What is lazy?
Are you lazy if you don’t work yourself to the ground for every goal you pursue?
If you don’t set lofty goals for yourself?
If, having set your lofty goals, you sit down, filing your nails, until inspiration kicks in and you take action?
If you rest when you’re tired?
If you avoid doing hard things, or find easy ways to do hard things?
If you set some things aside until you’re ready to do them? If you let things work themselves out?
The problem with “lazy” is that it doesn’t have a clear, objective definition. Lazy is an emotion.
When you think someone’s not taking action fast enough or often enough, you feel they’re lazy. Most times, that someone is yourself.
You berate yourself when you’re not “doing enough,” not struggling enough––”I’m lazy,” you say, because that’s what your teachers and caregivers called you when your activity level wasn’t to their satisfaction. Or when you didn’t take the actions they told you to take.
“Lazy” is loaded with negative emotion that makes you suffer. It lowers your wellbeing, pushing you to an even less proactive state. It becomes a vicious circle: the “lazier” you feel, the less you act, and the “lazier” you feel, and the less you act.
But what happens when you remove lazy from your lexicon? Or even more radical, when you accept “lazy” as a wonderfully effective feature of your inner being?
Lazy then means you monitor your energy levels and act accordingly. Lazy becomes synonymous with intuitive, wise, efficient.
Lazy tells you what and what’s not worth your attention.
What will you gain when you embrace lazy as your inner being’s top performance feature?
Love,
Carolina
Carolina Perez Sanz 