Are you admittedly lazy, but trying to be more productive in your day-to-day activities?Good news: You can be productively lazy and get more things done without actually doing more work. If you doubt this, think of your office-dwelling boss that shoots off emails telling others what to do to make him/herself look more productive -- delegation is a productivity tool of the lazy.
How To Be Lazy & Productive At The Same Time
Automate Your Life (Take Shortcuts)
Take faster showers. Apply a cream hair remover or spray such as one by Sally Hansen or Nair
to eliminate the need to shave.Coffee drinker? Replace your traditional coffee maker with a single-cup coffee pod machine. You'll never need to prepare coffee bags and filters again nor clean a coffee pot. It's perfect. I own a Senseo coffee machine in Black that makes a perfect cup of coffee or cappuccino every time with minimal maintanence.
If you do a lot of web work, automate your tasks with browser extensions. My favorites include iMacros (perfect for filling out forms) and social bookmarking extensions such as StumbleUpon and Del.icio.us bookmarks. After you've got Del.icio.us bookmarks installed, press Ctrl+D (Windows) to bookmark and tag any page on the web for fast finding.
Delegate Your Tasks
If you're in the office and know you won't complete your deadlines for the day, get the OK from your boss to delegate tasks to the admin assistant. Even better, if your office uses Outlook for company email, you can Assign Task items on your task list to the assistant without having to leave your seat! Convenient and lazy. Don't forget Administrative Assistant Day (in April) if you're a repeat offender.
Get the kids to do it. Teaching your kids to clean and cook when appropriate takes time in the beginning but then allows time for you to be lazy later. This is productive because it teaches them diligence while you have a little time to catch up on emails and other light duties.
Pay someone else to do it. This is ideal for the freelance worker because you can get someone to market your services by paying them a cut of the client lead and everyone wins. If you're behind on household duties, pay a cleaner or that friend/relative that would lend any help for a little extra cash.
Procrastinate
Yes, you can be lazy sometimes to get things done. Hold off on completing items on your task list. One of two things will happen. One possibility is that you'll realize tasks you thought you wanted to complete weren't that important afterall. If an item becomes deadline and you realize you need to complete it at the last minute, you will really get moving to do so. You've had enough time to be lazy, it's now time to work! But once you get your deadline tasks completed, you can relax and be lazy all over again. Ah, the life.
4 comments:
Cute post with some good tips! I was just thinking today that I wish I could hire a maid...
I have to admit my bf does everything for me, he even fed me jello for no reason earlier. it's made me so lazy...hahhaa
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