Retargeting the laziness can be a holy grail,
especially for productivity geeks.

Even retargeting the state of being lazy to
retarget laziness can be beneficial, I think.

We should sell this idea

Is it surprise for anyone? Don’t think so. Is it hard to cope with? Definitely. Why so? It IS pretty natural. Like any sportsman experiences weakness in muscles after hard training due to the accumulation of lactic acid, so any person expresses lazy behavior as a weakness of mind. So let’s name the main distortion for an intellectual activity – the stress it is. Thats our major enemy. People not just used to be stressed, we fear its inevitability while still trying to manage with it as hard stubborn and as signing a contract with a devil. That fight exhaust us, especially due to the fact that very few men and women know how to do that right and even less of them are capable of exploiting that knowledge.

Yet, hell, what we gonna do?! Should we read all the books on “how to beat the stress”? Or should we all turn to Buddhism or try having all our work done while in a dolphin pose? I’d say we can reconcile ourselves with the fact that laziness is just a state of mind, not a way of life, but truly BENEFICIAL ACTIVITY that can be RETARGETED.

Sounds a bit awkward as it’s been stated, but lots of us indeed exploit that method widely! I know it’s pretty naive to mention the famous scientist and engineers whose genius inventions and theories were the outcome of their laziness to use complex and complicated principles that were imposed by early assumptions and achievements, but hey, genes are just genes, aren’t they. I can imagine that by simply using a wrist trainer while watching a TV show or wash a couple of dishes at commercials one can manage some boring routine such as housekeeping and physical exercises! Just a rough and rather stupid example but it’s not so hard to extrapolate that idea, isn’t it? To archive more one should work more, thats no doubt about that, thus building serious projects needs so much more things to do and so much time not being lazy, right? Wrong! My point is, if you spent some of your precious time while brushing teeth (switching TV channels, walking you dog, etc.) on planning, estimating, thinking over your project, so not only you’ll get a brief overview of things to be done, but you’ll be able to sort those things in a way that offers you to “lazy-work” on them, meaning to do part of your project that suits your current lazy mood. Would you prefer to lay back on your favourite sofa and lazy-work on your next milestone ideas, or do you feel like having a cup of coffee in a small restaurant over to the park so that you can lazy-work on reports or browse your mail?

In any case positive thinking do can save th? day. So… YOU are the master of your world, so LAZY if that’s what you want and need! But do it BENEFICIALLY.