Working Towards Our Purpose

Welcome Back to episode 74 of Working towards our

purpose. In today's episode we are going to talk about

laziness and why you're not lazy.

But before we get into that, we're going to do our normal, check in and

take a moment to see how we're feeling and

yeah, just check in with ourselves. So let's take a moment now.

Yeah, I don't know about you, I'm feeling a little

rushed I guess because of the holidays and

trying to get everything done and end of the year type thing,

but trying to stay focused on my tasks and getting everything

done. Um, but yeah, feeling a little I guess

stressed out because of that. Um, but

that's okay cause we're here. Um, and in today

I kind of have a shorter episode for you. I think it's going to be

ending up and not like a normal

five step type thing, but more just sort of a simple thought.

Um, and I want to talk about laziness because I feel like

it came up some point this week and I

just wanted to talk about like what is

laziness? And I guess to kind of start off with a story of

when I was working my first corporate job.

I remember my boss at the time

sort of came over to like our little cubicle area and there was

probably, I think there was like three of us or four of us there

and he kind of like rolled his chair in and I don't remember exactly what

he said, but he was basically saying like I was lazy

or I was insinuating that I was lazy. And I remember getting like

really bothered and upset by that. Not only because

he was saying in front of all my co workers, but the fact that I

thought it was like completely not true. And

I remember saying like,

like, I'm not lazy and I don't like that word and I don't want to

be called that and stuff like that. And I remember his

face just being like, okay, whatever, it's just a word, who

cares? But I took it as like a sort of a personal attack

I guess. And yeah, and that just made me realize that

like, I guess I didn't want to be called lazy or didn't want to be

perceived as lazy. And

yeah, it's interesting how like my perspective of like growing up thinking like I

was a hard worker and stuff and then him seeing me

as, I mean he must have thought that I was lazy for some reason

he brought it up, but sort of that like disconnect of

like how I felt and how he felt. And

I think that now looking

back that you can be

like, I don't think anybody is really lazy. I think laziness is a,

is a word used to describe like not being

interested in something or not caring about something. And I think at that time

there was probably something I was supposed to be working on that like I just

didn't really care about. So I don't think laziness is like an

inherent trait. It's more so just a

non interest in what you're doing. And you don't care about what you do,

you're not passionate about what you do. And so I think laziness can be

like mis. Mistaken as a

personal trait. And I just want to talk about that a little bit because,

you know, when you find something that you care about, I don't think you're ever

really lazy about it. Like if you're really into

a sport or like reading or something, like you're not going to

be lazy about that. Like, you wouldn't, you wouldn't think of yourself as lazy

towards that. But if it comes to like a job that you

don't really care about, then it's much easier to be lazy because

you don't want to be doing it. So I

think that this idea of

laziness can sometimes be harmful because

I've not myself personally, but I've definitely

had conversations with people who believe themselves as lazy

and almost kind of take it as like a prideful thing, like, oh,

I'm too lazy to do that. And you know, obviously we

could feel free to feel however we want about ourselves, but I think that

it could be a negative thing. And like, if you've been told, you know,

throughout school and stuff that you're lazy and now you create this

image of yourself as lazy, then

it could be detrimental to you, you know, growing up when

there is maybe something that you want to

do, but you just believe that you're inherently lazy so you

can't do it. So yeah, I just think that it's kind

of a

negative, damaging mindset to have

and it's not a personal trait because I think

you can use the example of reading as

proving why to me, why you can't be lazy.

I hated reading in school and it was because I

was forced to read things that I didn't want to read. And I didn't know

that there was things out there that I would enjoy reading.

So I thought of myself as somebody who like doesn't read or can't read

and will never like, enjoy that. But then I found books that

I did enjoy and I learned from and I liked and

now I consider myself a reader. So it's kind of in the same way I

think of laziness. It's not an inherent trait.

Like just because you don't read doesn't mean it's because

you can't. It's because you haven't found something that you liked. And I think

that like being lazy doesn't mean that you're

a lazy person. It just means you haven't found the thing that you've liked.

So, and the thing that you've liked to work towards. And I think that can

be frustrating too. Like when, when maybe you're doing a job and somebody

calls you lazy and I, I, I find

myself like being frustrated and it's like I'm not, I'm not lazy. I don't

want to not work. I just don't want to do this thing because I doesn't

align with my values. It doesn't make sense to me. At the end of the

day, you know, maybe it seems like a

pointless task altogether. Um,

so, so yeah, I think that being

said, like it maybe if you do feel like you're lazy, I think it's just

a re shifting of like thinking about like what it is

that you do care about and, and trying to see yourself as not lazy.

So, so yeah, I just been thinking about that recently and,

and yeah, thinking about like, like jobs and stuff like that. And

yeah, it's, it's not that there is a

laziness but it's just trying to find something that you care

about. So I don't know, hopefully, hopefully that helps somebody

out there and maybe makes you think differently about

laziness. That it's not an inherent trait about you as a person.

It's just a matter of finding

alignment in the things that you care about. And yeah,

so shorter episode today. Kind of just wanted to get that thought out there and

yeah, I think that's all I got for you today.

I think it's just one last time. I think it's important

that people don't believe themselves as

lazy. So just wanted to say that and

hope you had a good holiday and I will see you on another episode

real soon. Take care.