You can afford to be lazy!
Do you listen to the voice in your head that’s hard on you?
We all have that voice. The good thing about it is that it helps us accomplish things, it makes us move, it makes us get off our lazy asses and do something to change our lives.
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My friends used to tell me that I only move when my pants are on fire, but once I move, I move mountains. Like when I was in college, I would not study until the umpteenth hour, and then finish revising numerous chapter in a couple of hours alone.
Some of us have this potency. Let’s just say this capacity makes us be aware that we can move things last minute, that we can afford to be lazy.
What an entitlement! And so, we do! We get lazy and push things till the last minute.
But what happens when we never make a move? Not at all? When there’s neither a deadline from the outside world and nor an urgency from your core?
This is why hobbies die a slow death. No one puts a gun on our head to do it. We keep postponing it to tomorrow.
For some people, this also happens in other areas of life like healing or dating, or a passion project.
The thing is that even if we keep postponing that very thing, the inner voice still remains, that keeps criticizing us for not making a move.
This makes our internal environment toxic.
Criticizing ourselves for not taking action and yet not taking action anyway? Sounds like a road to hell to me!
Most of the amazing things have happened in my life with a simple choice. It often has started with the sentence - this can’t be my life, this is not how the story of my life will go, and I would make a different choice.
Sometimes, that choice is simple - like wearing a dress and going out and working from a cafe or reading a book under a tree or watching a movie by yourself.
Sometimes, that choice is a bit difficult - like deciding to give a man a chance and going on a date with him despite your fear of commitment.
Sometimes, that choice is much more difficult - like launching a new product or service and announcing it on social media without worrying who thinks what of it.
Whatever the choice you are struggling with - I want you to pause for a bit and ask yourself -
What have I been postponing for months now but is still something on my mind?
Is this something I can work on today?
Can I take one single step towards it?
Can I spend at least five minutes planning the next course of action?
What does come to your mind when you read these questions? The book you thought of writing? The website you thought of starting? The business you wanted to create? The healing work you thought of enquiring for? The first session of mindset coaching you wanted to book?
Start small. Take at least one single step towards it. Don’t let your inner criticizing voice bully you to further procrastination. Don’t let your avoidance overpower you.
Look at yourself in the mirror. Face yourself.
Make the difficult choice today, even if it is for a little while.
With love,
Sanhita Baruah
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