Fighting Laziness and Regaining Proactivity
I am a little angry with myself because, for the past few days, I have been lazy, tired, indisposed, and too lazy to do anything. I don't really want to blame it on the cold and catarrh I am having at the moment, but on myself for not being proactive in matters regarding my life.
My personal mission statement is to be proactive in every aspect of my life, but yet I have failed myself. I have failed to follow my regular habit pattern. On a normal day, I wake up 5 a.m. and follow a stream of activities that involve praying, exercising, cleaning, reading, and writing before any other activity of the day, but recently, I have been waking up too late, even when I sleep early. Imagine waking up at 8 a.m. today and around 9 a.m. yesterday, which was Monday.
Waking up so late disorients my mental system so much that I cannot follow the routine, and thus my whole day gets affected. I end up not feeling in control again, and I feel lazy. I hate that feeling, and this has affected my writing on Hive. This is one of the reasons I have not written any posts on Hive for the past 4 days, even when I really needed to do this so that I could achieve my goals for this month.
Talking about my goals for this month, it feels like I may not be able to attain them because of how I have wasted the last 4 days. I need to finish some courses before the deadline and build two projects that involve computer vision and NLP, which means natural language processing. These are the set goals for the year so I can end the year feeling accomplished, and somehow I fear I may not accomplish these goals.
But anyways, I am doing my best to fight that tiring feeling by forcing myself to write down my thoughts on here—what I think about myself—and maybe this will cause my system to push and start putting its brains and body to work as time waits for no man, as my future depends on every minute I spend during these times.
Tomorrow would be another opportunity to start the day, and I hope my body doesn't feel too weak to start. Hopefully my mind will be strong enough to fight, knowing how close my deadlines are.
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I think this happens mostly to people but when it becomes too much, then it's something else. Waking up so late does affect our schedules for the day and it would be as if something else is in control and not us, in the end, we feel unproductive for not achieving all we have set out to do. I hope tomorrow won't be like that.
Perhaps you could do something I do: place your alarm at a distance so that while it rings, you will feel the urge to get up and kill the sound. You won't feel like returning back to bed again. Lol
smiles... My alarm actually used to be at a distance. I would stand up myself to turn off the alarm and go back to bed. That is how I have been doing it. I think it could be because of my cold and catarrh.
😂 You return back to bed again? Hehehe
Mine is that, once I stand up, I will ift my bed up to get my chair and table in position for devotion, work and other things for the day.
Sometimes, things don't go the way we want, and that can be frustrating, especially when we don't achieve our goals at the pace we have set. It's okay to have a few bad days; but, what matters is how to get back on track. Don't be too hard on yourself, just take things one step at a time. I hope things get better for you soon, bro. We just have to keep the fighting spirit going, no matter what.
Thanks man, for the kind words... I would do my best to get back on track, and keep the fighting spirit.
Yeah bro. Enjoy.
I don't know...I mean I understand that you want to be proactive and all that but if you genuinely feel down which we can tell from the cold you're feeling, would it be so bad if you toned your proactivity down a notch? I means it's your health we're talking about here. Not some frivolity. If you really feel down, there's nothing wrong in taking a little break so that you don't collapse completely.
yeah true... I totally understand that my health should be more important. This is why I took the time to give myself enough rest and try to solve the issues I have with my cold.
I really appreciate your comment @jhymi
Star, you have been doing alot lately. Remember you are only a human and not a robot. In as much as it's good to be proactive, sometimes our flesh may not agree with us and we just have to get some rest, at least, you haven't been feeling well all along. The current program you have been taking takes a lot of time and energy, however I hope you find balance and the strength to keep up with your work here
Yeah, I really do I hope I find the balance and also be able to take care of my health. Thank you very much @nkemakonam89
Waking up late also has a way of affecting my whole day and I have been lazy for sometime now. Anyway, it is never too late to pick up your goals again and work on them.
I wish you well and I hope you don’t give up
yeah I would pick up my goals, and strategize on how I would work on them.. Thank you very much for always @rafzat
We all can have a case of the lazies sometimes! It’s important to not let it overtake though as that can become problematic! Hopefully you didn’t get thrown too off schedule and can get back onto it soon!
Yeah, I think the reason I was so lazy and weak was the drugs I was taking. They were having such an effect on me that it made me want to go to bed and tired in a way. I am feeling much more better now.