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Well fellow procrasitn8r, the time has come for a huge crash in the market. I told you winter was coming, and well, winter is here now. The cold, cold winds of red candles on the investment charts have arrived. It’s enough to send you shivering in your boots. But seriously, you’ve no doubt heard about the great market crash of 2022. Bitcoin is at the lowest price it's been since July, treading below $40k. And of course, Ethereum, Solana, and the rest of the crypto market is pretty much determined by the direction Bitcoin is moving and thus, is on a bit of a down slope as well. And “bit” is definitely” an EXTREME underestimate here. We’re seeing falls of over 50% in the price some alt coins. Aaaand that’s the just the crypto market.  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.
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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 We live in such a fast-paced world. Everything is expected to happen NOW, immediately, without hesitation.” C’mon! Get up! Chop! Chop! Move… NOW! No, like yesterday, actually. Get going!”
That’s the sort of directive that’s established here in this rapid world we’re in. And because of this haste-ridden protocol we’re accustomed to follow, we become so overwhelmed so easily. I mean, there’s simply so much to do that we can’t keep up. Or at least it feels that way, don’t it? Right now, you’re probably thinking of about a dozen and a half different things you gotta do and you may even feel you’re wasting time just sittin’ here reading this blog. Maybe you’re even multi-tasking, perhaps doing research in another tab cause ya gotta finish that paper or maybe you’re reading this on your phone while texting people ‘cause you gotta keep up on that social life. We’re doing a lot of shit, but we aren’t really focused. We’re moving just to move. We’re going just to go. Working just to work. Doing just to do. All this with no real target in mind. Ambiguous ambition, if you will. We’re being active just for the mere dear sake of being active. We tend to believe that ya gotta have some activity in life going on. Otherwise you’ll be wasting time. Wasting time! Oh no! The absolute bane of society here, right? Man, I’ll tell you the time you enjoy wasting is NOT wasted time. Being able to do nothing and mean it, well, there’s admiration in that, fellow procrastinator, admiration indeed. It’s quite a perk to hold the uncanny ability to do whatever you want, even IF that thing you want to do is absolutely goddamn nothing. Yet look at us. We’re all moving so freaking fast to destination: no where. We’re buzzin’ an hoppin’ around like busy little fucktards. We’re in a hurry, always in a hurry to get things done, to run from one task to the next, never stopping to rest, never taking time to just like, chill once in a while. We lock ourselves in a perpetual state of nonstop momentum. And it frankly, just tires us the fuck out. We’re left feeling depleted, just worn down entirely. We’re burdened by stress and tormented by the pressure to “pull up your boot straps” and keep going, despite all this lingering stress and headaches we’re experiencing along the way. And it’s this “better keep up the pace” mindset that makes life seem so dull, a dreary mess, where nothing seems to have a point. Work ‘til you die. I’m sure you heard that phrase before, but that’s literally what happens if you keep pushing yourself. Don’t push yourself. Pace yourself. Take your time to do things. Slow it down. Way down. And for god fucking sake, take a break once in a while, will ya? Sheesh. Look what’s happening in our lives. From our work commitments to our responsibilities at home and even our social commitments, we have so much booked in our schedule that we never put aside time to be fully and completely relax -- other than of course, the holidays, which is the one time of year where people do let loose and stop pushing themselves to succeed, as we covered earlier. We gotta finish that report, we gotta fix the leak in the bathroom, we gotta go meet up with our friends at the bar, we gotta pick up the groceries, pay the bills, e-mail our boss, put the dishes away, take out the dog and the trash, shop for a new pair of shoes, give our parents a call. Of course, you might have been trying to skip that last one. Point is, there’s always something we’re running around and doing. Always. But here’s the thing, fellow procrastinator, you’re gonna love this… It’s okay NOT to succeed all the time. Now I don’t mean in the sense that you wind up UNsuccessful. That would be a bit counterintuitive. Of course, failure is inevitable at times, and more or less part of the learning process, so failure isn’t what makes you unsuccessful either. It’s okay to fail. Mistakes are Meh. So when I say you don’t need to succeed I don’t mean you need to flip and do the opposite and completely fail. Besides failure is just an obstacle not the end result. I simply mean you don’t have to always “git r dun”, so to speak. You don’t have to constantly be moving about or making things happen, and you don’t have to do it so hastily at that. You can do…absolutely fucking nothing. At least once in a while, and that’s completely okay. It’s perfectly fine to do nothing. In fact, I’d reckon it’s better to do nothing and feel great about yourself, than it is to do *something* and feel completely wasted. A wise man once said ““It’s better to have loft and lost than to have never loft at all.” Stop making yourself so damn busy. You’re *too* busy. And a lot of people may hear that and take that as a compliment. If they’re told they’re too busy, they’ll be like “heck yeah!” and celebrate it like it's some sort of good thing. Spoiler Alert: It’s not. Being “too” much of anything isn’t good. Like at all. Everything *is good* in moderation. Everything is good in balance. You must balance yourself. Take a step back from your oh so busy schedule. And relax (and not just during the holiday at that!) I know I’ve made that point a lot lately, but I’m trying to get you to see that it is indeed *possible* to let go of all these duties, all these obligations, put them to the side and give yourself a break, without becoming some sort of failure. You don’t fail by resting. You fail by trying too hard and not succeeding. What I’m trying to say here is you don’t have to “succeed” as in try to achieve, make progress towards a goal, or otherwise do something productive in order to meet some form of accomplishment all the time. Certainly, it’s healthy to make progress in your life, but will you just take it, easy, man? Slow down a bit. If you think about it, all those little tasks we do throughout the day -- whether it’s vacuuming the carpet or preparing a PowerPoint presentation, or going over a textbook or meeting notesor whatever finicky task you put effort towards is some effort or attempt to “succeed” in some way. It’s our intention to move forward in some way, and ya know we feel we gotta do it quickly. Like it’s gotta happen now or never. I know it’s odd to say not to always “succeed, so let me re-word and put it this way: you don’t have to *always* be working towards success in order to succeed. Part of succeeding is resting, taking necessary breaks. Part of succeeding is letting go of your duties and obligations for a bit, while you, get this, do NOTHING. Let your mind rest. Let your body recover. Let your emotions recharge. Become calm. Become Lazy! It’s the old tortoise and the hare tale. If you run too fast, you’ll burn out, and wind up exhausted but if you take your time, you’ll get there…slow n’ steady. To put it in a single word, “Eventually” is what sums up the mindset you need to adapt. Saying to yourself “eventually” you’ll figure it out, “eventually” you’ll get there, “eventually” you’ll make it happen will relieve so much tension and so much stress, as opposed to the single-worded mindset of NOW. The standard time frame of *anything* happening in society though is instantaneous. With the ability to swipe right to find a date, order pizza at the click of a button, and ask a device sitting on your kitchen counter any question in the world and get an immediate answer, we’ve become so adapted, so used to getting what we want within seconds. And it’s easy to become addicted to that instant gratification. Because the world arounds us offers access to what we want in just a few short quick moments, we tend to apply that to ourselves and our own means of goals and lifestyle choices. For example, you don’t want to wait to build a successful career, you want that successful career NOW. You don’t want to take time to build a happy and healthy relationship, you want to find the love of your life NOW. You don’t want to puts around trying to make yourself happy, you want to be happy NOW. But here’s the thing, folks… Speed causes stress. Speed is what causes us to be on the edge and so uptight. It is the reason we put so much pressure on ourselves to the point where we’re toppling over trying to carry and lift that burden. The more we rush, the faster and harder we crash. Think about how many arguments you could have avoided if you took a step back to reflect instead of hastily jumping to conclusions. Think about how many dress-induced panic attacks you could have forgoed had you taken the time to relax instead of constantly moving. Think about the goals you could have accomplished if you hadn’t burned out before reaching them. If you really sit down and think about it, the sole reason any of your problems in your life become so overbearing is because you were rushing to try and find a solution, instead of “eventually” finding one…later. Even if a problem pops up unexpectedly, like your car breaks down or you go through a heavy break up or your best friend dies, while these things happen quickly, it doesn’t require a quick and immediate reaction on your part. Life is full of unpredictable shenanigans. You have the choice to either jolt up and acton your initial reaction and feeling or take the time to step back, reflect on your thoughts and emotions, then move forward with a strategic decision. Acting on your immediate response usually leads to terrible consequences. When has it ever helped you to yell immediately when you feel anger? When has it ever been beneficial for you to scream when something stresses you out? When have you ever gained an advantage by doing something out of jealousy? Impulse is a terrible habit, yet it's easy to pick up. In the world of immediate gratifications, we tend to let our emotions take the steering wheel and drive where were going, and, well more often than not, that leads us to quite a messy crash, where we hurt ourselves, we hurt others. So much pain, so much drama, so much life hassle, worry, and stress can all be avoided, completely null n’ void if we just take the time to relax ourselves, ya know give ourselves a break and allow ourselves to slowly, but surely, find the best course of action in any given scenario. Now of course, taking your time to do things like solving your problems doesn’t work as a band-aid. It doesn’t just magically heal your wounds and cure the pain. But it does allow you to properly treat the pain rather than rushing Think about a surgeon, he’s gotta take his time, slow n’ steady, in order to perform a successful operation. Imagine if you had a surgeon rushing to get his job done. You wouldn’t want him picking around your body. He’d cause more harm than help if he was swiftly sharpening his scalpel, then proceeding to go to stab town. Treat your life like your job is a surgeon, not a racecar driver. Your goal is to be accurate and efficient, not win the race. Now before we wrap up, I want you to repeat this phrase with me, as it’s the real main takeaway I’m trying to make here. You ready? Here it is: I'm my best when I’m at rest Say it with me now: I’m my best when I’m at rest. You have to give yourself a day off, a real day off, not a fake day off, where you take the day off from work and wind up spending the day catching up on errands and chores. Just like your phone needs to be plugged in to recharge its battery, so to do you need to be plugged in (to the couch and at) in order to recharg eyour battery. You need to embrace your inner sloth, be slow, smooth, and deliberate in all your decisions. And for god’s sake man, take it easy. -N8 Well fellow ProcrastiN8rs, here we are, a new year, and same ole’ lazy me.
I’m not one to follow the tradition of making a grand New Year’s Resolution, as I’ve talked about in previous years.]I mean it’s nothing but a waste of time. You wind up striving for an accomplishment that is beyond your capability. You start going to the gym to lose weight only to wind up back at the McDonal’ds drive thru about a month later. You go start your big successful business only to wind up bankrupt and jobless when you realize you're way above your head. That’s the thing about New Year’s Resolutions is they're too vague and too big to ever truly make happen. You gotta make easy goals, lazy goals -- small little ones you can actually do, even if it ain’t really that much. Accomplish “just enough”, not anything extravagant. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to make big moves. After all, you’ll likely burn out in attempts to do so, leading yourself to exhaustion before ever finishing what you set out to do. Remember, slow n’ steady wins the race. Move like a sloth, climbing up that tree, to the top of your goal, nice and freaking slow. Take things nice n’ slow, man, like our spirit animal, the good cuddly sloth. Relax on into your goals. Don’t push for them. Goal achieving doesn’t need to be any sort of hard work or vigorous effort. Make your life simple. You’ll get there…eventually. Ah, the favorite word of a true procrstin8r -- eventually. Eventually is not a time frame, but a mindset. You have in mind that no matter what, you’ll get there, you’ll make it happen, you’ll make do. It may not happen tomorrow, or even really any time soon, but it will happen *eventually*, at some point, in the future. This mindset alone makes it easier to accomplish goals because for one, you’re no longer pressuring yourself to achieve things by a certain deadline or due date. For another, you give yourself plenty of rest to have energy to actually get the thing done that you want to do, as opposed to exhausting yourself to the point of mental, physical, and emotional fatigue. And finally, you also have a positive outlook towards your goals, because even if you hit failure, it’s no big deal; you trust the process and will still get there “eventually.” Now let’s take a deeper dive into why “Eventually” is better than a New Year’s Resolution Deadlines are bullshit. All they do is force things to get done within a certain time frame, not necessarily done with quality effort or even thoughtful effort. And it goes to say, the “deadline” of one single year, underneath a New Year’s Resolution is likewise, bullshit and absolute garbage. Look at the amount of video games that are rushed to the shelves, to hit a specific launch date, only to be bug-ridden messes upon release. Had game developers taken the time to create, I don’t know, an actual functional product, instead of blitzing through the production process just to land the mark on a very specific date on the calendar, then they could avoid the whole causing PCs and consoles to crash on launch day thing. Don’t be the game developer rushing their new game to the shelves. Take your time. Release the game…eventually. That is to say, don’t be so concerned about making your goal happen within a certain time frame that you negate doing any sort of good job at it. Quality is better than punctuality. Live life at your own pace. Do things when you want, if you even want to in the first place. And certainly, don’t put yourself under the pressure to enhance your life in an elaborate way within only twelve months. The more you focus on being on time, the less you focus on doing well. And even if you do manage to do well AND still meet the supposed deadline you set for yourself, well now you’re left completely depleted of energy, just completely drained. Move forward, but not too quickly. Achieve but don’t overachieve. Accomplish goals but don’t *strive* for them. Minimize effort and maximize results. That’s the key formula here. Put in a little bit at a time. I mean how do you eat a whole elephant? One. Bite. At a time. How do you travel 10 million miles on foot? One. Step. At a time. How do you become a millionaire? One. Cent. At a time. There’s a lot of pressure here, in this gun-ho work hard ‘til you die society that you gotta make something absolutely HUGE happen within a year. And if you don’t well that just makes you a lazy son of a bitch. But so what if I’m a lazy son of a bitch? Look, I value my own sanity over the approval of others. Aim to do the same. Stop giving a fuck about what people want or expect of you. Live your life in such a way that you fulfill your own desires, not in a way that fulfills the desires of others. Besides, most people that disapprove of your “lazy” ways have no independent thoughts or feelings for themselves. They follow a life protocol they’ve been handed as a child, and criticize anyone who doesn’t follow the outline (which they didn’t even write for themselves) to an absolute T as an adult. They basically never grow up and stick to the brainwashed beliefs they were force fed as a child. It’s the reason people get upset when you don’t go to college or have kids or work a day job. That’s the story they were told to follow as kids and that’s the story they try to play out, even if they secretly don’t actually want kids or don’t want to work a corporate job. They suck up and don’t complain, because that’s what “you’re supposed to do.” You’re supposed to go to school and get a good-paying job. You’re supposed to raise a family. But us lazy sons of a bitches don’t suck up or buck up for anything we don’t want to participate in. People only hate us because we’re doing what they want, and they meanwhile don’t have the balls to do it. Most people would rather fit in and be miserable, than do something different that makes them happy. These corporate owners use this psychological need to belong against us. The whole premise of the “get a good job, get married, have kids” timeline is just to make you an obedient little corporate slave who produces offspring and creates even more obedient little corporate slaves. It’s all a ruse to keep you working and billionaires stuffing their fat wallets. Your only freedom is laziness. Laziness allows you to do what you want, when you want as opposed to doing what you’re told to do and when you’re told to do it. So when you’re told to make a Resolution, lay back in bed and give it a solid “No.” I’ll tell what, fam, in regards to achieving a resolution in a year. That just ain’t happening. I mean, let's be honest with ourselves here, Like, seriously. There’s really nothing HUGE you are going to accomplish within a single year. That’s just simply not enough time to make any sort of significant changes to your habits, personality, mental, emotional or physical wellbeing. I mean face it, 365 days is too little of a time frame to make these big moves everybody expects us to make. Any worthwhile goal is going to take more than a year. That’s a fact. Big goals take a BIG amount of time. And one year is pretty short, in the grand scheme of things. Here’s the thing about making a New year’s Resolution, in a nutshell. Either… A. You wind up burnt out before you even get a chance to make your NYR happen, or.. B. You get it done but wind up doing a very shitty job at it Low and slow is the way to go. Be lazy about your goals. Embrace your inner sloth and climb up that tree…eventually. Don’t try to jump up the branches swiftly -- you’ll probably end up falling and hurting yourself. Go carefully, slowly. Take it one little move at a time. Don’t push yourself to get up and go and do something BIG by the year 2023. I mean, it’s not that you can’t or won’t do something BIG and admirable and noteworthy. It’s just that, you’re willing to take a bit more than a year to make that happen. Procrastinate and put off your New Year’s Resolution ‘til later. You’ll do it….EVENTUALLY! Take it easy, N8 |
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