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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.  Not Getting Shit Done is NOT Being Lazy That’s right. Contrary to popular belief, if you are lazy, you do get shit done. You just sort of…take your time to make it happen. Slow n’ steady. A lazy person values quality over punctuality. It’s as simple as that. While it may not get done by the due date or expected time or whatever, it will get done..EVENTUALLY. Being unmotivated, on the other hand, means you never get shit done. Not tomorrow. Not later. Never. While unmotivated, you put it off and put it off that thing you need to get done or goal you wish to complete, not because you have the intention of getting it done at all but because you simply don’t have the willpower to make it actually happen. You make excuses for yourself. You “wind up” doing shit you didn’t plan on doing, like watching Netflix instead of writing up that paper. Look man, if you wanna watch Netflix instead of write that paper (or whatever project or task you’ve been putting off) that’s totally cool. What’s not cool though is doing it unwillingly. You don’t lie around on the couch because you WANT to, you do it because you can’t control yourself. What I’m getting at here, and again another phrase I like to repeat at times is that you must PROCRASTINATE WITH PURPOSE.  Put off things with intention. Wait ‘til later with some sort of determination to do so. Not because you can’t find it in yourself to actually do it. That’s not being lazy. That’s being unmotivated. If you’re sittin’ around doing nothing when you actually want to be getting things done instead of doing that, uhhh hello? You’re not lazy, you’re just fucking unmotivated as shit. I know I put things bluntly here. But seriously, man, get a grip. You need to stop calling yourself lazy and admit you don’t have the inner-motivation to do things. But that’s okay. Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery, right? And I’m here to help. Why? Well because I was in your shoes! I was that unmotivated bastard who easily got called “lazy” because you know what? I simply would not get shit done. But I realized. I realized “Hey, you know what? I’m gonna still get shit done, but I’m gonna find an easy way to do it and I’m gonna take my time to do it too!” And that’s sort of the mindset you want to adopt here. In a word “Eventually” Eventually you’ll get there. Eventually you’ll make it happen. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But eventually. And I don’t mean to just say that word. I don’t mean to use “eventually” or “later” as some sort of an excuse to get out doing it at all. I mean it. Eventually. Make it happen at some point. When? Who cares! But make it fucking happen, you hear!? Damn! I’m telling ya, you don’t have to “get up off your lazy ass”. You just have to stop discouraging yourself from actually doing it -- that goal you’ve been putting off for months, maybe even years. Stop the self-talk of “I don’t know if I really can” and start thinking “I will eventually”. And MEAN IT!  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.  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
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There’s this idea that you should always be absolutely 100% happy all of the time. “Stay positive. Stay upbeat. Keep a cheerful spirit.” is what we’re told. And granted, it’s no good to be down on yourself all the time and mourn over your losses of the past in an unceasing perpetual mental loop of a negative thinking mode. But this idea that you have to be totally elated and joyful is a bit…unrealistic, to say the least. It doesn’t matter how easy squeezy lemon squeezy life may get, fact of the matter is…  Life straight up sucks sometimes! And to say you should wear a cheerful smile at your grandma’s funeral or jump for joy when you find out your best friend is in the hospital after being in a car accident is absolute garbage. It’s hog wash. Look, you don’t have to be happy all the time. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m all for looking at the bright side of life (cue Monty Python), but there’s no denying that shit just sucks sometimes and it’s okay to get mad, upset, sad, or even angry at times. That’s part of life. Going through the range of emotions. There’s no sense being blissfully oblivious to the traumatic events in your life, just because you set yourself under the false notion that you MUST be happy at all times. Always. Man, cry once in a while. Shout out in an angry rant on occasion. Live those emotions. Feel them. Besides, forcing yourself to stay happy during some sort of crisis will only lead you to repress those negative emotions, and trust me, repressed emotions are a lot less tame than just plain old regular emotions. When you hold back your emotions, when you let them bottle up inside, you’re only feeding the beast that’ll rampage in an uncontrollable emotional outburst later down the line. You have to allow yourself to feel the emotions you are feeling in the moment and not try to hide them away behind some sort of smiley mask. Your emotions are completely valid…and you have to believe that. You have to.  You can put rose petals on a pile of shit, but at the end of the day, it’s still a pile of shit. That is to say, it doesn’t matter how much you dress up something or try to make it look pretty, if at its core it’s shit! When life sucks, it sucks, and there’s no amount of “positive outlook” that can make the shit look pretty. Now I don’t mean to sound like some sort of Debbie downer or whatever. I ain’t trying to look pessimistic, if it’s coming across that way. I just want to point out that it’s OKAY not to feel fully and completely 100% happy during 100% of the time. That said, I’d like to expand upon that. Because while it’s okay not to always be happy. It’s NOT okay to perpetually be UNhappy either. Where the line is drawn is when you hold on to that negativity, when you continue to lament and worry about the bad things that happened to you in your life. Before we do a little talk about worrying though, I want to first clarify a few points about this whole “live your emotions and feel them” thing. Let’s get to it!  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.  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…  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…  Worrying is a lot of work. It’s a hassle to put yourself under the constant burden and stress of what used to be or what could be. Repeatedly ruminating over and over again about how things “woulda, shoulda, coulda” -- that’s a lot of effort. It’s basically putting yourself through the trauma you initially experienced every single day. Why would you do that to yourself? Man, I’m telling you as a fellow procrastin8r and friend, you can’t keep holding on to shit. Flush shit down the toilet. Don’t let it sit in the bowl forever. Man, that stinks! And that’s unsanitary af. It’s not healthy to keep shit in your life. Shit happens but you gotta flush it down and get rid of it. But seriously, let bygones be bygones. Certainly, grieve. Let yourself feel the pain. But don’t let that pain linger. Let the wound heal, dude. That takes time. But it’ll happen….Eventually.  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. Time, what a fascinating concept -- the idea that the clock is always ticking and never really winding backward, always moving forward one second at a time. It’s a theory that we, as human beings, are the only species on the entire planet earth consciously aware of it. A lion or a badger or poodle has no freaking clue what time is nor would they really care. They just, ya know, live their own little animal lives, without regards to this bizarre theory of time. Here we are though, so aware of this mathematical structure called “time” and what does it do to us? Well, it makes us for lack of a better phrase really fucking stressed. I mean, put it this way, when you think about “time”, you’re probably often thinking about how limited it is. You don’t have enough time to do this or that. You’re nearly out of time to get so and so done or accomplish such n’ such. You’re thinking about how time must be spent. After all, like money, it’s a resource. And as a resource, you have to allocate it efficiently, spend it wisely. And it’s in this “frugal” -like mindset you have over time that you begin arranging your thoughts in something along the lines of: “There’s never enough time to do all the things that I want to do.”  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.  You don’t. You can embrace laziness and be a true procrastin8r, putting off those finicky little obligations of yours. Now you may of course say, well I don’t go to work then I can’t pay bills and if I can’t pay bills then I’ll get evicted from my home and if I get evicted my home than I’ll be living on the streets and then… Ah, yeah! You see what you’re doing. Consequences, consequences. You’re listing CONSEQUENCES. A bunch of them, at that! That’s what you’re doing. Just listing consequences. Pure. Genuine consequences When you’re saying “if I don’t do this, then that”, all you’re doing is rolling out a list of the negative repercussions of failing to do said task or action. And while there are indeed CONSEQUENCES for not showing up to work “as scheduled” or not paying your bills “on time”, the fact of the matter is you *still* don’t actually HAVE TO do those things. It’s not a matter of if you have to or not. You don’t HAVE TO do anything. It’s a matter of what consequences you’re willing to pay or put up with. Basically, we’re always choosing consequences. And I mean, for argument’s sake, the consequence of choosing to go to work instead of lie in bed all day include becoming overworked and overstressed. There’s the consequence of coming home, exhausted physically and mentally- just utterly drained. That’s definitely a consequence. That’s definitely a repercussion of your actions….or inaction, at least. See, man. You have freedom to CHOOSE what you do with your time. Again, you’re not running out of it. You have plenty of it -plenty of time-- to do the things you want to do. The same 24 hours every day. You choose what to do every single second. And yet, you CHOOSE TO prioritize these supposed obligations that you have.  There’s no such thing as obligation. You aren’t obligated to do *anything*. Obligation is just a mindset, a slavery mindset. You’ve been brainwashed to be an obedient corporate slave, who follows orders and works towards his duty without question or hesitation. You’re not too busy. You CHOOSE to be busy, man Look at the procrastin8r. What does he do? He sits at home, watching movies on Netflix or playing video games in his boxers on the couch. He doesn’t care about these duties or obligations. The concept of time and very well “wasting” it doesn’t bother him. He doesn’t give a fuck. He just does what he wants. And enjoys every second of it. He feels there’s “plenty of time”, things will get done “later. As a procrastin8r, time is no longer a series of protocols and obligations but a resource to spend with it how you want. Now before I go further on that point, I want to make it clear I’m not necessarily advocating *actually* lying in bed all day instead of going to work or doing what you’ve gotta do to pay those bills. I’m not saying DON’T do that. I’m saying don’t feel like you *have* to. There’s plenty of time to do the things, all the things that you want to. You just CHOOSE NOT to do them. You see? You’re choosing one set of consequences over the other. It’s not that you *have to* go to work, it’s not that you *need to* pay the bills. It’s that you chose to prioritize the importance of those things over say, a bit of leisure.  And remember, by prioritizing one thing, you are in turn PROCRASTINATING another.
You are always putting off one thing to do another. Even if you choose to do the productive thing, you are putting off time to rest. And putting off rest has consequences too, if you think about it. The pain in your neck from putting the burden of stress there, the irritability, the lack of energy and maybe even happiness. You must learn to Procrastinate with Purpose. Yes, that’s a phrase I say all the time. But it’s true. You must realize that you pick what to procrastinate on. You choose what to do with your time….or at the very least, you have that power within you. Maybe you’ve been following the same tired routine day in and day out, feeling like this is what you gotta do. I’ll tell you man, if you’re living that way, well I’d hate to break it to you but you aren’t even LIVING! You’re just existing. And I don’t know about you, man. But I’m here to LIVE, not exist. I’m here to enjoy my time, not worry about how I SHOULD BE spending it. Stop shoulding yourself, dude! Do what you want, not what you feel like you “should be” doing. Free yourself from the mindset that there’s all these things you SHOULD do, all these things you HAVE to do. Leave behind the corporate salve mindset and enter one of the lazy. Live a life of desire and not of obligation. It’s your time. Do what you want with it. That…is the procrastin8r way Take it easy, N8 Well fellow procrastin8r, it’s been another trip for me around the sun. This past weekend marks my 31st birthday. Woah, I know getting up there. And merry goddman birthday to me! Ya know something, turning 31 actually hit harder than turning 30. I mean turning 30 was like “shit man, I’m not young any more.” I ain’t sayin’ it’s necessarily old, but it’s definitely not so young either. It’s a weird age. Because to *most* of the adult world, I’m still quote on quote “young” but to kids, heck even in high school or college age, thirty is pretty damn old. Like I remember being just a senior in college and thinking 30 was a fucking old man. Next thing you know I’m not only thirty but IN my thirties. That’s the thing about turning 31, man. Like I am IN my thirties now and not just the big three oh. And I realize now I’m closer to someone who’s 40 than someone who’s 20. And that frankly scares the living daylights out of me. Like, I am nine years away from turning 40. And I’m thinking back, I’m thinking. Okay, nine years, that would put me at the year I graduated college, which quite honestly does NOT seem all too long ago. Seems like maybe a few months, not an entire freaking DECADE of time. Jesus. It goes by fast. I get what people are saying now when they say that.  But yeah man, maybe it’s some sort of quarter life crisis I’m having but it got me thinking -- it got me thinking, man, ya know--- life is short. I’ve heard that phrase before as much as you have I’m sure. But it never really hit me. I never really thought about it. It never really occurred to me just how really freaking short this little dance on the stage called life is. It was the type of thing I’d shove off like “oh yeah sure life is short.” But ya know, you never really think about aging. You never really truly grasp the concept of how quickly life can move. At least I know I didn’t. Not ‘til recently anyway. It just sort of happens, aging, that is, and isn’t something you consciously contemplate about. But…You reach a certain age where you actually begin to think about age. It’s not something you typically think about until you’re “old enough”. Well I suppose, that’s not completely true. There is a time, when we’re real young that age is some sort of “achievement” or bragging right. Being the “cool” older kids is what I’m talking about. You probably remember yelling in the school yard something along the lines of “I’m seven and a HALF and you’re only SEVEN.” “And a half!” Ha! Seems like once you've passed the age of twelve “and a half” you stop counting your age by halves. And then eventually once you reach a certain age in adulthood (which I’m telling you is right around thirty), what used to be a mark of passage becomes something you’d rather not mention if the topic comes up. After all, being old has a certain stigma around it in society. You can’t fat shame or bully but you can call someone a dinosaur and that’s cool.  Sounds like something an old person would complain about, am I right? I’’m not really complaining though. I’m just observing. It’s fascinating -- how old a person is can easily be the butt of jokes. Yet, it’s something we kind of all do. We all eventually get old. We all age. It’s the way life is. I mean unless you’re experiencing something like the incredible case of Benjamin Button, most of us are all getting older every day. And it’s just crazy. It’s crazy to me how really fast that this whole little aging process happens. Even though it’s not something we necessarily think about it until we hit a certain point in the process (that is, until we hit a certain age, like 30 lol). I mean here, just to paint a picture. I recently got in touch with an old neighborhood friend I used to play with as a kid, who I came across as a Facebook friend suggestion. Now guess what? HE has his own kids! I’m scrolling through and see a picture and I’m like: Wtf is that (insert name)…Well holy shit! I’ll be damned! It doesn’t seem TOO loing ago that WE were kids, running around playing man hunt n’ tag and Pokemon cards in the 90s. Btw, if you wanna feel old, tell a kid you were born in the 1900s or tell ‘em you were born before Google. It’s like, you look back at life and you begin to think “how did I get here?” I mean one day you’re eating fruit roll-ups and playing Gameboy Color as a kid, the next you’re a full grown adult paying his/her own bills, sitting in front of a computer writing a blog. Like what the fuck? Where did this time even go? Another anecdote is my cousin, my LITTLE cousin is on his way to graduate college. And I’m thinking, damn yo! I didn’t graduate college that long ago, which I previously mentioned. Yet I guess I have, in reality. Nearly a decade ago. I mean, sheesh. What I’m really getting at here, and I suppose this is a round-about way of saying this, but aging is inevitable and you’ve gotta appreciate your time here in life while you have No anti-wrinkle cream or plastic surgery can prevent you from aging. That’s what we call the “denial stage” of grief. You’re totally denying the fact that you’re aging by trying to hide it behind plastic or cosmetics. It’s just a mask, a false disguise. Face it, you’re getting old. But that’s okay. The disease of age eventually kills us all. A morbid thought, perhaps, but you can be the healthiest person -- eat the right diet, exercise on a daily basis, and otherwise live a rather fit, active life complete with a well-balanced nutrition and still succumb to the inevitable death sentence of being too freaking old to live any longer. “Memento Mori” is a phrase the stoics say meaning “remember death”. Now at first glance, that sounds like a rather dark thought. No one likes to think of aging, yet alone death, but the two kind of go hand in hand. The point is, though, not to worry about death but to know that this day could very well be your last. Or at least will be at some point. Death is always lurking around the corner and we’re all sort of marked by the ever-ticking death clock. It’s inevitable that we all die. None of make it out of here alive, anyway! That’s not to say it’s a “doom” clock in any sort of way or to suggest that it’s something to fear. The whole premise behind the phrase “Memento Mori” is to REMEMBER. Remember that you die and live life as if this could be it, this could be the time of your death. It puts things in perspective. Ya know, it really gets you thinking “This moment, this experience I’m having right now” won’t last forever. And that gives you motivation to cherish it, cherish the moments that make up your day, hold true to the memories that make up your life. As you age and grow, you sort of just go through the motions. One day you're playing out in the schoolyard for recess as a child, the next you’re working a “real job” as an adult. We tend to just let life pass us by. But if you adapt the mindset of “Memento Mori”, life becomes a whole lot more enjoyable and that little process of “aging” becomes an opportunity to learn and grow, rather than look at with distaste.  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.  TODAY is your good ole day. Today is the day to remember. They say you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone (cue Big Yellow Taxi). It’s silly how the brain works. We hold higher value on “what used to be” than what is, or at least we tend to anyway. Be lazy. Move through the journey, the journey of life, one step at a time. Appreciate life in the moment. Ya know as kids we’re all looking forward to the day we all “grow up.” Then once we grow up we realize, shit, I’m just a kid in an adult body. I don’t know what I’m doing. You think that adults know everything about adulting. That there’s this secret tome of knowledge bestowed upon you or something when you reach the age of adulthood. But then you…actually become an adult and you realize. You realize that no one actually knows what in the FUCK they are doing. And we’re all just sort of….improvising. We’re just making up shit as we go along. That’s the secret no one tells you as a kid. That seriously, no one knows what in the HELL they are doing here. All this adulting stuff -- finding a place to live, paying bills, taking out loans, investing for retirement. Yeah that’s not something you just “magically” start knowing come a certain age. That’s something you gotta figure out for yourself. No one teaches you. Just here kid, go tackle the world! And it’s true, we’re all just kids in adult bodies, exploring the big world and trying to figure out what to do. And I don’t really think any of us get it right. We’re just trying to make do and do what’s best for us. Anyway, once you realize that the whole idea of this “adult world” is arbitrary bullshit and there’s nothing that age itself teaches you, you’ve come to the point now, where you can begging learning and experiencing on your own. The world isn’t just going to hand you knowledge and wisdom. You gotta find that for yourself, man.  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.  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.  Like as a kid time goes by so slow. Time goes by SO slow! And well, to be quite frank it makes sense. I mean it’s simply a matter of basic mathematics and fractions. Like one year to a seven year old is proportionally a lot more of his life than say, a 40 year old. One out of seven is a much bigger number than one out of 40, for example. But also as a kid, you tend to live life so freely. You’re not worried about the bills to pay or workload to complete. Like what are you worried about as a kid? Maybe scraping your knee and having a boo boo? We stress ourselves out with a plethora of things as an adult and the only reason we see the days of our youth as “the good ole days” was because that was the time we were actually LIVING. We weren’t stressing ourselves out. We were just being a kid. Enjoying kid stuff. Now, go out there and enjoy adult stuff.  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 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.  Anyway, specifically what we’re going to get into here is Play-to-Earn games. That’s right, getting paid to play video games. Not write about them. Not stream content about them. Simply. Just. Play. That’s it! Now that may sound just too good enough to be true, but I assure you, it is quite the profit potential, coming from a lazy dude of course and not some financial advisor. But anyway, I do believe the Play-toEarn model is the direction that the gaming industry is headed in the future. Heck, just recently GameStop partnered with Immutable, and plans to launch their own NFT marketplace. Immutable is the team behind the NFT-based card game called Gods Unchained, which I’ll probably have a full review of…later…not now, but eventually. I’ll get it done damnit! That's HUGE news though. With a big company like GameStop jumping on board, it shows that NFTs, that is Non-Fungible Tokens, assets are slowly growing bigger and bigger, as in more and more accepted and mainstream. GameStop is really making a smart move here and diverting away from the traditional brick n’ mortar video game store we know them as and really embracing their presence in NFT technology and the metaverse. But it’s not just GameStop alone in the void. Other big grand names like Nike and Adidas have created their own fashion-based NFTs. And this is really just the beginning.  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!  1. A Fun/Addicting Game Loop First and foremost, is the game actually fun to play? Like is it something you’d be playing even IF there wasn’t any sort play-to-earn incentive? A P2E game that is gonna stick around must be, in my humble opinion, actually fucking fun to play. It’s gotta have that “one more” feeling to it. Just one more level, one more match, one more battle! Aaaand next thing you know it’s 3 in the goddamn morning. Something like that, ya know. It’s gotta have this sort of loop or cycle of gameplay that keeps you wanting MORE, that keeps you coming back. Maybe it's getting a higher score, maybe it’s finding more rare loot. Whatever it is, it’s gotta keep you hooked on playing the game just for the sake of playing it, rewards aside. The in-game achievements should be enough incentive alone to keep playing. It’s gotta be something that can steal away hours of your time, without you even thinking about it. Addictive elements is what you want, almost like you need your “fix” to play it. A lot of these P2E games aren’t really fun games. Like…at all! I mean, there’s so many of these “clicker” play to earn games that don’t really offer much gameplay beyond clicking a button once a day to earn your reward and c’mon what is THAT? That’s not a game people are going to want to play beyond the incentive of getting paid to play it. A successful P2E game is going to be, well a GAME, something that’s actually freaking entertaining to play. None of these boring clickity mclick games are going to last very long. Entertainment should be the top priority P2E developers should aim to create and you, as a potential P2E investor and player should should aim to find. One thing I see developers doing, like Azur Game, is taking an already proven good game loop formula and building in on the Metaverse. They took their game Axes, which already had thousands of players daily and are now building “Axes Metaverse”, which is essentially the exact same game but with NFTs. I’m all for developers taking games that are fun and throwing them on the blockchain. It may seem lazy. But I’m all about that. No sense in re-inventing the wheel. If a game is fun, it’ll be fun with NFTs and other P2E elements. I think we’re gonna see more and more developers taking already well-established games and putting them on the blockchain and it’ something to look out for. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an Angry Birds metaverse/p2 game. God, that game is everywhere! There’s even Angry Birds bath bombs, toothpaste, and hand sanitizer. I kid you not  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 P2E I 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.  3. A Compelling Competitive Scene Another P2E win element we’re going to look at today is competition. Head to Head! Competition is really the heart and blood of what determines the longevity of a game -- any game, and not just P2E. This is why games like Street Fighter, Star Craft, and Counter Strike can maintain a strong playerbase for so long - the competition is fierce! There should be a feeling of wanting to outsmart, outwit, and outplay your opponent. Players should be rewarded for being amongst the top of them all. A PVP match, or tournament should offer reward pools based on their performance. Obviously, the higher rankings would equate to higher rewards. Gods Unchained does this with their weekly weekend tournaments, giving cards and GODS as rewards based on your rank as well as amount of “wins” you achieve throughout the weekend (up to 25). Heroes & Empires also offers their native HE token based on your ranking in the PVP colosseum. Incentivizing players to compete is both a smart and efficient way to shell out rewards. It makes players want to climb their way to the top so they can earn the highest rewards, and that of course involves becoming skilled and knowledgeable about the game mechanics. Competition keeps players invested in the game, both with their time and money, in short  4. A Sense of Progression/Achievement
Finally, the last element to look for in a P2E project is good ole fashioned progression. Leveling up, unlocking new abilities, earning cool and powerful loot. There should be some feeling of “my character is getting better” or “my account is getting stronger.” I’d say that progression in the baseline for maintaining players long term. I mean this can even sort of tie in with competition, as maybe that sense of progression comes from earning a higher rank. Either way, there must be some form of forward motion within the game design. Games that are just sort of “one n’ done” aren’t going to last in my opinion. There has to be some sort of goal or ultimate achievement for players to achieve - max level, top rank, etc. in order for there to be long term sustainability of a given game. Without that, without levels or ranks or collectibles to gather, players will get bored of the game quite easily. We talked about game loop earlier. Well one of the driving factors *behind* a game loop is to motivate players to reach a certain point of achievement. Wrapping Up: Each of these factors alone aren’t enough to call a game a solid investment. It’s each of them, combined, that creates a synergy of “goodness”. At the end of the day, really the only question you need to ask yourself when choosing whether or not to invest in a P2E game is, would I play this? Because if you wouldn’t play it, without the incentive of payment that is, then who else is really gonna? Anyway, game on my friends and until next time… Stay classy, stay sexy, stay awesome and take it real easy, N8 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.  Wolves are actually more like dogs that just so happen to live out in the wild. There was a time where humans and wolves lived together; they were as much as “man’s best friend” as your little fluffy pomeranian. But because of all of these stories in fairytales of books and movies, where the wolf is typically the villain or bad guy, like the one that huffed and puffed and blew the house down in the THree Little Pigs, the general public’s view of wolves is that they are quite vindictive and flat out mean. Like, if you hear a pack of wolves howling it means they’re out to hunt their prey, which is you as a lonely hiking bystander. Fairytales will literally have you believe that wolves crave human flesh. And while wolves are carnivores, that just means they want to eat meat, not necessarily human meat, either. In fact, because of our ancestors and their bond with wolves, wolves typically respect humans, and aren’t very likely to eat them, contrary to popular belief. Unless of course he was a very, very hungry wolf. But honestly, you look at something like a German Shepard and tell me that he wouldn’t attack/eat you if *he* was hungry enough. C’mon man. Besides, there are literal Wolf Sanctuaries, where people, yes, people, live with and take care of wolves. Some would even call them “friends” Imagine that! And you thought every wolf was a “Big Bad” one.  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.  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!  To be lazy is to be relaxed. A lazy person is laid back and calm. Nothing bothers him. He doesn’t give a fuck. He’s just his own dude abiding. Stress and worry doesn’t easily startle him or shake him up. If anything unexpected or emotional happens, well then he’s too LAZY to get all upset and make a big deal about it. He recognizes his emotion, without letting them spiral out of control. He reflects instead reacts. If someone insults or criticizes him, well shit man, again, he’s too LAZY to make a huge fuss over it, get into an argument, and/or stir up some drama. You see, despite all the bad connotations being lazy has, you can’t deny that typically a lazy person isn’t very much of an argumentative prick or drama queen. They kind of just go with the flow with “whatever man”. Now going with the flow doesn’t necessarily mean they like what happened or are “cool wit it” or whatever, it just means that they don’t let it bother them, they don’t let it get to them. Remaining in control, not letting shit get under your skin too easily, that’s the key part of what were talking about when we talk about being relaxed. And like I said, if you’re lazy, I mean TRULY lazy, then you are naturally quite relaxed about things. No matter how hectic, no matter how crazy, you remain level-headed and easy going. That’s what you want to ideally aim for anyway, assuming you want to begin to follow the “light side” of laziness.  To be lazy is to be unfazed. Unfazed. What a word. It doesn’t mean you don’t care. It doesn’t mean you’re unconcerned. It just means you aren’t alarmed or aggravated easily. You’re stoic, clam….unfazed. This sort of what we were talking about with staying “relaxed”. I mean, if you’re relaxed, you’re unfazed and vice versa. Again, let’s think about a lazy person. The building could be on literal fire with people screaming and he’d be thinking about how he doesn’t feel like getting off the couch or chair he’s sitting at, instead of running around in a panic-induced frenzy. Now I suppose the dark side of that is that being lazy can mean you put yourself (and perhaps others) in danger. But the light side is that you can use this “unfazed” mode to prevent yourself from feeling anxious, worried, or stressed. It’s not so much about not caring about *anything*, but caring only about things that are *actually* important. Now I know what you’re thinking. In the case of an emergency, you can’t just sit there. You gotta fucking move! Off your ass! You may be thinking remaining unfazed during a serious emergency isn’t something honorable. And well I’d reckon that sitting around doing nothing during a real emergency is not the best course of action (or inaction I suppose). But unfazed isn’t about just not caring, not doing anything. It’s not getting riled up or emotionally perturbed. In fact, remaining unfazed *during* an emergency is probably one of the best things you can do. Think about it, man. What’s gonna solve an emergency? Running around like a nut shouting gibberish of words because you lost your ability to coherently speak, or calmly approaching the situation and making logical decisions about the right steps to take? You see, being unfazed, and very well being LAZY, is about staying calm in the heart of the storm. It’s about being rational during an emergency or legitimate crisis. Besides, if you can be unfazed during real emergencies, then you can be unfazed during any situation life throws at you and that’s what allows you to solve issues using a rational approach, rather than a firestormed emotional one.  To be lazy is to be free. A person who is lazy does what he wants when he wants. It’s that simple. While he has the bad rep of not going to class, not showing up for work, not getting chores done. I mean, these are a list of things he DOESN’T do. But what about what he does do? And maybe that answer is actually nothing. In which case, good for him! Good for him for doing nothing. Look at it this way, he’s doing what he WANTS. How often do you do that? How often are you not running from one obligation to the next? How often are you not going through your to-do list and “have-tos”? How often…do you do what you want? Man, I’m telling you, being able to throw all that shit away and actually do what you want, that takes some balls. That takes some audacity. We all point and laugh at the bum, who sits at home all day. And sure, on the surface, maybe the Cheetos stained t-shirt and cum-stained cushions, littered with tissues ain’t the best look. But hey, I mean, guy does what he wants and doesn’t question what other people think about it. Dude is living the dream. I mean….his dream anyway. What’s your dream? Something you want right? All this talk about how being lazy means you don’t go for your dreams. But fuck man, lazy people are living their dreams. Every. Single. Day. Why? Because they have FREEDOM. They’ve freed themselves from the duties, obligations, or otherwise expected protocols and decided to quote on quote “was te their time” doing what they actually want. And let me tell you about this “waste of time”, by the way. I said it before and I’ll say it again, but Time you enjoy wasting is NOT wasted time! That’s right. So another aspect of the light side of lazy is to be able to live a life of desire rather than a life of obligation. Free yourself man, embrace your laziness. To be lazy is to be efficient.
There’s a quote that’s often credited to Bill Gates, but originally came from Frank B. Gilbreth Sr. and it goes: “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. See a lazy person doesn’t want to bother with overly complicated processes. You bet your cookie that if there’s an easier way Heck, another thing I know I’ve said before, but it really drives home what I’m trying to say, but every invention, ever, since the wheel was invented by a lazy person. Laziness is the fuel to innovation. The whole reason we drive cars instead of walk. The whole reason we have apps on our phone that can deliver ANYTHING in the fucking world = to our door Laziness is what allowed society to make things convenient, to make things easily accessible. I’m telling you straight, man. If it wasn’t for laziness, we’d still be hunting and gathering and living in caves. We evolved, as a species *because of* our laziness. We built the entire modern civilization, complete with cool tech *because of* laziness. Yet, here we are, in this modern lazy-built society, and the audacity, the absolute nerve to say that laziness is terrible, when laziness…is exactly what got us here. So say it loud. Say it proud, my fellow procrasitn8r: I’m LAZY! Take it easy and may the force be with you -N8 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.  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.  They literally spend all day not doing shit, reaping in loads of cash, and sit there telling us “oh yeah work hard, you’ll get there.” Psh! As if! Dude, you gotta realize that anything you make at your job, I don’t care how prestigious it is, they’re only giving you scraps off the table. Believe me, if you’re making six figures, well then you bet your ass and a door knob that they’re making seven or eight figures to your name. The real profit comes from investing. Heck even money you “save” in the bank is being invested. I mean look here, do you know what those banks do to make money? It’s not like they just let your money sit in a vault and call it a day. C’mon now! They make money off YOUR money. They’re playing with your money in stock market bets and lending out loans to earn interest. Then what? Then they give you a little tiny kick back in APY interest, which is the equivalent of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction off what they’re making off your buck. “Work hard and save” is the mantra we’re all given from the early days of our childhood. The whole system is corrupt. [Education is deisgned to turn you into an obedient corporate little slave.] They’ll teach you all about how a plant makes its own food through the process of photosynthesis and how to measure the circumference of a circle and what the newspaper headline was back in the 1800s. But they won’t teach you in school is how to invest, how to actually *make* money…unless of course you go to college and take some courses, but guess what? Those are courses you’re paying for! It’s crazy. All a college degree is is a piece of paper that says “Congratulations! You showed up for class.” Yet they sell it as some sort of ticket to your dream job. It’s only once you’ve graduated that you realize that a college degree ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, and serves better as the most expensive sheet of toilet paper you’ll ever purchase. Colleges act like their a gateway to some secret tome of wisdom and charge you up the wazoo for this supposed “exclusive access” to it. But there’s no secret fountain of knowledge or tome of wisdom locked behind the university’s doors. Any information they could ever teach you in class is easily accessible from your pocket. Take out your phone. You have Google. You have the Internet. You have access to the entire library of human knowledge that ever existed right in the palm of your hands. But I’m getting off track here. I didn’t really want to get into a whole deep discussion on the corrupted education system, specifically. Not today anyway. Another time I suppose. It all ties together though: the corporate system, the education system, the political system. It’s all one big machine to produce clones of hard workers, that all think and act the same. Now the way to break out of it, the way to achieve true personal freedom, is to educate yourself. And I don’t mean go to school, clearly. There’s much you can learn outside of a classroom. Class is just a mindless structure. Here’s a secret: if you’re still in school and wanna know how to get straight As--- You don’t really have to know things. You just have to know how to pass a test. That’s it!  Show up for class and know how to pass tests. Easy! Congratulations! You’ll have your degree in no time. But seriously, there are plenty of “drop outs” that made it big. Plenty of lazy bastards that dropped out of school and became rich and successful. There’s Henry Ford, Mark Zuckerberg, Walt Disney, Bill gates, and Steve Jobs--- to name just a few. What did these guys do to make it there? Did they work hard? Did they strive beyond their means to reach success? No…and no. You see, the people we know as billionaires didn’t work hard. They didn’t strive for anything. What they did was embrace their laziness. What they did is learn how to minimize effort and maximize results. And that’s the opposite! That’s the opposite of what the whole system is designed to get you to do. You’re brainwashed to believe that you must MAXIMIZE effort and will in turn maximize results. But what happens? You come home after a full 40 hour plus work week, groggy-eyed, exhausted, look at your pay check and realize you have *barely* just enough to cover bills. Huh! Shouldn’t you be a millionaire with the amount of effort you’re working? I mean given if results are equal to effort then certainly by working your ass off all week, the results should be quite luxurious. But they’re not. And you’re left living paycheck to paycheck, barely scraping by. [You’re literally A SLAVE, whose entire existence is to exchange labor for survival]. And that’s exactly what you’re doing! You are giving it your best You are giving it your all. You are working painstakingly hard and for what? Just enough money to cover a roof and groceries? Man, I’ll tell ya. You gotta look at the people at the top. And the people at the top? Well, I’ll tell you what they AREN’T doing. And they AREN’T doing the typical earning of a college degree and working through the whole long ass 40 year plus corporate job grind that’s expected of us. What they are doing though is embracing their laziness. They learned how to minimize that effort and maximize their results. And a lot of it came through investing. And when I say investing. I don’t mean just what you put in your stock portfolio or crypto wallet. I mean, that certainly helps go a long way. But when I’m talking about investing I’m talking about investing in people. Investing in ideas. Steve Jobs, for example didn’t “invent” the iPad, although he’s credited for it. What he did was invest in the right engineers with the right ideas to create the right product.  You see, it’s about learning how to invest what resources of time, money, and effort, you have into places that bring you value, a worthwhile return on your investment, that is.
When you do this, you’ve got to look at what you’re investing in right now. That’s right! We’re ALL investors in some fashion. Maybe you’re not necessarily a connoisseur in the “market”, but no matter what you’re always “investing” something. It could be time at a job. You “invest” your time and effort into earning that measly little paycheck. And something like that, well I think if you’re being frank with yourself really ain’t worth the “investment” dude. The ROI is shit, perhaps even negative. Invest in yourself. Invest in things that matter, things that aren’t important. Stop investing all the time and effort you have into a job that barely afford you to put food on the table and a roof over your head. You’ve got to be willing to be lazy. Break out of your corporate slave mind and become a procrastinator, man. Let me ask you this: do you really, I mean *really* want to be working your whole life? No, of course not. And neither did these billionaires, these big and successful people that dropped out of school and dropped out of the corporate grind. Doing what is “expected” of you is not always the best path to take. It’s the people that decide NOT to follow the norm that ended up making bank. It’s the people that said “I’m not gonna work. I’m gonna get other people to do it. I’m gonna get my money to do it.” Anyone who si rich has learned this secret. And by all means, it doesn’t happen overnight. [This isn’t the lottery.] It’s a slow n’ steady process to get rich and achieve your life of freedom. Just be patient, invest in the right places. Find valuable people, valuable ideas. I mean ‘cause ultimately what makes a stock price grow? Valuable ideas that are executed well. And how are they executed well? By the company choosing to hire (and invest in) the right people to make it happen. Stop investing in places with shitty returns, like your boring desk job that offers a shitty paycheck and little to no benefits. Invest instead in places that offer value. It’s something you learn when you decide to skip class and educate yourself. Your investments will grow and you’ll get to where you want to be….eventually! We live in such a hard work culture, where any sort of leisure is seen as a disgrace to your character, where any sort of “waste of time” is viewed as a vice. And what is this “waste of time” we speak of? Well, that means enjoying yourself. God forbid you kick up your feet and watch TV or play video games. Heaven fucking banish the one who chooses to spend their time taking a nap instead of working their ass off. People will act all holier than thou and tell you to NEVER procrastinate, to never slack off, to never stall around, as if doing so is the absolute bane of society. They’ll tell you procrastination is a terrible habit and you dare not even think about it. You better keep busy, keep going to work. Yes, obey your corporate overlords, you worthless little office grunt. But I’m here to tell you, quite the contrary, as the procrastin8r himself: that procrastination ain’t such a bad thing. And hey, if you don’t want to take that from some random lazy dude on the Interwebs, take it from the Lord Almighty himself, who literally made one of the Ten Commandments, the top ten moral laws of the universe to follow, he made one of those divine orders to “take a day off”. The Supreme Being and Divine Ruler of the Universe himself said that refusing to take a rest was literally one of the top ten most immoral things a person could do.  And look I ain’t necessarily a religious man, I just find it rather amusing that people will stand n’ preach about what’s in the Bible in the same breath they tell you to “get back to work”, yet the Bible itself is full of verses Hebrews 4:9-10 says: “There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his.” It’s literally sacrilegious to NOT rest. Heck, in the whole creation story, what did God do on the seventh day? He took the day to rest. He took the time to procrastinate. He allowed himself the ability to do…absolutely NOTHING. And he “created” us in his image. Admittedly, I’m not one to buy into the whole creation story and find it to be more keen to that of a fairytale than any legitimate doctrine of history. Look, I’m only using this point as a metaphor and perhaps illustrate what I’m trying to say more clearly to those of my readers who do hold faith. Anyway, this isn’t some sort of religious debate I’m trying to bring up here, but case and point here is that taking time to rest, taking time to procrastinate and do nothing, is not only acceptable, it’s a morally *good* thing to do. And you know what? All this stigma against procrastination leaves out the very candid fact that it’s impossible NOT to procrastinate. I mean, you don’t need to do nothing in order to procrastinate. You can be doing something while procrastinating another. Did you catch that?  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.  ’ll break it down for you, real simple: By consistently keeping yourself busy with busywork, you’re putting off “break time”, you’re procrastinating keeping holy the Sabbath day, you’re postponing time to rest. And as we already covered, rest is a necessary and morally obligated thing you must do. You must take a rest. You must take it easy. You must put aside your chores, put away your work or school assignments and “have-tos”, then sit on back and…relax. Relax. It’s something you have to do. Like I said, the big magical sky daddy himself did it. You can too. You’ve been putting that off haven’t you? You’ve felt compelled to always get something done, never leaving yourself any time to just like…chill, once in a while. You’ve gotten so wrapped up in your to-do list that you haven’t even looked at your wish list of things you want to do, things you enjoy doing. Even when you’re quote on quote “multi-tasking, you’re procrastinating another task, even for a brief few seconds to do another. You stop typing a paper to check your e-mail. You stop reading your e-mail to answer a phone call. You put the person you’re talking to on hold to look up something in the database. These little “stops” you take while “multi-tasking” are little moments of procrastination. That doesn’t mean you aren’t doing *anything*. It just means you aren’t doing a specific something (while you go ahead and do a specific something else) I put “multi-tasking” in quotes by the way, because face it, there’s really no such thing as multi-tasking anyway, I mean, let’s be real here. There’s focusing on one task versus rapidly switching between a bunch of them, but doing more than one thing at a time, which is what is often associated with the phrase “multi-tasking”, is nearly humanly impossible, unless of course you happen to be a circus acrobat, in which case I suppose that point is moot.  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.  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, N8 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.  The stock market is on quite a downslope too rn. It's a shame, but it seems the "decentralized" market (of crypto) is following the same trends of wall street. Shows you it's not the government who regulates the economy as much as it is the billionaire wall street investors. Crypto has become just another playground for the rich kids, but I digress. The market continues to dip. And people continue to avoid it like the plague. And those are the same people who say "Man, I wish I bought Bitcoin when it was only $200 or Ethereum when it was only twenty bucks." Or they’ll say “Man I wish I bought Amazon stock when it was only a couple dozen bucks”  But here's the thing, if you ain't gonna buy now, you would NOT have bought then. Let me say that to you again: If you aren’t buying in the market right freaking now, you would not have bought it during the supposed “glory days” when it was the right time to buy. Let me tell you about the “glory days”. The glory days weren’t so glorious when they were around. I mean look, the opportunity to buy stock or crypto at a low price wasn’t when the market was doing well. It wasn’t when people were profiting like mad and becoming millionaires. No. It was when the market was a scary place to be. It was when there was FUD, that fear, uncertainty and doubt. It was when it was a scary place to be. It was when the market was an utter shit hole if we’re being honest. Back then? It was an intimidating dip in the market that was going down until an unforeseeable time in the future -- just like we're seeing now. History repeats itself, man. Let's recap in case you forgot! A little history lesson here. We’ll take a gander at Bitcoin as an example. 2013, that was the year Bitcoin rose from $13 a pop to a whopping $1100. After surging up to that price. What happened? An epic crash! All the way down to around $400. We're seeing a similar crash, now folks.  If you ain't buying now, you're gonna be whining and complaining in a few years about how you wish you bought bitcoin when it was under $40k. The market scared you away before and you DIDN'T buy. And you're gonna let it scare you again? I'll quote the dude who posted the original "HODL" quote from back in the day when we saw this same type of crazy crash: "You only sell in a bear market if you are a good day trader or an illusioned noob. The people inbetween hold. In a zero-sum game such as this, traders can only take your money if you sell.” He’s saying you gotta procrastinate selling off your holdings, folks. Don’t give into the panic and fear that comes about during a huge crash like this. Relax dude. It’s only a crisis if you make it out to be. Waves come n’ go, but if you panic when a wave comes, instead of just floating on, you’ll surely drown. Even if it was a great economic downfall. Did you know the stock market has been in an upward trend since the freaking Great Depression, arguably one of the worst economic times in history? Look, if the economy/market can recover from the Great goddamn Depression, it can recover from any little dip in the market. And remember, as a wise man once said "Time IN the market is better than timing the market." Buy, hodl, and ride the roller coaster folks. Just lay back in your lazy and wait for the storm to pass. And it will pass…eventually. Low n’ slow is the way to go when it comes to your money. Be patient. Procrastinate selling. Have the patience of a procrastinator. Tell yourself you’ll get to selling “later”. Not financial advice, just telling you how I see it. Please, don’t take this as any sort of advice. Always DYOR to make your OWN informed decisions. Don’t be making investments with your money based on what you read on a blog written by some random lazy ass dude. Take responsibility for your own financial choices. Anyway, that said. I'm telling you, personally, I had over three dozen Bitcoin at one point. And you know what? I got scared of the crash and sold at a few hundred dollars at a loss. Use me as a case study. I could have been a fucking millionaire right now if I did the procrastin8r thing and just waited it out and held. But hey, we live and we learn. We learn to embrace our laziness and let good things come in due time, let good things come eventually. You may not make it rich quick, but you can make it rich slowly. Take your time to STAY in the market, rather than rush on the hype.  One rule of thumb you could follow is to do the opposite of what everyone else is doing in the market. If people are panic-selling, well then that’s the time to buy. If people are banging on the hype and buying, well that’s the time to sell. You want to do the opposite of what “everybody” else is doing. That’ll put you in a winning position. Like, you don’t want to sell when the market is a selling frenzy. You’ll only be accelerating the downslope. People see the market crashing. They’re afraid there won’t be an end to it. So they sell too. And more people see the market continuing to spiral downwards and it just creates this perpetual loop of mass hysteria. In the investment world there are only winners and losers. There are people that make bank and people that watch their life savings tear away. You’ve got to have a winning mindset in order to come out on top , and a winning mindset comes from the ability to THINK, logically and rationally think long-term. You can’t give into the short panicky bursts of emotional turmoil. Market or not, that’s not the procrastinator way. Always remain Cool, Calm, and Laid Back. I know. It may seem hard. Especially when you’re watching your investments plummet to oblivion. But really, it’s actually easier not to give a fuck. Don’t give a fuck with how the market is doing in the present. Give a little Yawn and say “whatever”. Instead of taking your money and running (at a loss), just take it easy, man.  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!”  I think what we’re seeing is an upward trend in the adaptation of blockchain tech . Facebook is building their own metaverse. Major sports leagues like the NFL and UFC are selling NFT trading cards and tickets. Adidas and Nike likewise sell clothing related NFTs. AMC hired game developers to create a metaverse game based in the Walking Dead universe. The list goes on and on of these major brands implementing the use of metaverses, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain technologies. More and more stores are accepting Bitcoin as payment. There are more and more games with NFTs being developed. As for stocks, I mean ya got blue chips like Coca Cola, which people are always gonna drink and McDonald’s, which people are gonna always eat. And I mean Amazon definitely ain’t going anywhere any time soon, nor is Google or Tesla for that matter. Look, it’s a dip the market. It happens. You may not like it. I mean, no one does to be fair. But hey, it’s just part of the game.  Sometimes you roll a nat 20, sometimes you roll a nat 1. Just the way the game goes sometimes. Now I’m going to share with you my little lazy investment strategy, if you wanna even call it that. I mean it’s as easy investing as it gets. Again. Not financial advice in any sense of the word. Anyhoot… I always just buy (a small amount of crypto) on a weekly basis, then hold. Having a consistent investment like that makes it so I don't gotta worry about what the market is doing. My gains makeup for my losses in the long run, because I'm always in the market, even if at times I buy at the "wrong time". There really is no "wrong time" when I put just small amounts in periodically. Putting large chunks in at a time is a larger risk. Besides, you don't lose anything unless you sell at a loss. I repeat: You don't LOSE until you SELL. The price is arbitrary. Consider it a negotiation. You're haggling to get the price you want and won't settle for less. The price on the market is what's being offered. You don't want what's on the table. You want more. And the best position in a negotiation is the ability to walk away and mean it. So walk away from the market, as in, refuse to sell to what price it's offering. They did the math. A user on Reddit calculated it takes an average of around 5 months for Bitcoin to recover after a 40% dip. So sit back and procrastinate selling off your holdings. Hibernate. It's winter time. Things will warm up soon. Just be patient. keep the mindset of "eventually". Eventually your earnings will grow. Eventually the prices will recover. Eventually, you'll be just fine. People try to live life to the extreme, attaining extreme amounts of success and wealth using extreme methods to make it happen. We’re given the premise to “go hard or go home”, but you know what?
Yeah, I’d rather go home. I’d rather lay on the couch all day and be in my lazy. I’d rather be relaxed and happy than overworked and overstressed. I’d rather be inside and at ease than go out and make things hard for myself. That’s not to say I won’t achieve, that’s not to say I won’t make things happen, but I do so within my means. And I do so…*eventually*. I put hard things off and take it one step at a time. I procrastinate…with purpose. Despite all these claims that you must “strive for the impossible,” I’d rather do what’s, I don’t know, actually fucking possible. I mean, I like to think of myself as a practical man, a lazy one perhaps, but also very practical. And in being practical, I know my limits. Of course, we’re told, “the sky is the limit”, implying that there really is no limit at all, because the sky is infinite. The sky expands to the stars, planets, and the whole galaxy. Basically, there is no limit. But let’s put this in perspective, shall we? We’re talking space. We’re talking countless intergalactic worlds above and beyond us. We’re talking a whole expansion of existence that we couldn’t even comprehend. And you wanna be one to think that you, a small human being, have no limits? None? Like at all? We’re basically little tiny specs of dust in the grand cosmos that like to think of ourselves as the most important thing in the entire universe. That’s not to say we as human beings are UNimportant, but to go as far as to believe we’re NOT limited is very…impractical, to say the least. We as humans can of course do wonderful things, absolutely fascinating and marvelous things. But to believe that there’s nothing that “can’t” be done, well, now you’re just admitting you’ve been brainwashed. I mean, fuck, imagine a Moose. And this moose is self conscious. He is capable of his own thoughts, and you know what he thinks of a lot about? He thinks a lot about how he wants to become more than a moose. He wants to achieve the greatest thing moose-kind has ever witnessed. He wants to push beyond his limits! You’d be like, dude calm down, you’re a moose! Go enjoy being a moose, doing moose things. Now imagine if all his moose buddies also believed the same thing -- that they’re gonna change the world in some big elaborate fashion. You’d be like, okay maybe some of you are some exceptional moose here and can really change the world one day, but I mean, not every single one of you moose are gonna pull off something spectacular. The same goes for us, the same goes for people. Face it, we can’t ALL be the exception. We can’t all make something big happen. But that’s okay. That’s completely okay. It’s okay to not want to be big or make big things happen. It’s okay to do….just enough. It's okay to be an Average Joe or Jane. Put it this way, most people in history, upon the billions and billions of people on Earth that have ever existed, haven’t made the history books. Yet, we all seem to want to try and make a name for ourselves. We get so obsessed with making a mass impact that we fail to appreciate the role in which we live in. We’re so passionate about what *could be, that we fail to even notice what is. We live our lives in an imaginary future, rather than in the reality of the present. And that makes us blind to just how dang good we already have it. Besides, making a name for yourself ain’t all it cracked up to be. I mean, think about it, just because you did something to hit the history books in your life, doesn’t mean you lived a good life.It just means you lived a life worth writing about. But a life worth writing about isn’t necessarily a good life. Look at the news, what are they writing about? All the murders, the diseases, the disasters, the drama. That’s what sells the newspapers. Heck, guys like Hitler and Stalin have made history. And I know that there are also wonderful people like Martin Luther King, as we just celebrated recently, Gandhi, and others of the like. I’m not trying to downplay the positive heroes and heroines of history. Point I’m trying to make here though is that being a big deal in the eyes of society (and history) is really not that big of a deal. It’s better to live a humble life, a lazy life, and actually be a good person than it is to make your life a boasting performance. That’s not to say you can’t perform and do great things that influence people and make a change for the world. You can make little changes. You can do just enough and still have lived a worthwhile life, whether or not your name is remembered centuries from now. Perhaps your role is to be a great friend, father, sister or brother to the Messiah and not the Messiah him/herself. I mean, we of course, all like to think of ourselves as the protagonist of our own story. And because of all these TV shows and movies, we fall in love with the idea of being some sort of hero. So let me put it this way: Perhaps you’re not the hero, but the sword merchant that sells the hero the sword that is ultimately used to slay the dragon. What I’m getting at here is this idea of balance, the idea of doing JUST ENOUGH to get by, to fulfill your role in the universe at large, even if it’s really not that much, even if you’re not the big hero. You can be the sidekick and still kick ass! Maybe your role isn’t to work hard and succeed, but to relax and be lazy, remind people that there’s admiration in leisure, in taking time to rest and be at your ebay. I’m not about to get up n’ go just for the sake of getting up n’ going. There’s no sense to “git r dun” right away when I have all the time in the world. Of course, one might claim oh no! Time here in life is limited. You must make the best of it. And I suppose at this point it becomes a philosophical debate over what exactly allows a person to “make the best of life.” Is it obtaining external perks like notoriety or fame or hordes and hordes of wealth? Or is it finding inner-peace and happiness within yourself? I’ll leave that up to you to decide. To each his own I suppose, but I’m here to tell you what the procrastin8r does. That’s my mantra. One of the most vital aspects I aim for, personally, is balance. The procrastin8r lives a life of balance. He never does too much of anything. Obviously over-doing something is not in his nature -- never overworked, overtired or overstressed. He never does too little either. While it may not get done *right away*, it does get done *eventually*. Shit will happen, slow n’ steady. There will be *just enough* progress to matter. Now let’s briefly get into how balance looks in the different aspects of your life, briefly, how being a regular dude and not some sort of hero to the world.. Balancing Your Riches: We all think that we want to be rich, but what does being rich even mean? Certainly, a luxury car and fancy mansion might be nice to have, it’s not really what makes you happy. It’s not even really what you want when you think about getting rich. What makes you happy is freedom. That’s what you really want from obtaining lots of wealth. You want enough money to give you the the freedom to do what you want, when you want, without feeling the heavy burden of bills to pay or mouths to feed. Aim not to collect an obsessive amount of material things, just for the pure sake of a grand collection, but to collect for yourself *just enough* to make ends meet and give you freedom. You don't want to be so poor that you're struggling to survive, but at the same time you don't want to be so rich that you stifle the ability for others to cover their basic needs. Richness in balance is financial freedom. Balancing Your Relationships: You can’t give too much, because that makes you a people pleaser. And being a people pleaser Is a full time job. You don’t want a full time job, so don’t make one for yourself! Now of course, if you take too much for yourself and demand too much from others that just makes you a flat out selfish prick. Don’t do that. Remember never do *too* much of anything, as a procrastin8r. Always do *just enough*, nothing more, nothing less. Give n’ take. That’s the basic premise of any healthy relationship. Balancing Your Career You can’t work too hard or you’ll burn out. Likewise, you can’t rest too much and not make *any* progress. You must move forward, ever steady n’ ever slowly, taking necessary breaks when necessary. Take days to just lay around doing nothing. Give your mind, body, and spirit time to rejuvenate so you can tackle things with full energy. I feel like each of these aspects of balance is something we can cover in deeper detail in the future. Perhaps in the oncoming weeks. But that’s enough for now. Trying to keep things balanced :) For now, take it easy, N8 |
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