The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

by Library Mindset

You have no control over the results you get or not get. You can only control your actions and the work you do.

To be great at anything, you must do it daily and for a long time.

The hardest thing is to start. That’s where 95% of people are stuck. They never start. They keep waiting and making excuses.

Do what you say. Stop saying things and then just be lazy. Honor your word and do the things you say.

You adopt the habits of the person who is very close to you. Their good or bad habits become yours.

The choice is yours. The people you surround yourself will have a massive impact on your life. They will shape your thoughts, actions, and your life. The right people will improve your life, and the wrong ones will worsen your life.

If you want to change your thoughts, you must change everything you do.

You must classify your worries into two parts: 1) The things that you can control, and you can do something about it. 2) The things you can’t control, and you can’t do anything about them.

Worrying about things you can’t control is going to rob your happiness.

Here’s a simple tip to become more productive and feel better: the hardest work you have for the entire day should be done first. No matter how hard it is, it needs to be done first.

As humans, we don’t like to be uncomfortable; we don’t like to do hard things if possible. So, we avoid it, but you can’t avoid doing a task.

A little bit of unbalance is required to achieve great things.

Whenever you’re feeling lazy and don’t want to do the work, start thinking about your future self. How will you feel about not doing it in the future?

Now imagine how your life will look in the future if you do the hard work instead of procrastinating. There is no better way to motivate yourself than to think about your future self. Your future is always created by you in the present. The actions you take will reflect how your future will look.

If you have any task that needs to be done and you have no time to do it, it’s a low-value task,

Many things take a lot of your time that aren’t that important, but you can delegate right now so that you can use the time to do the things you want to do.

Don’t learn anything just for the sake of learning it. Learn things that can improve your life.

The fastest way to read more books is to spend more time on books.

Plan your day. Write everything you want to achieve in a day.

Write your goals on a physical paper.

Follow the 80/20 Rule. 20% of your work will bring you 80% of your results.

Stop Multitasking.

Focus on one task at a time.

Remove all the distractions from your environment.

When tired, take a nap.

Learn to say no.

Delegate all the non-important tasks.

Don’t wait for the perfect time. Do It Now.

Anything that can be done in under 5 minutes should be done now.

Do the task that you hate first.

Set deadlines; the task will never be finished without deadlines.

Stop focusing on things that don’t help you achieve your goals.

Don’t become a perfectionist

Schedule a time when you’re going to check your email.

Avoid all the unnecessary meetings.

Avoid negative people at all costs.

Do what you love.

This is also called the Pareto Principle. This means 20% of your work will bring you 80% of the results.

This was introduced by Cyril Northcote Parkinson. The law means that the work expands to fill the time allotted for completion.

IKIGAI It means to have a purpose in life. The reason you wake up each working excited to do something.

4 Rules of IKIGAI: 1) Do what you love, 2) Do what you're good at, 3) Do what the world needs, 4) Do what you can be paid for.

Kaizen

focusing on small improvements every day

trying to become 1% better every day.

3. Shoshin

approaching things with a beginner's mindset.

4. Hara Hachi Bu This means to stop eating after you're 80% full.

5. Shinrin-yoku Shinin in Japanese means "forest," and yoku means "bath.” It means that one should spend more time with nature.

6. Wabi-sabi This means that instead of perfection, one should find beauty in imperfection.

7. Ganbaru Nothing worth doing takes much time, no matter how hard one tries.