Laziness…

“Don’t be lazy.” Easier said than done! I am always fighting myself to do things, just as keeping weeds from the garden. Once I let up, I am down for the count, and like a champion fighter, if the figther wants to keep the championship belt, lift one’s self from the canvas and fight!

One way I keep myself from being lazy, I create a goal/task list. I got this idea from Warren Buffett. List the three most important tasks that I want to finish today. I will write them down in order of importance. I will not move to number two or three, until number one is done. I will not stop trying to complete number one, until number one is done!

I fould that if I do not have a guide in my life (a daily list), I tend to go all over the place. Do a little of this and a little of that and this and that, by the time I go to bed, I DID LITTLE to NOTHING! I also learned to be disciplined in creating a list and not moving to number two until number one is complete. I tend to want to move on to number two, even when number one is not done, especially when I face challenges! But I have disciplined myself not move to number two and continue to work on number one until number one has been completed. Doing this was very difficult in the beginning, but now, not as difficult, as I have become accustomed to doing one thing at a time!

I have thought myself, should I watch TV, I watch TV. Not watch TV, be on the phone, talk to family and friends. A much as I like multitasking, multitasking drains my congnitive energy. So I have started to just do one thing at a time and use the list as my guide.

And on that note, I am moving on to task number two… 🙂