6 working ways to stop being a lazy ass

Pic by Maddest Hatter

Once in a while, it is fine but when it happens repeatedly, we know that we have become a lazy ass. How can you miss your time line 5 times in a row. It's time to work on it.

Some working tips to work on this alter-ego of ours. Lets see them...

Shall we, or shall we look at it later on...does this idea sound good?...yeahhh?...then enter right away, it's time to act.

Make a Promise
This helps in those kinds of jobs from which we won't get any monetary benefits and hence we tend to put off the work.

But doing them would give immense internal peace and not doing it would drag us down further.

SO?....make a promise. See the smile in someone's face and promise them that you would do it for sure and don't stop with it but make them picture how your work would be.

This promise would give you a reason to not procrastinate and start working.

Have a bet
Have a challenge with someone, say that you not doing it in time, you would buy your kid that costly toy you had always said it would be for his next birthday.

You could also come up with something funny, shameful or what ever would urge you to finish anything in time. You could put your imagination to work. Not taking bath for two continuous days. How does it sound? :).

Brag, brag and brag
Don't do this often because this might become a habit. Once in a while, to those who know that you are not a one to blow your own trumpet, brag about your next project.

Tell them that they are to witness picasso at work and set the expectations high.

Atleast, some of your friends would wish to see your greased face at the end but this might be a driving force for you...:) Don't leave any options closed. Here we are trying not to be a couch potato, not to be a lazy goose. Why not try it. Sometimes the shame of losing face really helps.

Fake it and then make it
Using the same concept of saving your face as an urge to start working.

If you like to learn a new skill but have put it off for later which you seem not to have come to till date, then this might prove helpful.

Tell your friends that you had a wonderful experience doing bungy jumping when in high school but the truth being you shiver at the mere thought of standing on a 10 feet ladder.

This sense of having lied to your friends makes you feel bad about it and helps you start working on it.

You could confess later on to your friends, if it hurts you too much but all that is needed is achieved. You worked on the thing you literally mortally feared.

Punish Yourself
Oh woh! Not literally. No nailing your hands, no slapping yourself with whips...

Just simple sort of tortures which you would really avoid if given a choice. Who would like to miss going for dinner with your love on a pleasant friday night. Or, say if you follow some show ardently every week which you would never ever miss.

Then take up an assignment and give it a deadline as friday afternoon or as a few hours before the show begins.

If you miss your deadline, then the party/show is gone. You can't go for dining/you would miss the show.

Doing this always might become strenuous but once in a while doing it with commitment would give a great sense of satisfaction and keeps your spirit high in the dinner ;).

Announce it
Announce to your family that they would be getting a brand new garage this evening and invite your friends over for celebrating it.

Now invitations are sent...and... weekend is fast approaching, now all that you could do is take the broom, wash your garage, paint it and celebrate it. Are you left with any other Plan B. I really doubt it :).

All that it takes to do something is our desire to do it and the desire to see the finished work. Take simple steps to go about your work one at a time and this could really help in finishing them.

Simple thumb rule for putting all these ways to action is bait yourself, appreciate yourself, punish yourself, inspire yourself all while having the things to be done in your mind.

Doing something which I don't like(lack the will to do), if I miss my deadline is something I like to use to avoid putting off my work. Like doing 30 crunches if I miss my deadline or not touching that packet of sweets or icecream till I finish off the post(this post).... :)... Wow...Now come here you silly vanilla icecream...I am going to devour you...:) :) :)...

By the by, did you find something that you use as a way to not goof around, here...What do you use for finishing your work on time. Do you have some other secret potion. Share it with us.