Abolishing Laziness

[Omega]

Here are the top five ways I've found to abolishing laziness.

1) Take a shower first thing in the morning. By taking a shower, you wake yourself up and realize that the day has started. It's not a time to fool around and laze around the house.

2) Put on clothes! Alot of us walk around the house in boxers or what not, and watch a little tv before whatever. Since it's the summer now, by putting on clothes, this forces your brain to believe your about to do something, and that you cannot laze around.

3) Apply everything as if you were about to step out the door to the mall. This does the exact same thing as #2, except takes it a step further.

4) Do not procrastinate. If you have something to do, make sure you do a little of it everytime you think about it. This way, you won't leave it to the last minute.

5) Lastly, make sure you feel good about yourself. Do whatever you must to get that extra edge. Whether its washing your face in the morning and putting on cologne, or doing a couple sprints around your block. If you don't have your uniqueness in the palm of your hand, you will feel aweful.

Good luck

 

[DJBen]

All very true, very good points.

My standard wake-up call, no matter what the occasion:

-Make bed
-Shower
-Dress
-Gel hair, anti-perspirant, shoes
-Breakfast
-Most boring chore you have planned for the day

For some reason, I find the gelling of the hair, putting on smellys and, probably the most important for me, putting on shoes, the most awakening. For some reason when I put on my shoes, I actually *want* to be outside, like some sort of urge. Try it

 

[comic_relief]

if you are lucky enough and have a creek next to you that is clean. Jump in that in the morning and you will notice a difference that is noticably different even a pool would work. Try it if you can. Puts a change on you right away.

 

[Omega]

Originally posted by gOLDENBoy83
Before going to bed, I make a list of things I want to / have to do the next day and when I wake up, I read this list to see what's awaiting me.

Firstly, it gets your thoughts "out of your head onto the paper" which helps you to fall asleep.
Secondly, I have more drive if I have a clear picture of what I will do during the day.

You might even consider to have this list on your PDA / cellular to have it with you all the time.

Defently a good tip. I did that last night and today, it's worked a ton.

 

[Omega]

Originally posted by gOLDENBoy83
You might like this one as well:
Limit your sleep to 7 hours per day. I know, almost everybody likes to sleep 9 hours and you probably excuse this with "the importance of sleep for your health" or "I need to have as much sleep as possible to be efficient."

However, some independent (Japanese, British and American) studies have shown that for both health and life expectancy 7 hours a day are the way to go.
Sleeping more is not only increasing your chances of ill health but only lowering your life expectancy.

source: University of California in San Diego amongst others

I've actually tried this but it doesn't work for me. Partially cause I'm still growing but, I'm just so use to getting that ammount that my body now needs it.

 

[aolsuxs]

Excellent advice, we all have so much potential in our lives and sometimes taking the first step is the hardest.

I've been screwed over quite a few times by simply being too lazy. Awesome tips.

Regarding the sleep, supposedly everyone sleep cycle is roughly 90 mintutes, thus if you sleep in an hour and half increments (3 hours, 6 hours, 7 and a half) etc you don't wake up in the middle of a cycle and you feel more refreshed. Again I just read this on some random site but it seems to work for me.

I agree that oversleeping can be just as bad as undersleeping.

 

[Lifeforce]

This is a great post for everyone who do not understand that. Laziness is the worst enemy of any DJ, it shows that the person has no real goal in their life.

Want to add a couple of things:

6. Discard any electronic stuff that take up your time in a nonproductive way. Throw out your TV, destroy your playstation, sell your radio and give away your computer. You don't need those!

7. Get into the habbit of movement. If you constantly do stuff all the time and fill up your free time then it will actually feel wrong and hurt if you sit around doing nothing.

8. Do some morning gymnastics, SERIOUSLY! try it. Do it for a couple of minutes and you will feel awake and ready for movement.

 

[Capt.Jack Sparrow]

Heres what I do to abolish my lazyness.

When I wake up in the morning I:

I get up, strech my legs, arm,s and back. Than I put both of my arms out at full length. From here you take a deep breath and than slowly bring your arms up and reach up for the ceiling as far as your arms can go. Than exhale.

Than I jump into the shower and take no longer than 10 minutes or else I'll get lazy again. After that I spike my hair and than go eat some breakfast and than I'm off to school. Strech a lot so you can be less lazy. I find it really helpful when I do that strech what I was talking about earlier.

It could also help if you:

- Watched a less more t.v.
- Played a less more video games
- Go out and take a nice walk around. It's entertaining and you can find out stuff (like see a new hot girl you've never seen before in your neighborhood, thus go and apply your dj skills)
- Do some extra chores
- Help out others when they need it.
- Going to sleep earlier like at 8:00 - 9:00 so you can wake up earlier and get a head start on things, it also helps you feel more active
- Next time you gotta go somewhere, take a longer way. It also helps you get familar with new areas and faces.

Hope this helps.

 

[comic_relief]

I did a little experiment a couple days ago. This is how I did it. I did no exercise, minimal movements, played maximum amount of video games, watched so much tv, and other lazy stuff. The guilt inside me ate me up to the point where after three hours (or however much time you need) I wanted to go outside and do work like crazy. It worked for me.
Abolished my laziness for about two weeks, now I want to work and do exercising type things.

 

[TheNonPedant]

I drink as many cold cups of water I can as soon as I wake up.

 

[DJ_Dork]

also, masturbate 5 times per day.

 

[Imbrondir]

Originally posted by gOLDENBoy83
You might like this one as well:
Limit your sleep to 7 hours per day. I know, almost everybody likes to sleep 9 hours and you probably excuse this with "the importance of sleep for your health" or "I need to have as much sleep as possible to be efficient."

However, some independent (Japanese, British and American) studies have shown that for both health and life expectancy 7 hours a day are the way to go.
Sleeping more is not only increasing your chances of ill health but only lowering your life expectancy.

source: University of California in San Diego amongst others

For anybody doing an activity, especially like heavy lifting, sleeping a lot is crucial for recovery. You couch sitters or joggers can probobly get away with away with 7 hours as the study suggests. Sleeping routine'ish (always go to bed at x, get up at y), can help. Allso getting to bed eary is supposed to help. Haven't seen a study on this, but it feels to me that an hour of sleep before midnight is worth more than after....

 

[aolsuxs]

Originally posted by Imbrondir
For anybody doing an activity, especially like heavy lifting, sleeping a lot is crucial for recovery. You couch sitters or joggers can probobly get away with away with 7 hours as the study suggests. Sleeping routine'ish (always go to bed at x, get up at y), can help. Allso getting to bed eary is supposed to help. Haven't seen a study on this, but it feels to me that an hour of sleep before midnight is worth more than after....

I disagree as I said, I often get 7 hours or less and I've done fine and I am far from a couch sitter and jogger. You have no proof to make these claims, but neither do I. The way I look at it is, most of it is mental, just like almost everything else in life. I doubt you, or many people wake up and think "Wow I have so much energy I can't wait for the day to begin," instead most of us think, "Sh!!!!T, I would kill for one more hour of sleep, well at least the weekend is here anyway" Again I have no formal studies or anything but it is just a way of tricking your mind.


For example, telemarketers are trained to speak with a huge smile on their face, why? Obviously so they sound friendlier and our it works since out mind associates smiling with happiness and friendliness.

Granted everyone has there own requirement on how much sleep they really need, but I feel most of us can push this limit. Going through the day repeating, "Oooh I am soo tired" in our minds won't help but try changing that though process around.

Hell maybe, it's just me, but I firmly believe its all about "Mind over matter"

 

[Omega]

Originally posted by aolsuxs


For example, telemarketers are trained to speak with a huge smile on their face, why? Obviously so they sound friendlier and our it works since out mind associates smiling with happiness and friendliness.

Really?!

I'll have to try that