Laziness and Procrastination Don’t Exist?
Mark Joyner, in his free Simpleology self improvement course, says there’s no such thing laziness and procrastination, because they imply inaction.
You see, there’s no such thing as an inaction. Everything you do is an action. Sitting on your butt is an action.
And all actions have reactions. The reaction caused by sitting on your butt is that you don’t come any closer to your goal — and you probably even move away from it.
You may think you’re being lazy, but you’re really not, according to Joyner. You’re accomplishing sitting around, getting fat, and not advancing toward your goals.
I think this is a good way to look at motivation, because if you have goals you want to accomplish, you will then do the actions needed to create the reactions that get you on your path. So if you need to lose weight, you won’t watch TV (since that’s an action that causes a reaction of your body not burning calories).
“Action and reaction” is an inescapable law of the universe. You are always doing actions, which achieve reactions. “Laziness and procrastination are just the wrong actions masquerading as inactions,” says Joyner.
So now for you the only question is, what is your goal? Do you want to get fat? Flunk out of school? Go bankrupt?
Or do you want to make a million dollars? Find the woman or man of your dream? Train for a marathon?
All actions have an inevitable reaction. The key is deciding on what reaction you want.
