Several months ago I was made aware of a self-help concept that if practiced can be quite revolutionary. I learned it while taking a course by Michael Bernoff and then have heard my pastor say that he uses the hack and he comes from a John Maxwell leadership background. What is it you ask? It’s so simple that you may not believe it.
When you are wasting odious amounts of time doing nothing useful, scrolling through Twitter, commenting on senseless posts on Facebook and watching a YouTube video on how to train a snake, you really are accomplishing nothing. Do you have a way to make yourself stop? Is it just a large amount of self-discipline or do you have a hack to make yourself get up and do something productive?
The hack that was given to me chose a word, a word that gives you a terrible feeling, a feeling that you want to reverse. This isn’t necessarily to make you feel like a terrible person but rather to make you want to reverse your actions. Choose a word that will jolt you out of your senseless time-wasting and will provide the fuel to motivate you into doing something which is profitable.
The word that I chose is laziness. If I had to name a pet peeve it would be laziness. When there is a job to do I was taught that you roll up your sleeves and you work until the job is accomplished. So when I think of myself as being lazy it makes me want to reverse that.
What word will motivate you? What word will jolt you into a productive action?