Lazy Nigerian Youths
LAZY NIGERIAN YOUTHS
Sad but true, no one ever agrees he/she is lazy, but yet, man at his steady state is a very lazy being. He will almost not do anything except compelled by serious need, hunger, authority or any other force greater than him. It is as though the infinite being (God) left a fair dose of this syrup in each of us so that success wouldn't just be automatic because to succeed, it's winning the war against laziness. Laziness by it nature exist in different forms, primarily, physical and mental, maybe spiritual laziness could be added.
Physical laziness to sure, is not the absence of physical strength as some misconstrued. Physical laziness is that reluctancy to response to physical activities even when it's utmost importance and necessary. Physical laziness makes physical tasks appear bigger than they really are. It gives false and instant feeling that you're tired. It makes working as stressful. Your physical laziness could be playing football on your head when you're hungry, and there are food items but yet cooking appear as though you are about to climb Mount Everest or when you have clothes to wash, yet washing appears as you're counting the sands.
Mental laziness on the other hand, is that loathness to engage in activities that task the mind or brain. This form of laziness is very subtle, it wouldn't even let you know there's anything wrong -with which faculty would you think something is wrong with you? The way it tricks the mind and the brain, I can't tell. To be sure, mental laziness has nothing to do with someone having dull brain or being a dummy, you can be very intelligent but yet mentally lazy. Mental laziness is that thing that will make you like a post even without reading it. It is mental laziness that will make you not type any comments in a post even when it has added value to your life, it may not even allow you ask questions even if you wish to know more. A book of 120 pages looks like an encyclopedia because mental laziness is eating deep in your head. It is mental laziness that has delayed or hindered you from writing and submitting that application, project or proposal.
Laziness in any of its form doesn't allow you to give full expression to your potentials, it hinders your personal development, and hinders you from taking advantage of opportunities. Laziness is the enemy of mastery, it is enemy of progress and the enemy within,is the worse enemy.
Like I said earlier, to be successful we must overcome this friend-enemy. Friend, because it makes us feel comfortable, enemy because it contends with our progress. Like I said, laziness is very subtle, to be overcomed we need to approach it subtly. Firstly, we not deny the fact that we are lazy beings, laziness is not a curse, it is just one of those hurdles that needs to be overcome. it will always appear you have any task whether physical or mental to perform.
However to overcome laziness here is my recommendation, -at any time you have something to do and laziness seems to show up, just prompt yourself, speak up to yourself and respond immediately by actions. You may never know, there is so much power in speaking to yourself,it gives the mind the prompt it needs and set in action pulses that trigger our body to move.