So You Still Do That?

De: Dode Sescri

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

One thing I have always thought about is whether lazy people can really be motivated well enough to achieve great things in life, if someone is reading inspirational quotes and listening to motivational speakers but not actually putting any effort into improving his or her own life, can anything really change in their lives?

Every day we are lectured by these ''Be The Best You Can Be in life,'' coaches without telling us exactly what we need to do to get where we wannabe. These life coaches have made careers out of other people's misery. There was once a guy in my neighborhood who created a seminar to coach people on how to improve their lives and achieve their maximum potential in business, he was teaching people literarily on how to become millionaires in a short period, he was charging only a dollar as an entry fee into his lecture halls. Over the years millions of people have attended his lectures, now he is a millionaire. What an incredible genius of a guy he was? Most of the people he coached did not become millionaires themselves however. If you asked him why many of his students did not achieve what they were promised, he blames them saying they never applied what he taught them in his classes.

If you have a lazy co-worker who expects you to do most of the work while he spends his afternoon taking a nap, then you better tell him to his face that, ''you are lazy,'' pull up your socks and get back to work,'' that stern warning however harsh it may sound to him could be the only thing to help him stop his bad habit of procrastination. It is better than giving him a motivational book to read, in fact, he may be too lazy to read it in the first place.

Once someone gets started with their plans or duties, they often move on smoothly at first, a time often comes midway when they begin to see the full scale of the responsibility that lays ahead of them, and feel the full weight of their duties upon their shoulders, they then begin to think otherwise, they slow down and start contemplating over the enormity of the tasks not yet accomplished, they start to question whether continuing with their present journey is a really good idea, should they proceed or simply quit and move onto something else? This however doesn’t have to be the case, it's high time we toss aside the old ways of doing things and turn a new leaf. Its time to exude out more passion and effort to drive our project to completion. A lot of people always start their work enthusiastically but never reach the end of the finishing line, because somewhere along the way they got exhausted, demoralized, or simply bored. They switch on to other things while their current projects are still incomplete. They jump from one half-done project to another just like a monkey jumping from one tree branch to another, and when things don’t go their way, they begin to whine claiming they weren't successful because luck wasn’t on their side.