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<p>Laziness is tough to beat. Because living life is exhausting, and the pull to eat chips on the couch all day while watching reality TV all day can feel overwhelmingly powerful. Do couches have built-in magnets?! Formerly lazy people on Reddit are <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cmoxrl/exlazy_people_of_reddit_how_did_you_overcome_your/" target="_blank">sharing how they were able to overcome their laziness</a>, and it may just inspire you to turn off your TV and put on some pants. Maybe even apply to a job or call a friend to go for a walk. And if not, that&#39;s ok too. Beating laziness (which in many cases is actually undiagnosed depression or other mental health issues) takes time, and sometimes requires treatment and medication. But remember, just because you&#39;re lazy today, doesn&#39;t mean you have to be lazy forever.</p><p>Take it from these ex-lazy people:</p><h2>1.) Routine.</h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><p>From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/YoUrK11iNMeSMa11s/">YoUrK11iNMeSMa11s</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Routine. I&rsquo;m a creature of habit. I had to force myself into the discomfort over and over again. Eventually this becomes the new normal. It&rsquo;s all habits, you have to force new ones.</p> </blockquote><h2>2.) Exercise in small doses.</h2><p> </p><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/jalude/" style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">jalude</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>To add to this, getting to the gym and doing very little the first couple weeks is a pretty good strategy to build the habit to get there. I went there three times a week and just went for a quick swim or sat in the sauna. Adding a small amount of exercise each time. Eventually at some point, something clicked, and now I feel guilty/angry at myself if I don&#39;t exercise on my scheduled days because it breaks my routine.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3.) Identifying and treating depression.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ColCrabs/">ColCrabs</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>A few comments call it what it is and the others almost all seem to fall squarely into the realm of depression.</p> <p>The frustrating thing about this two of &lsquo;laziness&rsquo; or being unmotivated is that it&rsquo;s either ignored because you&rsquo;re lazy or it&rsquo;s given that heavy diagnosis of depression. Not all forms of depression result in you being sad, suicidal, or miserable all the time.</p> <p>For years now I&rsquo;ve been unmotivated and what I thought was lazy. I&rsquo;d wait till the last minute to do homework, I&rsquo;d watch YouTube or tv for hours on end, not do much with my day and I slowly stopped doing the things I enjoyed, like video games or working out.</p> <p>Then I ended up napping, a lot. Like physically couldn&rsquo;t stay awake no matter how hard I tried. I went to the doctor and they said the basic nonsense about diet and exercise so I figured that I&rsquo;d prove to them that wasn&rsquo;t the case. So I started eating better and exercising with no change. Saw a different doctor and she immediately diagnosed it as depression.</p> <p>I really didn&rsquo;t believe her since I&rsquo;m not sad, suicidal, or want to hurt other people. She gave me a referral to a therapist and left it up to me to decide when to go. Well I fucking procrastinated as usual and it took me months to go.</p> <p>When I arrived I immediately told the therapist I think it&rsquo;s all bullshit and I&rsquo;m not depressed. That&rsquo;s when she started explaining the different forms for depression, anxiety, and stress. It really bugs me that all forms of depression are grouped under the single name as it prevents a lot of people from getting the really simple and basic help they need to get back on track with things.</p> <p>Anyway, she explained that this form of depression is caused by internalizing pressure and stress which in turn exhausts you both mentally and physically. Mismanaging your time and procrastination slowly builds up a subconscious pressure that will drag you down but it will also make you accustomed to the immediate reward of not doing something. A few examples:</p> <p>Not washing the dishes or doing the laundry causes you to think about it each time you see it or need a dish or piece of clothing. As it piles up it also piles onto your sub-conscience but instead of doing it you can immediately get satisfaction by grabbing a new plate or a partly dirty shirt. It&rsquo;ll keep weighing on you though, throughout the day that pile will sneak into your mind for a few seconds and bring you down a little more.</p> <p>The same goes for sleeping. The more you hit snooze, or over sleep, or take naps when you&rsquo;re tired the more your body will become accustomed to the immediate reward of going back to sleep rather than the delayed reward of staying up and doing something productive.</p> <p>Anyway, I ended up going to a therapist for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy which turned into basically just a lesson on time-management and balancing work/routine/hobbies. I&rsquo;d recommend anyone who feels lazy to check it out. Things like SMART goals, the vicious/virtuous cycle, and the three legged stool are all great tools to overcome this type of laziness and depression.</p> <p>Edit:</p> <p>This <a href="https://www.talkplus.org.uk/downloads_folder/Behavioural_Activation.pdf?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=ios_app" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">workbook</a> is what my therapist used and it&rsquo;s incredibly helpful on its own.</p> <p>The most important thing to remember is to not jump straight into things and expect to be better in a day. I&rsquo;ve been working at it for about a year now and some days and weeks I fall back into old routines. Overall though I went from sleeping until noon and going to sleep at crazy hours and getting 10-12 hours of sleep, eating like shit, napping, and barely getting things done to waking up at 6am going to sleep at 11pm, going to the gym every day, never napping and getting tons of work done.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4.) A full-time job.</h2><p>From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Tyler_Oxide/">Tyler_Oxide</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Whenever I&#39;ve got a full time job, it switches my life around - I want to go to the gym, see friends, cook, etc. When I&#39;m part-time/studying/not working, I go back into mega lazy mode.</p> </blockquote><h2>5.) The 5-minute rule.</h2><p> </p><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/clownlovingbaboo/">clownlovingbaboo</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Two things: Finding something I love doing for work and the five minute rule. Basically if it will take you less than 5 minutes - you do it. this then applies to everything with motivation. You get to a point where rather than having to motivate yourself to do things you train yourself to respond to the thought. Rather than &quot;I should go to the gym&quot; being followed by trying to find the energy and being passive, you get into the habit of when you have that thought you change clothes, gather your stuff and leave the house immediately. It doesn&#39;t always help but I achieve a lot more than I used to. I think the key to making it work is getting enough sleep.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6.) Self-care.</h2><p> </p><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/clownlovingbaboo/">clownlovingbaboo</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Two things: Finding something I love doing for work and the five minute rule. Basically if it will take you less than 5 minutes - you do it. this then applies to everything with motivation. You get to a point where rather than having to motivate yourself to do things you train yourself to respond to the thought. Rather than &quot;I should go to the gym&quot; being followed by trying to find the energy and being passive, you get into the habit of when you have that thought you change clothes, gather your stuff and leave the house immediately. It doesn&#39;t always help but I achieve a lot more than I used to. I think the key to making it work is getting enough sleep.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>7.) Treat your mental health.</h2><p> </p><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/wibbles94/" style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">wibbles94</a><span style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">:</span></p><blockquote> <p>I took Lexapro when I was depressed and it significantly helped. It didn&rsquo;t necessarily make me happy but it was a tool to help propel me into a healthy lifestyle.</p> <p>I was unable to think any negative thoughts on it, my sleep was MUCH more regulated, and I woke up refreshed and ready to start my day. I got into a daily routine of waking up early, working out, taking walks, eating healthy and eventually got off of it the lexapro as my body/serotonin responded better to my lifestyle. I was on it for about 2 months.</p> </blockquote><h2>8.) Put off your laziness until tomorrow.</h2><p> </p><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/pukegreenwithenvy/">pukegreenwithenvy</a></p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>By procrastinating being lazy.</p> </blockquote><p>Genius!</p><p>9.) Job that doesn&#39;t let you be lazy.</p><p> </p><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/idoidoidoew/" style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">idoidoidoew</a><span style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">:</span></p><blockquote> <p>Got a job that forced me to be &ldquo;on&rdquo; basically 100% of the time. The more others depend on me, the less lazy I tend to be.</p> </blockquote><h2>10.) If needed, medicate.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/de_meid/">de_meid</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Meds! Turned out the laziness was my ADD preventing me from focusing on tasks long enough to finish them.</p> </blockquote><h2>11.) Schedule everything.</h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><p>From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/hamaTamago/" style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">hamaTamago</a><span style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">:</span></p><blockquote> <p>I started a couple of fixed daily/weekly schedules, like what time to workout. I chose something that I enjoy doing and tie a fixed schedule to it, then expanded by scheduling more useful things like a sleeping schedule and eating schedule. I slip up occasionally, but those things that I like stay constant, and it helps.</p> </blockquote><h2>12.) Baby steps, literally.</h2><p>From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/qdobe/">qdobe</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Not to dimish what other people are saying, but sometimes the &quot;Just do it&quot; advice doesn&#39;t quite touch home for a lot of people, like me, who dosen&#39;t necessarily feel lazy but just tired all the time, which can be construed as laziness.</p> <p>But do you ever notice when you&#39;re feeling tired or &quot;lazy&quot; it&#39;s usually when your sitting? Maybe watching TV, sitting on the computer, in a comfortable position?</p> <p>Sometimes being productive takes steps. One thing that helped me is to take the baby steps. I&#39;ll be sitting watching TV and start to doze off. What is one small thing that can help with that? Stand up and watch TV. It&#39;ll make you feel a little less tired. Standing and watching TV, then, might make you feel a little restless, maybe you look over at the table and notice it&#39;s a little cluttered, so you walk over and clean it while you stand and watch TV. Maybe when you finish cleaning the table while you watch TV, you&#39;ll remember you have a project or assignment you need to work on, so you can start doing that while you stand and have the TV on in the background. Maybe when you worked on your project for a little while, you start to get a little mentally fatigued, so maybe you take a break with that by watching some TV, but maybe this time you do it while standing and doing some dishes.</p> <p>Simply standing is a huge starting point for me. Whenever I feel tired or lazy and I don&#39;t really want to be, and I want to be productive, I&#39;ll just stand up, maybe walk around the house a little bit. It gets the gears in motion for me, and it&#39;s an incredibly small but effective starter.</p> <p>A body in motion stays in motion and a body at rest stays at rest. I found out that is a VERY true statement.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>13.) Just do it.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Dauwz/">Dauwz</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>For me it was mostly being tired of doing nothing. Now, saying that is much easier than actually getting over it. I did my best to make it something of a habit. Come back from the office, rough day, tired as hell. Kitchen&#39;s messy? Clean it, doesn&#39;t matter how tired you are. You&#39;ll feel better when it&#39;s clean. Gotta do laundry? Do it. You&#39;ll have fresh clothes later. I&#39;ve come to find that thinking about how doing something will result in a positive goes quite a ways in terms of incentivizing you to do it.</p> <p>With time, the &#39;forcing yourself&#39; stops feeling forced and it becomes natural. My two cents.</p> </blockquote><h2>14.) Less bong, more gym.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CirclleySquare/">CirclleySquare</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>It took a while for me. I realized my laziness was probably due to being depressed, and I was depressed because I wasn&#39;t doing anything but coming home and smoking pot and playing video games. Now, I don&#39;t have problem with a little weed and video games, but for me it was routine. I started going to the gym every other day and started being more active to combat depression, and I&#39;ve since lost ~70 pounds and have become a lot happier with my way of life. I quit smoking mainly for the job I&#39;m currently trying to get, and that only helped because rather than coming home and getting stoned I wanted to do other things with my day. I have actual hobbies and interests now, and find that I like myself as a person now.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>15.) Dress for the activity you want.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/canuchangeusernames/" style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">canuchangeusernames</a><span style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">:</span></p><blockquote> <p>If it can be done in 5 minutes, get it over with now. If you have to do something like go to the gym but cant find the energy, just put on your gym clothes. Then you&#39;re already dressed.</p> </blockquote><h2>16.) Clean your room.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SaltyBarker/" style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">SaltyBarker</a><span style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">:</span></p><blockquote> <p>I cleaned my room... I used to weight close to 300 lbs. My room had trash all over it, you couldn&#39;t even see the floor and I was 19 years old. I decided to change, I cleaned my room, then started going to the gym, lost 100lbs in a year, and now at 23 am healthy, happy, and in a long term relationship, with a great job, and living life to the fullest.</p> </blockquote><h2>17.) Therapy.</h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><p>From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/FEEdwards/">FEEdwards</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Realised the laziness was actually procrastination caused by my anxiety and depression. I go to therapy now and I&#39;ve come up with ways to curb my procrastination (such as setting timers, giving myself rewards, finding more effective ways to work and working out what triggers my anxiety), and I&#39;m less harsh on myself if I&#39;m not up to a task.</p> </blockquote><h2>18.) Pick a few tasks to do and reward yourself after.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/gotsthepockets/">gotsthepockets</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Definitely easier said than done, but still very doable. I found myself wasting hours after work because I was exhausted and just couldn&#39;t bring myself to get started on all the things I should be doing.</p> <p>My new approach that has really helped is I pick 2-4 things (depending on if/how much I worked that day) that I MUST do before I sit and veg. For example, after an especially tiring day at work (I&#39;m a teacher) I will load or unload the dishwasher and clean all the counters in the kitchen. It usually takes me 15 minutes or so and then I give myself permission to sit on the couch.</p> <p>I&#39;ve learned that there are usually two results from this--I don&#39;t have to deal with that gnawing guilt of not getting stuff done OR (this happens regularly) I get my second wind and get a few more things done. Either way, I feel better mentally and physically than I did when I was just &quot;too tired&quot; after work.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>19.) There&#39;s no &quot;magic fix.&quot;</h2><p>From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/slipperyfingerss/">slipperyfingerss</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My wife suffers from depression. She basically states it as, there is no magic fix. Your meds help you at least think about what to do. But then, you just have to do it. You will never wake up one day and say, I want to tackle the world today. You just have to do little pieces at a time. She said the same as you did. Laundry, dishes, pick up clutter, and eventually work that into working out.</p> </blockquote><h2>20.) Make lists.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TheBassMeister/">TheBassMeister</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Two things that helped at least a little bit:</p> <ol> <li> <p>Doing things early during the day. The later the day gets the less likely I will do what I should do. This will also free your mind from that thing for the rest of the day.</p> </li> <li> <p>Making a visual To-Do list on a piece of paper placed in a spot that I will see it multiple times during a day.</p> </li> </ol> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>21.) Curb or quit your drinking.</h2><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Rev1physicked/">Rev1physicked</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I realized my laziness was due to drinking too much before bed in college.</p> <p><a href="http://dildos.chivon.live/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">This guy below getting dildos glued to his back passed out is great inspiration to stop.</a></p> </blockquote><p>OKAY FIIIINE I&#39;ll put on pants and get my life together. All it took was a video of a guy with dildos glued to his back.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Ex-lazy people are sharing how they overcame their laziness.

Laziness is tough to beat. Because living life is exhausting, and the pull to eat chips on the couch all day while watching reality TV all day can feel overwhelmingly powerful. Do couches have built-in magnets?! Formerly lazy people on Reddit are sharing how they were able to overcome their laziness, and it may just inspire you to turn off your TV and put on some pants. Maybe even apply to a job or call a friend to go for a walk. And if not, that&#39;s ok too. Beating laziness (which in many cases is actually undiagnosed depression or other mental health issues) takes time, and sometimes requires treatment and medication. But remember, just because you&#39;re lazy today, doesn&#39;t mean you have to be lazy forever.Take it from these ex-lazy people:1.) Routine. From YoUrK11iNMeSMa11s: Routine. I&rsquo;m a creature of habit. I had to force myself into the discomfort over and over again. Eventually this becomes the new normal. It&rsquo;s all habits, you have to force new ones. 2.) Exercise in small doses. Via jalude: To add to this, getting to the gym and doing very little the first couple weeks is a pretty good strategy to build the habit to get there. I went there three times a week and just went for a quick swim or sat in the sauna. Adding a small amount of exercise each time. Eventually at some point, something clicked, and now I feel guilty/angry at myself if I don&#39;t exercise on my scheduled days because it breaks my routine. 3.) Identifying and treating depression.Via ColCrabs: A few comments call it what it is and the others almost all seem to fall squarely into the realm of depression. The frustrating thing about this two of &lsquo;laziness&rsquo; or being unmotivated is that it&rsquo;s either ignored because you&rsquo;re lazy or it&rsquo;s given that heavy diagnosis of depression. Not all forms of depression result in you being sad, suicidal, or miserable all the time. For years now I&rsquo;ve been unmotivated and what I thought was lazy. I&rsquo;d wait till the last minute to do homework, I&rsquo;d watch YouTube or tv for hours on end, not do much with my day and I slowly stopped doing the things I enjoyed, like video games or working out. Then I ended up napping, a lot. Like physically couldn&rsquo;t stay awake no matter how hard I tried. I went to the doctor and they said the basic nonsense about diet and exercise so I figured that I&rsquo;d prove to them that wasn&rsquo;t the case. So I started eating better and exercising with no change. Saw a different doctor and she immediately diagnosed it as depression. I really didn&rsquo;t believe her since I&rsquo;m not sad, suicidal, or want to hurt other people. She gave me a referral to a therapist and left it up to me to decide when to go. Well I fucking procrastinated as usual and it took me months to go. When I arrived I immediately told the therapist I think it&rsquo;s all bullshit and I&rsquo;m not depressed. That&rsquo;s when she started explaining the different forms for depression, anxiety, and stress. It really bugs me that all forms of depression are grouped under the single name as it prevents a lot of people from getting the really simple and basic help they need to get back on track with things. Anyway, she explained that this form of depression is caused by internalizing pressure and stress which in turn exhausts you both mentally and physically. Mismanaging your time and procrastination slowly builds up a subconscious pressure that will drag you down but it will also make you accustomed to the immediate reward of not doing something. A few examples: Not washing the dishes or doing the laundry causes you to think about it each time you see it or need a dish or piece of clothing. As it piles up it also piles onto your sub-conscience but instead of doing it you can immediately get satisfaction by grabbing a new plate or a partly dirty shirt. It&rsquo;ll keep weighing on you though, throughout the day that pile will sneak into your mind for a few seconds and bring you down a little more. The same goes for sleeping. The more you hit snooze, or over sleep, or take naps when you&rsquo;re tired the more your body will become accustomed to the immediate reward of going back to sleep rather than the delayed reward of staying up and doing something productive. Anyway, I ended up going to a therapist for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy which turned into basically just a lesson on time-management and balancing work/routine/hobbies. I&rsquo;d recommend anyone who feels lazy to check it out. Things like SMART goals, the vicious/virtuous cycle, and the three legged stool are all great tools to overcome this type of laziness and depression. Edit: This workbook is what my therapist used and it&rsquo;s incredibly helpful on its own. The most important thing to remember is to not jump straight into things and expect to be better in a day. I&rsquo;ve been working at it for about a year now and some days and weeks I fall back into old routines. Overall though I went from sleeping until noon and going to sleep at crazy hours and getting 10-12 hours of sleep, eating like shit, napping, and barely getting things done to waking up at 6am going to sleep at 11pm, going to the gym every day, never napping and getting tons of work done. 4.) A full-time job.From Tyler_Oxide: Whenever I&#39;ve got a full time job, it switches my life around - I want to go to the gym, see friends, cook, etc. When I&#39;m part-time/studying/not working, I go back into mega lazy mode. 5.) The 5-minute rule. Via clownlovingbaboo: Two things: Finding something I love doing for work and the five minute rule. Basically if it will take you less than 5 minutes - you do it. this then applies to everything with motivation. You get to a point where rather than having to motivate yourself to do things you train yourself to respond to the thought. Rather than &quot;I should go to the gym&quot; being followed by trying to find the energy and being passive, you get into the habit of when you have that thought you change clothes, gather your stuff and leave the house immediately. It doesn&#39;t always help but I achieve a lot more than I used to. I think the key to making it work is getting enough sleep. 6.) Self-care. Via clownlovingbaboo: Two things: Finding something I love doing for work and the five minute rule. Basically if it will take you less than 5 minutes - you do it. this then applies to everything with motivation. You get to a point where rather than having to motivate yourself to do things you train yourself to respond to the thought. Rather than &quot;I should go to the gym&quot; being followed by trying to find the energy and being passive, you get into the habit of when you have that thought you change clothes, gather your stuff and leave the house immediately. It doesn&#39;t always help but I achieve a lot more than I used to. I think the key to making it work is getting enough sleep. 7.) Treat your mental health. Via wibbles94: I took Lexapro when I was depressed and it significantly helped. It didn&rsquo;t necessarily make me happy but it was a tool to help propel me into a healthy lifestyle. I was unable to think any negative thoughts on it, my sleep was MUCH more regulated, and I woke up refreshed and ready to start my day. I got into a daily routine of waking up early, working out, taking walks, eating healthy and eventually got off of it the lexapro as my body/serotonin responded better to my lifestyle. I was on it for about 2 months. 8.) Put off your laziness until tomorrow. Via pukegreenwithenvy By procrastinating being lazy. Genius!9.) Job that doesn&#39;t let you be lazy. Via idoidoidoew: Got a job that forced me to be &ldquo;on&rdquo; basically 100% of the time. The more others depend on me, the less lazy I tend to be. 10.) If needed, medicate.Via de_meid: Meds! Turned out the laziness was my ADD preventing me from focusing on tasks long enough to finish them. 11.) Schedule everything. From hamaTamago: I started a couple of fixed daily/weekly schedules, like what time to workout. I chose something that I enjoy doing and tie a fixed schedule to it, then expanded by scheduling more useful things like a sleeping schedule and eating schedule. I slip up occasionally, but those things that I like stay constant, and it helps. 12.) Baby steps, literally.From qdobe: Not to dimish what other people are saying, but sometimes the &quot;Just do it&quot; advice doesn&#39;t quite touch home for a lot of people, like me, who dosen&#39;t necessarily feel lazy but just tired all the time, which can be construed as laziness. But do you ever notice when you&#39;re feeling tired or &quot;lazy&quot; it&#39;s usually when your sitting? Maybe watching TV, sitting on the computer, in a comfortable position? Sometimes being productive takes steps. One thing that helped me is to take the baby steps. I&#39;ll be sitting watching TV and start to doze off. What is one small thing that can help with that? Stand up and watch TV. It&#39;ll make you feel a little less tired. Standing and watching TV, then, might make you feel a little restless, maybe you look over at the table and notice it&#39;s a little cluttered, so you walk over and clean it while you stand and watch TV. Maybe when you finish cleaning the table while you watch TV, you&#39;ll remember you have a project or assignment you need to work on, so you can start doing that while you stand and have the TV on in the background. Maybe when you worked on your project for a little while, you start to get a little mentally fatigued, so maybe you take a break with that by watching some TV, but maybe this time you do it while standing and doing some dishes. Simply standing is a huge starting point for me. Whenever I feel tired or lazy and I don&#39;t really want to be, and I want to be productive, I&#39;ll just stand up, maybe walk around the house a little bit. It gets the gears in motion for me, and it&#39;s an incredibly small but effective starter. A body in motion stays in motion and a body at rest stays at rest. I found out that is a VERY true statement. 13.) Just do it.Via Dauwz: For me it was mostly being tired of doing nothing. Now, saying that is much easier than actually getting over it. I did my best to make it something of a habit. Come back from the office, rough day, tired as hell. Kitchen&#39;s messy? Clean it, doesn&#39;t matter how tired you are. You&#39;ll feel better when it&#39;s clean. Gotta do laundry? Do it. You&#39;ll have fresh clothes later. I&#39;ve come to find that thinking about how doing something will result in a positive goes quite a ways in terms of incentivizing you to do it. With time, the &#39;forcing yourself&#39; stops feeling forced and it becomes natural. My two cents. 14.) Less bong, more gym.Via CirclleySquare: It took a while for me. I realized my laziness was probably due to being depressed, and I was depressed because I wasn&#39;t doing anything but coming home and smoking pot and playing video games. Now, I don&#39;t have problem with a little weed and video games, but for me it was routine. I started going to the gym every other day and started being more active to combat depression, and I&#39;ve since lost ~70 pounds and have become a lot happier with my way of life. I quit smoking mainly for the job I&#39;m currently trying to get, and that only helped because rather than coming home and getting stoned I wanted to do other things with my day. I have actual hobbies and interests now, and find that I like myself as a person now. 15.) Dress for the activity you want.Via canuchangeusernames: If it can be done in 5 minutes, get it over with now. If you have to do something like go to the gym but cant find the energy, just put on your gym clothes. Then you&#39;re already dressed. 16.) Clean your room.Via SaltyBarker: I cleaned my room... I used to weight close to 300 lbs. My room had trash all over it, you couldn&#39;t even see the floor and I was 19 years old. I decided to change, I cleaned my room, then started going to the gym, lost 100lbs in a year, and now at 23 am healthy, happy, and in a long term relationship, with a great job, and living life to the fullest. 17.) Therapy. From FEEdwards: Realised the laziness was actually procrastination caused by my anxiety and depression. I go to therapy now and I&#39;ve come up with ways to curb my procrastination (such as setting timers, giving myself rewards, finding more effective ways to work and working out what triggers my anxiety), and I&#39;m less harsh on myself if I&#39;m not up to a task. 18.) Pick a few tasks to do and reward yourself after.Via gotsthepockets: Definitely easier said than done, but still very doable. I found myself wasting hours after work because I was exhausted and just couldn&#39;t bring myself to get started on all the things I should be doing. My new approach that has really helped is I pick 2-4 things (depending on if/how much I worked that day) that I MUST do before I sit and veg. For example, after an especially tiring day at work (I&#39;m a teacher) I will load or unload the dishwasher and clean all the counters in the kitchen. It usually takes me 15 minutes or so and then I give myself permission to sit on the couch. I&#39;ve learned that there are usually two results from this--I don&#39;t have to deal with that gnawing guilt of not getting stuff done OR (this happens regularly) I get my second wind and get a few more things done. Either way, I feel better mentally and physically than I did when I was just &quot;too tired&quot; after work. 19.) There&#39;s no &quot;magic fix.&quot;From slipperyfingerss: My wife suffers from depression. She basically states it as, there is no magic fix. Your meds help you at least think about what to do. But then, you just have to do it. You will never wake up one day and say, I want to tackle the world today. You just have to do little pieces at a time. She said the same as you did. Laundry, dishes, pick up clutter, and eventually work that into working out. 20.) Make lists.Via TheBassMeister: Two things that helped at least a little bit:   Doing things early during the day. The later the day gets the less likely I will do what I should do. This will also free your mind from that thing for the rest of the day.   Making a visual To-Do list on a piece of paper placed in a spot that I will see it multiple times during a day.   21.) Curb or quit your drinking.Rev1physicked: I realized my laziness was due to drinking too much before bed in college. This guy below getting dildos glued to his back passed out is great inspiration to stop. OKAY FIIIINE I&#39;ll put on pants and get my life together. All it took was a video of a guy with dildos glued to his back.

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