play baseball anymore” or whatever.

Are you really or are you just telling yourself that?

And hey, maybe you have reached the age where you’re physically incapable of doing some of the things that you enjoy.

But hey, you enjoy relaxing, right? An old body appreciates lying down more than anything.

And a LAZY old body? Well, that’s just euphoria!

The point I’m trying to make here is that aging is inevitable. Dying is inevitable.

But just because you die one day doesn’t mean you have to be dead before you’re dug in a grave.





Take it easy,



N8

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This is about establishing freedom for yourself. This is about being your own boss. This is about laziness and all the potential it has to be. When I say “this”, I mean everything we do here, everything we talk about. Fundamentally, the goal here is to escape the corporate work slave mind and enter one of freedom -- the lazy mindset.

Now that said, we do cover the basis on what this “mindset” is. I mean, heck just last week we were talking about “the light side” of lazy, and how laziness can actually be a good thing. But every once in a while I like to dig back to the roots of what this blog/podcast was originally all about and that is of course online money-making.

Making money from the couch is what we do here. We’re lazy procrastin8rs and it's within our mantra to find the easy way to do things, including but not limited to earning an income.  Gone are the days where you gotta follow the typical corporate work structure. Gone are the days where you gotta grind your ass off 9 to 5. Gone are the days where you got a boss screaming down your neck.

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​The NFT space is just in its infant stage right now and it’s only going to keep growing and maturing.

It’s in your best interest to start doing your own research, to learn about these Play to Earn games and NFT marketplaces, because I’m telling you, that’s where the future is headed.

Now I want to point out that I did write  a whole blog article, as well as recorded an entire podcast episode dedicated to a play to earn platform called “Level-Up Gaming”, which was a website where you could earn “LVLUP” tokens, a real cryptocurrency built on the Binance Smart Chain by playing online games, like their Pac-Man clone called Pacotto.

Unfortunately, the company recently announced on their Telegram that the website will be closing, due to lack of funds in the rewards pool.

Makes sense. I mean, you can’t design your business around giving free tokens away. That’s just not a sustainable or even practical business plan.

Why am I telling you this? Well, I just want to make it clear that a “play-to-earn” game is NO guarantee that you’ll make money.  There’s ALWAYS a risk involved and you could quite possibly end up losing.

Another reason I bring Level Up gaming up is because one of the reasons I don’t like to cover *specific* programs is due to the very nature of online money-making; programs tend to close their doors faster than you can say “but I didn’t even get to make a profit.” Seriously, it’s just the way this industry works. Even though this blockchain technology is new, the basic premise remains the same. Nothing guaranteed and there’s always a risk involved.

I mean most start ups, online or not, wind up bankrupt and out of business within the first two years.

But oftentimes because of this rather “ghosting” nature of online money-making programs, I end up putting in a lot of time creating content about it, only to watch it soon disappear shortly after.

Another example is PerkTV, which was an app that paid you for watching videos. They had a whole “Perk” debit card and everything. It was totally legit! That company shut down though.

See, you when I share with you an online money making website or app, you have to keep in mind that it’s nothing permanent. Ya, you can’t rely on that website or app always being around to provide you income.

​You have to KNOW how to search for good profitable programs ON YOUR OWN. And that’s really what I want you to be able to do and take away from this. You know, I want you to be your own dude and abide, so to speak.

But listen,  it seems you guys like when I do reviews on specific programs, so I will continue to do so as we move forward

Like I said though, I’ll cover Gods Unchained and maybe a few others in the future.

I’m just letting you know up front that because of the nature of this industry (online money-making), some of my content becomes “stale” in a sense and sort of just…irrelevant.


I promise you that as of writing or as of publishing, the programs I talk about *are* actually paying. That may not always be the case, but I’m not gonna write about something that’s NOT paying. So yeah, while some things I wrote about (in the past) are not paying any more, they were in fact paying at some point.

Now I got you thinking. All these points I made about how programs of online money-making close all the time, so the question that may pop up in your head is

Is NFT gaming something sustainable? Or is it just a waste of time?

Well to that I say, the time you enjoy wasting is NOT wasted time! Haha

But seriously. I do believe that NFT games do hold potential for a lot of profit.

Is every single “play-to-earn” game going to make you bank? 

No…of course not!

In fact, MOST games in the play-to-earn space are going to be utter shit. MOST of them are going to stop running within a few months. That’s just how it is.

I mean it’s just like how most of the games on the Google Play store or Apple store absolutely suck.

Anyway, that all said, I put together a short list of things to look out for that I personally think will allow a play-to-earn game to “make it”, that is remain profitable for players (and not just the developers) for a long sustainable amount of time.

And without further ado, let’s dive…right into it!

2. A Strong in-Game Economy
While second on the list, this is probably equally as important as having fun gameplay.

It doesn’t matter how fun the game is if the economy of the game is ripped to shreds.

Developers are beginning to realize that they can’t just be “game-makers” and programmers, they have to be economists.

One of Level-Ups downfalls for example, while the games they made definitely had a “fun factor” -- you really can’t say Pac Man is boring -- they were minting new coins, but not really offering a reason to spend or otherwise burn the token.

There needs to be some sort of “burn mechanic” in a solid P2E game, where players are incentivized to spend their crypto token on in-game assets.

I look at (non P2E) games like RuneScape and World of Warcraft.

MMORPGs like these  are notorious for having well running in-game economies. They have real supply and demand, like an actual real world economy. Releasing a new boss increases the price of potions and food so people could survive and take down the boss

 In fact, one of my first experiences “market trading” was flipping items on the Grand Exchange in RunesScape.

I think once a P2E game comes that has such a well-built in-game economy like our old MMORPG ancestors, it’s really gonna fill the pockets of players. Illuvium is a project I’m looking at,and it’s a full 3D open world Pokemon inspired MMORG.

An economy works extremely well with trading card games. I mean the whole nature of the game is buying, selling, and trading your way to the top and creating a powerful deck. That’s why I think we’re gonna see something like the aforementioned Gods Unchained really hit the top in these P2E games. Already, some of the rare cards are selling for thousands of dollars worth in their native token “GODS”.

There has to be items or collectibles that players want to get. There has to be loot in some fashion that’s only obtainable by “burning” or spending your crypto in the game. That’s what’s really going to set a P2E game above the rest.

Are players trading items in the game? And if so, are they incentivized to use the in-house currency/crypto to get it?

BombCrypto is another P2EI talked about, where the only thing you can do with their in-house/native token is mint new heroes. That’s not enough to flesh out a full economy.

Players only want to cash out their earnings as quickly as possible. The result? Well BCOIN (the native BombCrypto currency) plummeted from $7 to just about 50 cents as of writing.

Now the developers (of BombCrypto) do plan on adding a new story mode, cosmetics, and skill resets as burn mechanics to encourage players to spend their token in the game instead of just sell what they earn on the crypto market. They also greatly reduced the rewards.

Like I said, developers are coming to the hard realization that they have to be real economists and fight with supply and demand. Having players mint new tokens without incentive to spend them isn’t sustainable in the long-term. 

There has to be a reason to keep the token IN THE GAME.

The key is to keep players trading the game currency within the game itself rather than on the market, kind of like how people trade gp for items on RuneScape.

My tokens that I acquire should offer me benefits or resources or some sort of loot within the game itself and not just be an asset to immediately sell on the market.

This does sort of tie in with the “fun factor” too because after all, if the game is fun enough, people are going to want to keep playing. And if they want to keep playing, well that means the community is likely to stick around and unlock game features or assets with their coin, instead of just cashing out and going.
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What does it mean to be lazy?

A good question.

Of course, if you ask that to nearly anyone, they’ll tell you it means being unmotivated and energetic; it means lacking any sort of ambition or will to do anything, yet alone something productive; it means wasting time….or something to that effect.

There’s such a bad social stigma about being lazy, and people naturally are critical about any form of laziness. You can’t blame them, though. I mean, it’s just sort of the culture of this “work ‘til you die' ' structure we’re all raised in.

Just like the world would have you believe that wolves are these cruel feral animals with pure evil intent, so too would the world have you believe that laziness is the absolute worst personality trait one could ever develop.

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​​The whole point I’m trying to make here with this little wolf anecdote is that “bad guys” aren’t always really that bad. That is to say, things that we’re told are bad 

It’s true wolves have sharp fangs, but that doesn’t necessarily make them inherently evil. Likewise, it’s true that being “lazy” involves acting rather passive, but that doesn’t necessarily means it's unproductive or wasteful of them to do so.

The definition of the word “lazy” goes much deeper than what’s on the surface. Just like how wolves are actually friendly creatures, procrastin8rs are actually friendly creatures too.

 That’s what I want to talk about today.

I want to introduce to you, or perhaps recap for you if you’ve been following my blog and are familiar with my content, what *exactly* It means to be lazy, because being lazy is so much more than sittin’ around being a lethargic piece of shit, waste of space, as the rest of society would have you believe.
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Just like all things in life, especially when it comes to personal attributes, there’s a bit of a light side and dark side. I mean you take being hard-working, for example. Certainly there’s the light side of getting things done with punctuality, completing goals,  and being active.

But you never really heard the dark side of that.  You never hear about the dark side of being such a hardworking go-getter.

For example, spending all your time at work means you're always “too busy” to find time to spend quality time with family or friends, it means you’re constantly moving and never stop to smell the roses, so to speak. 

Look, you always hear about the light side of being hard-working and never really hear about the dark side of it, and in the same vain, you always hear about the “dark side” of laziness and never really hear the light side of it and that’s what we’re getting into today. Laziness is like the force and you can choose what to do with its power.

Anyway, without further ado, let’s dive…right into it!











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Ya know, I talk a lot about investing here on this blog. And although this isn’t some sort of financial website (or advice for that matter), and I’m certainly no expert in the field, it still manages to be one of my “go-to” topics to make content about.

And you may ask “why?” Why even give a fuck about investing, Nate?  What’s that even gotta do with sittin’ around on the couch, like the lazy bastard you are, Nate? Isn’t managing an investment portfolio a lot of work, Nate?

Woah, slow down there. Easy, man.  Let’s answer those questions one at a time.

First of all, yes, it’s true. I preach this “lazy mantra” and am all about leaving behind the life of a desk job and instead living the life of a couch potato. And it may seem quite hypocritical for me to go about talking about investing. Pssh, investing, yeah, like isn’t that something specifically reserved for those hardworking chumps on wall street?

Well yeah and uhh…no.

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I mean, investing is something typically associated with those wall street bastards,sure,  but I wouldn’t define what they’re doing as “hard work”. They make some guesses and watch and see what the numbers do. It’s really not that hard. And doesn’t take much of a genius or diligent person to do.

What I’m getting at here, man is investing is just about as “lazy money” as you can get. 

I mean it’s literally just making money from your money. Your money works to earn you an income, so you don't have to.

So of course! Of course I’m going to talk about investing. It perfectly fits into the lazy mantra of minimizing effort and maximizing results. It’s all about passive income, baby!

I mean, that’s what you want, right? The ability to make a living without working a job? You want early retirement? A permanent vacation?

Look man, what I want to break through your head is that you don’t need a job for income. Yes, a job *can* be a stream of income, but it doesn’t need to be your sole stream of income. Ya dig?

The average millionaire has about a half dozen streams of income. And you know what I guarantee at least one of them is? In-fucking-vesting.

It’s all about passive goddamn income. The guys with all the money aren’t the ones schlepping 9 to 5. They aren’t the ones grinding their asses off. Oh no!

They’re the ones sittin’ back on the beach chair in their fancy yacht sippin’ margaritas. They’re the ones making a passive income, while the rest of us put in all the work.

Man, I’m telling ya hard work doesn’t make you rich. And if it did, well then you’d see the coal miners and railroad workers be the billionaires. But they’re not.

The actually billionaires though would like you to believe that YOU TOO can be rich one day if you work just hard enough to earn it, if you try just diligently enough. These guys are clowns. Absolute fucking jokes.
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Okay, I’m gonna paint this picture for you straight: You are always procrastinating. Always.  You hear? 

You are always procrastinating something in order to do something else. That’s just the way it works. Speaking of laws of the universe, that’s one of them. 

You can’t avoid procrastination. Clean cut n’ dry.

Now you may think to yourself, “Oh no! I never procrastinate. I never do that. I’m always diligent.”

First of all, you shouldn’t lie to yourself. But alright, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. Let’s say you actually remain quite active; you’re a bit of an eager beaver, a real go-getter.

You always get projects done as soon as they are assigned. You attend to chores right away and get done errands without hesitation. You’re always busy, always moving, always on the ball.

You don’t sit still.

And that’s what you’re procrastinating on! Did you catch that? One more time: YOU DON’T SIT STILL.

Do you see what you’re doing here? Do you see what your procrastination is.

See, it’s not a matter of IF you procrastinate (or not); it’s a matter of WHAT exactly you procrastinate eon.
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​But for the most part, when it comes to multi-tasking, what you’re really doing is alternating between a subset of tasks in quick succession. You’re not doing everything in synch, per se. 
I mean,  I take it you’re not necessarily juggling knives and breathing fire simultaneously here, though I could be wrong. Maybe you are  quite the performer who holds an arsenal of amazing feats to stun the audience

But for the non-circus jugglers among us, when it comes to multi-tasking, fact of the matter is, we are putting off something (although quite briefly) in order to do another thing.

Procrastination is not wrong at its core. It’s just the natural way things are, given how time works, last I checked, anyway. It’s just wrong to consistently procrastinate the same thing over and over again.

And while you’ve already heard the tried and tired phrase not to procrastinate *too much* by doing things like sittin’ around nothin’, I’m here to tell you to also not to procrastinate *too much* on giving yourself the much needed and much deserved rest. Have a break. Transform into a couch. Don’t do shit!

The key phrase here is “too much”. Balance is key. While you don’t want to procrastinate rest, you also don’t want to procrastinate productivity TOO MUCH.

And that my friend leads us to choosing how to procrastinate decisively, or a phrase I like to use called “Procrastinate with Purpose”.

Since we already covered that no matter what you do, you are always, always, always procrastinating *something*, you must realize that you have the power to deliberately decide what that thing you procrastinate on.

None of this: “Oh I was supposed to finish writing my report, but I wound up binge watching Netflix instead”

Wound up? Wound up? No, you shouldn’t have “wound up” doing anything.

I don’t mean to tell you it’s wrong to binge watch Netflix. I don’t mean to say that taking a nap over washing the dishes is a bad choice.

What’s wrong is the fact that you didn’t have control over your actions and “wound up” doing something completely different than you had planned or anticipated.

You must procrastinate with purpose, never winding up doing anything.

And again, I can’t stress enough: it’s okay to rest and lay on the couch while “procrastinating” on getting work done.

It’s even okay to procrastinate laying on the couch so that you *can* get work done. What I really want you to understand is that procrastination is just sort of one of those inevitable things in life. It’s not good. It’s not bad. It just is.


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Procrastination is the art of putting something off ‘til later. It’s really the heart of time management.

Do what you want though. Procrastinate on the things you want to procrastinate on. 

Never “wind up” doing something you were going to procrastinate on. Procrastinate with purpose. I’ll say it again. Procrastinate with purpose.

That said, don’t always put off rest, either. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t *always* have to be busy. God, I mean so many people are making themselves busy just for the mere dear sake of being busy.

Be aware of what you are putting off. Awareness is the first step. Consciously choose to put off writing that important work e-mail, so you can go play some video games. Deliberately decide to eat nachos instead of going to the gym.

Whatever path you choose, embrace it man. None of this complaining about how you “shoulda” got something done.

Either do it or don’t, but don’t worry about it. Don’t fuss over it.

If you decide not to complete your assignment, just remember you’re acting like quite the deity by taking time to rest.

Be a procrastinator now, so you can live a happier life later.






Take it easy,


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​Well fellow procrasitn8r, the time has come for a huge crash in the market. I told you winter was coming, and well, winter is here now. The cold, cold winds of red candles on the investment charts have arrived. It’s enough to send you shivering in your boots.

But seriously, you’ve no doubt heard about the great market crash of 2022. Bitcoin is at the lowest price it's been since July, treading below $40k. 

And of course, Ethereum, Solana, and the rest of the crypto market is pretty much determined by the direction Bitcoin is moving and thus, is on a bit of a down slope as well. And “bit” is definitely” an EXTREME underestimate here. We’re seeing falls of over 50% in the price some alt coins.

Aaaand that’s the just the crypto market. 
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Abide with your investments. Hodl it. Procrastinate. Wait. Don't sell.

I mean, yeah, sure the market is down right now. There’s no denying that. And of course people are alarmed, absolutely alarmed about this whole thing.
Right now, the fed is in talks about increasing the tax rate on investments in order to alleviate inflation a bit. And that leads to a lot of uncertainty.

How high will the tax rate be? What does that mean for profits on my investments? Etc, etc.

There’s a whole plethora of unanswered questions leading to that uncertainty and it is during times of uncertainty that people live in fear. Hence, the insane amount of panic that we see going on right here.

But I want you look at, I want you to shift your focus, not on what’s happening right now, but look at the future.

I mean in terms of crypto, you gotta ask yourself: Is this a technology that is growing or fading away?

Of course, people are spinning their heads right now saying “IS THIS THE END OF CRYPTO?”

Well, look, I’m not talking about the agitation in the market currently. I mean the actual technology of the blockchain itself and cryptocurrencies. Is that something that will be around long-term?

Well, you gotta look at the trends. Are people actually using it? Is blockchain technology becoming more widely adapted and mainstream? Or is it disappearing entirely and remaining kinda niche? Are people more interested in crypto today than they were ten years ago?

These are the type of questions you gotta ask before you give straight into that panic of “OH NO IT’S OVER!”


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