Dude! It’s time to Relax!

3 November, 2007 - Motivation - No Comments

“I don’t have time” is an excuse for being lazy.

Sara from PajamaProfessional says we have more time than oven-ready brownies would have us believe. I tend to agree with her. In fact, I’ll go as far as to say that we have plenty of time each day to do everything we need to. Saying you don’t have time is just an excuse for laziness, or is a result of too much procrastinating earlier in the day.

Don’t take that the wrong way. I’m as guilty as the next person when it comes to using this excuse. Honestly, I would probably say I’m more guilty than most.

It was a product that Sara saw which sparked her post. She saw some oven-ready brownies. No need to mix the ingredients anymore. Just open the box, out of the packet and in to the oven. This sparked an interesting question. What did our parents and grandparents do? Surely they didn’t use the “We don’t have time” excuse. Everything they needed to do each day got done, or so I’m told.

Well, here comes the next excuse. We don’t have time to do everything because our lives are so much more hectic in this century than they were in the last. Frankly, I call bull on that excuse. If our lives are more hectic than they once were, it’s because we make them hectic by rushing everywhere. Watch people as you drive to work or walk through town. They never slow down. Personally, I find nothing better when in town than to stop and sit down. Usually I’ll buy a bottle of water and a sandwich and sit on a bench. It’s almost funny to watch everybody rush around like headless chickens while I sit, very relaxed and very calm.

I find the most common cause of the laziness excuse is due to an hour or two of procrastinating earlier in the day. Personally, I believe the reason so many of us procrastinate is because we go crazy for the first two hours of the day and find ourselves tired and bored before we even hit lunch. We hurl the accelerator pedal through the floor of our car in a bid to get to work on time, despite it not making an ounce of difference whether we arrive a few minutes late or not. We buy our morning coffee while barely stopping and saying thank you. Hell, I’m sure if we had to stop, we would still jog on the spot in a bid to keep moving. We jump in the elevator and push the button five times in the hope the doors will close faster, then we give a big sigh when we stop at every floor. Then we finally reach our cube and work like hell for two hours, not because we want to, but because we feel compelled to do so. Then, 11am comes around and you suddenly find yourself deflated.

Am I describing you? If so, I ask you this. Why not just relax? Smile. Say thank you. Walk with a spring in your step. Take great pleasure in being the only calm person in your entire office block, and best of all, feel very fresh come 11am and work a relaxed, full day getting everything done you need to get done. You’ll feel all the better for it. The day you finally laugh inside at the pace-walking-champion-wannabes in town is the day you finally mastered the art of managing your time through relaxation.

Not having enough time in the day is an excuse. An excuse for laziness. An excuse for being intent on moving everywhere fast. An excuse for not managing time well. It’s an excuse, but something that can be long forgotten with a little relaxation.

Do you find yourself rushing everywhere, or do you take time to move slow and notice the people and things around you?

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Posted on 3 November, 2007 by Jamie Harrop
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