How many of you have experienced being lazy to do the things that you are supposed to do?
I have experienced it many many many times.
There are many reasons and here are the things I can enumerate:
Burnout - I wrote an article how to reduce this
Lost interest or motivation
You found the work meaningless
You are having personal health problems (ie. lack of energy)
Overwhelmed of the number of tasks
One reason that I can think of that applies to me is #5.
Because thereās just too many things to do, that I donāt know what to do anymore.
I want to accomplish a whole lot of stuffs and in the end, I accomplish nothing.
Have you experienced that?
In trying to complete a whole lot of things, the side effect is that, I became lazy.
Too much ācognitive loadā on my brain.
One day, I realised I had to do something about it and started to search āhow to overcome lazinessā or āhow to overcome procrastinationā.
I found the solution, The 2-minute rule!
And it is very simple.
Just list down all the tasks that you need to do on a piece of paper and choose the task that can be completed in less than 2 minutes.
Thatās it!
If thereās no task that can be completed in 2 minutes, choose the task that is the easiest.
If still none, break down the task into smaller things.
Example:
Task: Clean the house.
Note: The house is big, you have the living room, the bed room, the kitchen, the home office, etc
Obviously, cleaning any of these would take you more than 2 minutes.
Let us say, letās choose to clean the āhome officeā (if you have). You have the dusty cabinet, the table, the trash bin, the floor, etc.
Maybe, just clean or arrange your own table. For sure you can quickly just arrange the papers.
Once you start with that, have already started your own momentum.
Try it. Follow the 2-minute rule!
Till next time! š
