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I am teaching you to be “lazy”, and that is a good thing, being lazy is going to improve your life. But you don’t want to lean back all the way in your chair to the point where you fall over into the extreme side of the spectrum and become “unmotivated.
Before we dive any deeper into the Lazy Mindset, it is important to establish a bit of a clarification here. A lazy person stimulates their mind and body in the way that they want to. They learn the things that they feel like learning about, not what is required by class. They work on the projects that they want to work on, not what is required by their boss. Being lazy means you do what you want, when you want. You do what you feel like doing, even if you’re doing nothing, or at least projecting the image of doing nothing -- do seemingly nothing. Being unmotivated means you don’t do anything, whether you want to or not. You simply waste time. It’s not seemingly doing nothing, it’s actually doing nothing. You settle for simple answers and refuse to learn new things; you stop exploring. You don’t work on any projects at all, whether you have to get it done for someone or desire to complete it as a personal project. Laziness is having a focus on minimizing work. Unmotivation is having confusion on what to do with your life or how to do it. Laziness is acting passive. Unmotivation is acting just completely unresponsive and dormant. Laziness is putting in as little effort as possible and still getting things done. Unmotivation is putting in absolutely no effort at all. (Unmotivation. I’m coining that term, by the way, meaning lack of motivation. Shakespeare invented words, so can I. Also, I’m too lazy to come up with a synonym.) You want to be a procrastinator, but not a complete bum. You want to be someone that “seems lazy but still gets shit done,” not someone who “doesn’t do shit.” You want to be someone who is laid back about getting work done, someone who doesn’t stress out about it or gets too hectic about it, not someone who doesn’t get any work done at all. Procrastinators earn success in life by taking the easy way to get there, while bums go absolutely no where. The fact that you’re reading a blog on how to be lazy, tells me you’r e on the right path. See, you’re reading and learning material that interests you. You’re reading what you want to and aren’t necessarily concerned about what you OUGHT to be reading otherwise. Oh and you are certainly not just sitting there twiddling your thumbs or sleeping, like a bum. You are, quite simply, motivated to do nothing, or like I said, seemingly do nothing, as opposed to unmotivated to do anything at all. Now I’m not saying that if you should quit your job or drop out of school tomorrow. Firstly, you have to adapt the right mental attitude. Second, you have to establish a strong lazy nest before you even consider taking that step, You have to make sure the sofa is comfy and big enough before you dive right into it. In other words, your lazy lifestyle has to be able to pay your bills and keep food on the table. Quitting at this point would mean you’re acting like a bum; it would mean you’re being unmotivated. Just like everything else, laziness is good in moderation. Laziness is the tool that is going to get you to success. You want to aim to be as lazy as possible and to be a passive procrastinator, but eventually you’ll see that as just a stepping stone for what you really want to become. For now, embrace your procrastination habits, but just know that there is an extreme that you should avoid. I’ll get into understanding the extremities of laziness in a later blog. Until then stay motivated...to do nothing! -N8
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If you’re lazy enough, you can get things done without having to actually get things done.
If you’ve been following my blog so far, the main focus so far has been developing the Lazy Mindset. I know what you’re thinking: Nate, when the f*ck are we going to learn actual methods on how to make money online? But look, we need to become the procrastinator mentally, become what he thinks, become how he feels; we have to embody the procrastinator’s attitude before we can do what he does in a practical sense. I could go ahead and teach you all my secrets, and you could follow the steps I outline, but you’re not going to be successful if you don’t have the proper mental attitude. You need to BE lazy. Laziness has to actually become you, not just a word you think describes you. You must be lazy and lazy must be you. You may think you’re lazy but you’re not. You need to become lazy at it’s very core. Capeesh? Last week, I talked about how laziness inspires invention and creativity; and how it brings about convenience and efficiency. Today, we’re going to focus on how being lazy can help you prioritize your daily tasks. I remember back in college I would have an important mid term paper due. I would do my laundry, clean my room, take out the trash, read a few chapters in a novel, complete prep for my radio show, go out and run a couple miles, organize my desk, and about a dozen other little chores. Yet the only progress I would make in writing my paper would be opening up Microsoft Word. It’s amazing how productive I can be while procrastinating. I was putting off something that needed to be done as soon as possible by doing other trivial tasks that needed to get done yet weren’t an immediate concern. Going back further in time a bit: In grade school, we had a reading assignment for one of my favorite books: the Hobbit. I had read the adventures of Bilbo and the dwarves probably at least half a dozen times before it was assigned to class. I love Tolkien and I love his books. I would debate about the book with my friends for fun. I collected Lord of the Rings memorabilia. I played the video games. I watched the movies. Yet, when it came to actually completing an assignment on the Hobbit that was required for class, I wanted nothing to do with it. I dreaded reading it one more time and having to write about, fill out work sheets, and take a test on it. I would complain about all this work I had to do. I remember my mother saying “I thought you loved that book. You’re just being lazy.” With a pocketful of other experiences and anecdotes similar to the ones I shared above, it eventually dawned on me: I hated work with DEADLINES. And I hated work that I HAD to do. Somehow, I could complete every single trivial task on my To Do list, but I didn’t even put my name on the top yet alone write the first sentence in a paper that was due in less than 24 hours. Somehow, I could write fan fiction, persuasive essays, and epic speeches about the Hobbit when it was something I wanted to do, but when I was required to do it for academic reasons, when it was EXPECTED of me to put in work about the book, I hated it. I loathed it. (I actually didn’t touch that book or any of the LOTR series for a long time. It took me years to find how much I loved it again, and let me tell you I’m glad I did pick up that book once more. Oh, but I’m NOT glad I watched the Hobbit movie. Watch. If you even want to call it that. More like try to keep my eyes open. Those movies are so boring. They move so slowly. They dive into subplots that don’t exist in the book and frankly don’t need to. Then Peter Jackson has to show every little detail of every single scene. Look at the rocks, and the trees, and the mountains, and the hills, and the valleys. Okay, Peter, we get it. Nature. Let’s move this forward. And no, we don’t need a three part series for one of the shortest books in the Lord of the Rings universe. The 1977 cartoon version of the Hobbit was actually better. Okay, end of tangent rant. back on topic.) See, people will call you lazy if you don’t do what you have to do, what you ought to do, what you should do, what’s expected of you. People call you lazy if you don’t meet dead lines, if you’re late, if you well, procrastinate. I say accept that as a compliment. Embrace your laziness. Be a procrastinator. If you make your own deadlines because you want to and not because you have to, you can do the most challenging of tasks (and it won’t even seem challenging because you chose to do it). I could have easily wrote a ten page paper if I wanted to, but I was too lazy to make it past six because I felt obligated to write it. Take away the obligation in what you must do and suddenly you can do a lot more than you expected. The procrastinator does what he wants and he makes his own schedule. Everything is done based on his desire and his time. His decision. He’s too lazy to do otherwise. He doesn’t waste time, resources, or energy fulfilling the desires, time, resources, or energy of other people. Because simply, he also doesn’t give a f*ck about what other people think. Mainly because he’s too lazy to care. But that’s another topic for another day that I’ll write in detail later. Eventually. I just don’t want to right now. -N8 |
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