Ways to Fight and Overcome Laziness
You read productivity tips, you've used a million todo list apps, and you promise yourself every month that you're going to start being productive, but it never happens. Here's how to break the cycle when you feel like your problem is just laziness.
Simple things first: It's important to get started with the task you're willing to perform in order to fight laziness. Doing so will help you to break your inner resistance.
Stepbystep: And it will keep us motivated to perform these tasks one after the other in a relaxed manner. Once you have completed one subtask you can tell yourself that you're on a roll and that you will soon have finished the next subtasks as well.
Remove distractions: Whatever it is that distracts you (TV, the Internet, etc.), remove it! Make sure that once you have started with one of your tasks, you will not get distracted from it by any means.
Reward yourself: Every time you manage to overcome laziness and successfully complete a task you should reward yourself, as this will give you positive feeling about making efforts to get things done. Little reward for small efforts and vice versa (反之亦然).
Don't give up: It's one thing to find your motivation. Rather than letting difficulties demotivate you, see them for what they are and refuse to be beaten by them. You're not alone and staying focused on working through challenges is one of the best ways to fight them.
A. Turn off distractions and focus on your goals.
B. Just make sure to adapt the reward to the efforts you made.
C. A list of weekly goals will help you stay focused and motivated.
D. A method that helps you do so is to start with the simple things first.
E. Occasional rewards will sweeten the tasks and help keep you on track.
F. But it's quite something else to keep it going when running into difficult problems.
G. Breaking down tasks into smaller tasks helps us to reduce the pressure of deadlines.
