Try listening music or a podcast, or put on your fitness tracker to see how many calories you burn or steps you get while performing these tasks. Getting a job done is a reward in itself, but some people are driven by external rewards. Celebrate the end of a big project with a night out or invite friends over for drink after a day of cleaning. High-protein foods do this, such as:. Nutrition and productivity are linked. These include:. Along with numerous other benefits , exercise is a surefire way to get rid of laziness.
Just a few minutes of exercise can increase energy levels, improve mood, and reduce anxiety, stress , and depression — all of which can make you feel drained and unmotivated.
Try a short walk or bike ride to combat that lazy feeling. There are many things you can do to sleep better at night — from avoiding screen time just before bed to limiting nap time during the day. Aim to get the recommended seven to nine hours of sleep each night to feel refreshed and ready to tackle the day ahead.
Stress can drain you so you feel too mentally and physically exhausted to do anything. Finding strategies for coping with stress can help improve your mood and give you back the energy and drive to get things done.
Time with loved ones, cuddling a pet, and soaking in the tub are just a few ideas. The benefits of drinking water are endless and many can help fight laziness.
Staying hydrated can boost energy levels and brain function. It also helps maximize physical performance. Increased energy levels thanks to improved circulation and oxygen are just a couple of the benefits of quitting smoking.
Quitting can also boost your immune system, improve your sex life, and lower your risk of several serious conditions. How can you see that your fear is irrational? If you're hurting, maybe the only answer is time. Grief, sadness, all those negative emotions won't go away at will. Our wounds need time to heal. Putting less pressure on yourself to stop hurting may be the catalyst for change you seek.
If you're uninspired, what can you change about your routine? Can you put yourself in a different environment or is a mental demon you have to conquer? How can you vamp up everyday life? Think in terms of your senses. Music, food, sights, sounds, etc.
Get organized. Having clutter around us -- even when it's just visual -- can be a huge downer to our motivational skills.
Whatever it is that could do for some organization, organize it. Whether it's your desk, your car, your whole house, or your routine, clean 'er up. There's a lot that's going on in our subconscious that we don't account for. Whether it's an unpleasant color palette or an inadequate amount of light or a lack of balance in some way, shape, or form, somewhere we know about it. Get rid of that tiny-but-powerful deterrent by getting organized.
Monitor that self-talk. Sometimes behaviors cause thoughts and sometimes thoughts cause behavior. Cover your bases and get rid of the negative inner dialogue. Thinking, "God, I'm so lazy. Worthless," isn't going to get you anywhere. So stop it. Only you have control of that ticker tape going on behind your eyes.
Every time you find yourself not performing up to par, twist it around to the positive. Now that it's afternoon, I'm buckling down! Practice mindfulness. So many of us don't take time to stop and smell the roses. We scarf down a great meal just to get to dessert, just to get to the wine, just to get to bed with an overly full stomach. We're always thinking about the next great thing instead of living in this wonderful moment that is right now.
When we start living in the moment, we want to take advantage of it. Next time you find yourself thinking about the past or the future, draw yourself back into the present.
Whether it's the scene around you, the food on your fork, or the music in your ears, let it show you how cool it is to be walking Earth and living. Sometimes stopping and slowing down can give us the energy to take advantage of what we have at our disposal.
Think of the benefits. Alright, so we got you focused on the present. Now let's focus on a better present. What would happen if you took advantage of right now? What would happen if instead of wasting away the morning in bed you got up and did yoga, finished your work, or cooked a great breakfast? What would happen if you did that practically every day for the next six months? It'd be wonderful, that's what.
Let these positive ideas take over your train of thought. And be sure to realize that once you get going and develop the habit, everything will come that much easier. Part 2. Jump out of bed. Research tells us that hitting the snooze button is bad for us.
We're actually more tired throughout the day. Instead, jump out of bed and start a consistent morning routine. Your mind will follow the cues your body is giving it.
If you jump out of bed, you must be ready and raring to go. Try placing your alarm clock on the other side of the room so that you have to physically get out of bed to turn it off.
This makes pressing the snooze button or falling back asleep much more difficult. Literally jump if you can master it. Get your blood circulating. It may be the last thing you want to do, but if you can make yourself, you'll be all that more alive after. Set some achievable goals. By setting yourself some worthy yet attainable goals, you have something to look forward to. Pick goals which really inspire you and that make the most of your talents and skills.
Make a to-do list, both of large and small things, and prioritize each one in terms of time needed and importance to you personally. It may prove useful to keep a personal journal for each day of your target activities, with a record of what exactly may have helped or hindered you with regard to reaching your target as part of your practical logistics for self-development.
Consider creating a vision board to post all your goals and dreams on. Be creative and use pictures, magazine articles, etc. Such a board can be used to fully map out your dreams. Each day upon waking, look at your vision board and focus on where you want to be.
This will provide an inspired start to your day, and push you to your dreams. Not everyone finds the vision board approach inspiring but there are other ways, such as mind maps, journals, creating a vision statement and telling others about it, making public pledges online to do something, etc. Make a checklist of the desires, goals and motivations you want to move towards. As you power through them, check!
Keeping the goals forefront in your mind requires actually focusing on them and a list can keep you energized through its ease of checking. Place copies of your goal sheet or routine everywhere: one on the fridge, on your night stand, by your computer, on your bathroom mirror, even on the bedroom door. Just place them where you look or go to often. Once those checks start accumulating, you won't want to stop. You'll literally see what you've been working towards and what you're capable of and that momentum will feel so good you'll have to keep going.
You'd be disappointed and feel worse if you didn't. Make daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly plans so you have smaller, more achievable goals. Regularly revisit the importance and value of the problem or goal. Once you've settled on a goal or faced the problem in need of tackling, it doesn't miraculously direct you without effort on your behalf. Part of the success behind having a goal or finding a solution depends on reminding yourself of why it matters.
If you lose sight of the goal or solution, it's easy to become embedded in distractions and dead-ends that make it seem too hard to continue, allowing laziness to set in. Regular reassessments of both the importance and value of the problem or goal will help to keep you focused and refreshed.
Some things to ask yourself include: Is this something that I can actually afford to ignore or allow to go on unsolved for more time? Is this something that could be improved by having somebody else help me or share insights with me about? Am I using the right approach to solving this issue or pursuing this goal? Sometimes it's time to follow a new approach than to keep pursuing the same old path.
Am I being perfectionist in my expectations? Perfectionism can lead to procrastination, which can soon lead to nothing getting done because nothing is ever going to be good enough.
The end result? Laziness sets in because it's "all too hard". Avoid falling into this vicious spiral by always doing your best, rather than focusing on aiming for nothing-but-perfection.
Tell yourself you can do something. Action changes everything. One moment you're passive and frozen; the next you're digging in and changing things simply because you moved, decided something or got out there. You are not defined by what went on before —— you are always in a position to reinvent yourself and make change happen.
You just gotta think it and believe it. If you do feel stuck, try jumping up, doing the task, and telling yourself "Despite that old habit of freezing up, I am up right now and I am productive! And definitely no "if only" statements —— those are for people who truly don't want to be fulfilled in life.
Use our award-winning symptom checker to find out — it's free! All of Healthily's articles undergo medical safety checks to verify that the information is medically safe. View more details in our safety page , or read our editorial policy. Is laziness a personality trait or a set of behaviours and habits that you pick up throughout life? Laziness means different things to different people, so the first step in figuring out why you feel so lazy is identifying what laziness means to you. For some it's a lack of interest in things, while for others it's tiredness, feeling low or a sense of being disconnected.
If yes, and you have other symptoms, your laziness may be due to a medical condition. However, if lazy habits and behaviours have been a part of your life for many years, they may be caused by lifestyle factors or general behavioural tendencies. For guidance on making positive life changes, read how to set a health goal and achieve it.
If you frequently experience low mood, tiredness or feel a lack of motivation, this may be caused by a mental health condition such as:. Could your lifestyle be making you lazy?
For example, a poor diet, too much alcohol and lack of good quality sleep can all leave you feeling tired and unmotivated. Make small changes to your lifestyle to try and improve how you feel. So start your day with that. But make it easy on yourself by breaking down that task into smaller steps and then focus on just the first one.
By doing so you set a good tone for your day. Then, after some time, you may want to work for 40 minutes before you take a 10 minute break. But go easy on yourself at first.
And if you have trouble with sticking to your time-limits then use an app on your phone or a simple egg-timer from your kitchen. Just sitting down at for example your computer and trying to do fully focused work for 5 or 20 minutes may not result in any work of importance getting done. So I put my phone in silent mode and I put it at the other end of our home when I work.
Two sets of questions that I have sat down and asked myself with closed eyes and that have refueled my motivation many times are:. And it may be uncomfortable but try to see the negative consequences as vividly as you can in your mind to kickstart your motivation to get going for that positive change.
When that's the case then start uncluttering both your work hours and your private time. Two questions that have helped me to do that and to find what is most important are:. Use these to get out of an old rut, to question your normal day a bit and to find your top priorities. Then see what you can eliminate, minimize or perhaps delegate of the things that are not contained in your answers.
The fear of failure can hold you back in a state of doing easier things and in what you may see as being lazy. But everyone that go for what they truly want and outside of their comfort zone stumbles and fails from time to time. See a setback as a learning experience and as a way to be more constructive and kinder to yourself.
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