OSUN STATE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ESA OKE

OSUN STATE

ASSIGNMENT ON

PRIZE OF LAZINESS

COURSE TITLE

COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH

COURSE CODE: GSE 221

PREPARED BY

OGUNORUNLAYEDE MERCY AJOKE

MATRIC NO: 1910310029

DEPARTMENT OF BANKING AND FINANCE

FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

LECTURER IN CHARGE

MR BABAJIDE
WHAT IS LAZINESS?

Laziness is a state where you don’t want to do anything, you’re totally unwilling to
spend your energy. When you think doing a task is very difficult and even
impossible for you this state is known as laziness. It’s your desire to do nothing
and remain idle like a lifeless body.

You’ve heard many times that human beings are quite lazy by nature and that’s
very true. A lazy person just wants to live a comfortable and luxurious life he just
can’t use his physical energy.

If you can simply lie down and relax then why would you want to work to achieve
your goals?

L- Lie down

A- Aimlessly without any

Z- Zeal in

Y- Yourself.

PRIZES OF LAZINESS

There can be various prizes of laziness. It is compulsory for you to know the
causes first. It will help you to overcome this serious problem because the only
way to overcome any type of problem is to understand what is the reason behind it.
So let’s discuss.

1. Lack of motivation

Now, this is the very first and most common reason for laziness. You can never
achieve anything in life without proper motivation. You just keep demotivating
yourself that you can’t do anything, you are a looser and many other such kinds of
things.

This is the reason which will always prevent you to move forward in your life.
Lack of motivation can be the biggest cause of laziness when you are unwilling to
do any work because you have no motivation for doing any work.
2. No specific goal of life

This is the second most important cause of laziness because if we think practically
then this is quite sure that if a person has no goals to achieve in his life then what
work he’ll do and the reason is obvious he’ll become so lazy.

Your goals of life always motivate you to work further to proceed further in your
life and if you’ll not your any specific goal then you’ll become lazy for sure.

3. Fear of responsibility and accountability

Most of the people always fear to take responsibility because they consider
themselves good for nothing. They just don’t want to take any responsibility
because anything goes wrong then they have to answer for the same. And they just
can’t face questions.
That’s why most of the people are unwilling to work because they are afraid of
being held responsible for the outcome of the work they had assigned.

4. Poor Lifestyle Choices

Most of the people live unplanned and totally careless lifestyles. They keep on
doing things that are not important at all such as chatting on social media, watching
movies and texting. Most active people on social media can confess that hours pass
by without even their noticing.

Social media tends to consume a lot of time for everybody. It keeps you busy and
prevents you from doing what really matters to you. If you are a victim of this,
then you’ll feel your inability to get work done.

Your mind needs adequate rest and when it doesn’t get, it dramatically affects your
ability to perform tasks in an effective manner.

5. Fear of failure

Most of the people are afraid of doing anything because of the fear of failure. Fear
of failure can be the real cause of laziness. These people are not ready to take the
risk because of their fear of not losing anything in life. But the fact is without
taking a risk we can’t try anything new. We have to try something and take the risk
to achieve something in our life.
6. Depression

Depression can also be the reason of laziness. In this state of mind, people don’t
want to do any work and they just want to live alone in a dark room. The person
doesn’t feel the energy to work and just remain idle. They feel depressed and
hopeless this makes them lazy.

7. Indecisiveness

Life is all about the decisions you make in it. The mind of some people just can’t
be made up or they can’t decide what to do and this can lead them to laziness.

You just keep on wasting your day without deciding anything for the day. If you
can’t make decisions in your life then this is the biggest reason for your laziness.

8. Distraction

When you experience unrelated things in your mind while working it means you’re
distracted. The more you’ll get distracted the less you’ll be able to complete the
task given to you.

The most common causes of distraction in this era are social media, talkative
friends, a lot of hang out and thinking about exciting upcoming events.

9. Exhausting

Any work or activity even if it is mental activity require energy, enthusiasm, and a
clean mind. When we are exhausted, our mind starts functioning in a different way
and we can’t work properly in an efficient manner. The other reason may be
sometimes we work too hard and we feel exhausted.

On the other hand, lazy people exhaust themselves doing non-important things
such as chatting the whole day, partying, and playing video games hence leaving
the important things undone.

10. Poor Nutrition

What you eat helps to determine your energy levels and brain activity. The diet you
take daily is very important for your day to day works. If you don’t eat a well-
balanced diet, your body will not function properly and also you’ll not work, this
will make you lazy for sure.

11. Procrastination

Procrastination is something when a person always postpones the important things.

When they don’t do the work on time that needs to be done now. Laziness usually
comes from postponing something that needs to be done.

It might be urgent or not but why postpone it while you can do it now? If you
understand this question then you’ll never postpone any work. Procrastination only
makes things harder and a cause of laziness.

12. Lack of Self Worth

If you believe in yourself only then you can face any task in your life but lazy
people never understand self-worth and this makes them more lazy and
demotivated.

On the other hand, those that don’t value themselves never care for hygiene. They
live in dirty houses, wear dirty clothes because they can’t put efforts to clean them
and they start thinking they don’t deserve anything better.

13. Dependent Life

When a person usually depends on another person. When a person can’t live on his
own and always feel dependent on any other person. He just can’t do his work
himself this makes him lazy. If you’ll find a support system in your life then you
can never succeed in your life you have to your own support system.

14. Too Much to Do

When any person has a lot of things to do at the same time then his brain tends to
become confused and slows down. The person keeps on convincing themselves
that he simply cannot do it. When the person is convinced that the task at hand is
too much for them, they see no reason to even start and it leads to laziness.
15. Low energy

This is the most common cause of laziness. It is also can happen due to the lack of
sleep, poor diet, rest and exercise. If you don’t eat or sleep properly then you’ll
experience low energy in your body. This will lead you to laziness.

Effects of Laziness

Laziness is the biggest enemy of any person because it can ruin your life
completely. Laziness will also prevent you to proceed further.

 You can never achieve anything in your life.

 This will keep you confused and disturbed the whole day.
 It will reduce your ability and efficiency.
 Laziness can also affect your health.
 You can’t work properly in an efficient manner.
 This can reduce your thinking power or memory.

WAYS OF OVERCOMING LAZINESS

1. Get Motivation

Lack of motivation is the biggest cause of laziness and you have to overcome this
cause first. You have to keep yourself motivated all the time to work more and
success earlier. You can do many things to remain motivated.

 Don’t depend on others to motivate you in fact, you must have the power to
motivate them.
 Read the biographies of successful people.
 You should appreciate yourself for good things.
 Think creative ideas and work for them.
 Try to understand the importance of the task you’re doing.

2. Rest, sleep and exercise

In many cases, we see less rest and insufficient sleep result as laziness. So the best
way for overcoming laziness is-

 Take proper Rest.

 Sufficient hours for sleep.
  You must exercise regularly.
 These tips will help to overcome this problem.

3. Always think about benefit

This is also one of the important causes that you have to overcome. When you
always think about the difficulties or obstacles and not about your growth. If you
want to overcome this problem then always think about your benefits and take
proper actions to get more benefits. It will be helpful for you to focus your mind on
the benefits, not on the difficulties or obstacles.

4. Do not engage in everything

Just make sure that you work on only one thing at a time and not many things. You
should always focus on one thing at a time because when we do a lot to do, then
we can’t do even one thing properly. Then laziness overcomes to you instead of
you for overcoming laziness. So always focus on one thing at a time.

5. Think about the Consequences

You should worry about the result when you didn’t work for them. Always think
about the consequences of what will happen if you will not perform your duties on
time. It will push you to take action on time and overcoming laziness.

6. Imagination

Your imagination is something that influences your mind, habits, and action.
Positive as well as negative imaginations influence your mind. Your positive
imagination helps you to perform your tasks easily and vice-versa.

7. Break down your larger goals into small attainable goals

Now, just clear one thing in your mind that you can’t achieve grand goals at the
start so you should take some time and break them in small parts. It will be easy
for you if you divide your larger goals into small attainable goals.

These small goals will help to plan your next move and they will keep you
motivated the whole time. You should keep on checking from time to time to know
that are you on the right track or not because larger goals take time and a person
may feel laziness to achieve that larger goal.
8. Learn from successful people

Watch successful people, read their biographies and learn from them how they are
handling all this, how they don’t let laziness win. Always learn from successful
people, talk to them, understand them, and associate with them. It will help you to
do better and to overcome this problem.

9. A balance between work and life

This is the most important part to make a balance between these two terms. For
living a happy life you should maintain a balance between professional life and
personal life. Both should remain separated. If you’ll work the whole then your
personal life will become boring.

Only the work is not important in our life it is also necessary to enjoy our life in a
great way. So always whatever that you want to do.

10. Proper Vision & goal

Everyone should have a proper vision in their lives what they want to be, what they
want to achieve in their life and what type of life they want to live. Everything
should be very clear and it will not only help you to motivate but it also helps to
overcome this problem of overcoming laziness.

11. Nothing changes until you do

You should note one thing nothing can change until you do something for it. If you
are satisfied with your work then there is no need to change but if you feel lazy in
doing it then you have to change it to overcome this problem and to do better.
Setting your mind to the task and try to complete it.

12. Dump your negative thinking

As you all know that negative thinking always brings you down and makes you
lazier instead of making you active.

Try to convert your negative thinking into positive thinking and spent more time
with positive thinking people and learn more things from them. Spend very less
time with negative thinking people.
13. Always do what you want

When you will start doing things that you want to do you will start enjoying it and
you will not feel lazy about it. You will be filled with joy and get success easily.

You can do work for a long time if you do work that you love. So always do those
things that you love. It will help you to overcome the problem of laziness.

14. Avoid procrastination

Procrastination is something when a person postpones important things further.

When they don’t do the work on time that needs to be done right now.

Laziness usually comes from postponing something that needs to be done at that
time but you should not do this kind of mistake, you have to be more careful about
your work and its urgency to be done.

15. Repeat affirmations

Affirmations really help you to give positive vibes so Tell yourself on a daily basis
like:

“I can do this.”

“Yes, I can accomplish my goal.”

“I have the energy and motivation to work and do whatever I want or have to do.”

“Doing things makes me stronger.”

“Doing things makes things happen.”

16. Learn to take risk

When a person doesn’t want to take a risk or he/she might be afraid of taking the
risk then seriously he can’t achieve anything in life. So you have to learn to take
the risk this will help you in overcoming laziness and it will keep you active and
motivated the whole time.
17. Balanced diet

A balanced and nutrient food keeps you active the whole day and if you’ll not eat a
healthy diet then it will make you lazy so take a healthy and balanced diet for
overcoming laziness and other problems.

18. Independent life

Start living life on your own and understand your responsibility and self-worth. If
you’ll depend on others then you can never overcome the problem of laziness so
the most things you have to do is to start living your own life.