All my life, I was afraid of being a ‘lazy’ person. I was never very interested in ‘normal’ things, and I did many different things for a living. Up until last year, I was fighting myself, trying to find some information that would offer hope. I wouldn’t even take clients for ’self-motivation’ because I couldn’t get results in that area for myself.

I don’t believe in lazy. Last year, a friend of mine came up with a process that finally ‘worked’ for me, after the failure of so many other methods. I’ve now used this process to change many things about myself.

After I learned the process, and truly understood its power, it STILL took me over a week to DO the process. I sat down one night, went through all the preparation, and was all set to end my reluctance to get up in the morning.

I couldn’t do it.

All I had to do to finish the process was squeeze my hand, and I simply couldn’t bring myself to do it.

It was at that precise point that I had a revelation. I knew it couldn’t be laziness, because it was only going to take 4 more seconds to finish the process. NO ONE is THAT lazy, I realized.

I was afraid. That’s what everything boiled down to. I couldn’t squeeze because I was afraid of the responsibility I would have, if this worked. I’d have no excuse to remain the way I was. This would change everything.

I reveled in the new knowledge, because I finally realized I had never been lazy - just afraid. I enjoyed the knowledge for a few moments, laughed at myself, and squeezed.

Nothing has been the same since.

Here are the three things that may be masquerading as laziness in your life.

1. Procrastination. This is what I was dealing with. Procrastination is putting off something you intend to do. It’s an active thing - you are pushing the task away from you, because of pain. Procrastination lives exclusively in the domain of pain and fear.

2. Lack of motivation. This is simply when your values do not match your goals. Values are the things that are important to you - what you spend your time, money, effort, and thoughts on. Goals are the things you want to accomplish. When a goal isn’t important to you, why would it EVER be accomplished? Duh.

3. Not knowing what you want. If you don’t know what it is that you want, how will you ever achieve it? Most people fail to be specific in their goals - instead they leave their future in ‘dreamland’, where it’s always far away.

Now, this isn’t an either/or situation. Many times all three issues are present, and they must all be dealt with. Procrastination is dealt with by moving to a positive motivation instead of a negative one. Lack of motivation is dealt with by simply deciding what you want both to be, then making it so. Not knowing what you want is dealt with by sitting down and actually thinking clearly about it - with pen and paper.
Dealing with these three issues will revolutionize your life in such dramatic ways, you’ll be left breathless.

Jeremy