12 Amazing Benefits Of Being Lazy And Procrastinating- Lead Perfect Life

Lazy people may not be the first one to make the move when in need, but they sure do find ways. where they can get things done with minimum efforts.

They can and do get things done with minimum efforts.

Also as quoted by Bill Gates too...

I would always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job as he would find the easiest way to do it...

I often curse myself for my laziness, my inability to focus on the task at hand, my tendency towards easier and more immediate gratification. 

It leads to nothing but feeling racked with guilt, anxiety and disappointment. Which is a damn shame really. It defeats the purpose of procrastinating in the first place. …So now I’m trying to embrace it. 

Sometimes, a day spent mostly laughing at pet videos, gossiping with colleagues, or discovering on Facebook that the rate of chest compressions in CPR is the beat of “Stayin’ Alive,” should be considered a good day.  

After all, if good things come to those who wait then procrastination is a virtue.

#1. Makes you more productive

Counter-intuitive, no? The truth is whatever you resist, persist. Take an insomniac for example. The person is unable to get to sleep because ultimately he's resisting being awake. 

He's forcing himself to sleep in the same way a procrastinator forces himself to work. When insomniacs are ordered to stay awake, the pressure to sleep disappears. 

They drop off to sleep much faster than through sheer determination. Likewise, embracing procrastination leads to its opposite. What you should be doing is adding "Procrastinate!" as a priority on your to-do list.

#2. Does your admin

Expenses, invoices, filing, taxes, overdue bills. Even a small pile of work that you dread doing can sit around undone indefinitely. 

The trouble is that if you can't face spending half an hour on something dull and non-urgent today, there's not much reason for you to change your mind tomorrow, or ever really. 

The answer of course is to wait until another job comes along that you dread even more, which magically makes all that admin feel like an escape. All you have to do now is give in.

#3. Cures Perfectionism

If you're a perfectionist, you're probably never going to get everything exactly right. Leaving your work to the last minute is a way of giving yourself permission do a merely adequate job. 

When you find out that 99 percent of the time a merely adequate job is all that is needed, you might quit trying to be perfect all the time. A side effect of that is you end up procrastinating less.

#4. It's an early warning of problems to come

Procrastination serves as a symptom of something fundamentally wrong. It may be because you haven’t planned thoroughly enough, or you lack important information, skills, or resources to get the job done. 

Your subconscious is often telling you something when you want to postpone a task. It’s a sign that you should be taking a step back from the problem, not towards it. 

Just jumping right in without thinking through the consequences and weaknesses can bring about new problems and delays. Think about it as the one step back before taking two steps forward.

#5. It's a productivity tool

Novelist and screenwriter, Raymond Chandler actually did more writing through forced procrastination. He set aside four hours each day for writing. 

He only had two very simple rules
1. you don't have to write. 
2. you can't do anything else.  

In order to avoid the tedium of sitting idle for four hours per day he became a highly productive writer. Even kids given the alternative of "nothing else" will learn something just to keep from being bored. Make it a habit today.

#6. Directs you to where your passion lies

The thing which you procrastinate on and should be doing, isn't the thing you should be doing. Why haven’t you practiced your guitar? 

Why haven’t you memorised the list of German phrases? Cause ultimately you didn't want to do it. Perhaps it was only to impress people. 

The desire to procrastinate on a task means that it's just not valuable to you. Feeling excited and not wanting to put something off is a sure sign you’re on the right path. 

The same applies to people. If there’s one friend you're always procrastinating to call then maybe you don't need to be friends. You only want to do things and be around people you truly enjoy. Don't feel guilty or you'll ruin it.

#7. Makes you more creative

If you want more creativity in your work you have to make time dreaming up ideas, weighing them in your mind, following false leads and tearing off on wild mental goose chases. 

This is called, “creative faffing.” To outsiders, it looks like… well, like nothing much at all. You’re leaning back in your chair, feet up, staring at the ceiling. Or you’re fiddling with the Japanese action figure standing over your desk. 

Of course while you're doing this you're also letting the ideas percolate. Instead of methodically working through the task let things naturally ferment and bubble to the surface in a more inspired form. 

Think Google and 3M. They intentionally allot employees’ time away from their real work.

#8. Saves time :)

Sometimes things you had to do initially just disappear. Procrastination tends to filter out unnecessary work. Stop admiring busy people and busy methodologies. 

These give the impression of doing something when really nothing's happening at all. Most large organisations assign tasks to workers that aren't vital to the business. 

When employees stalls on these tasks more urgent or important jobs arise. Then often the initial work is scrapped. Following the 80/20 principle, 80% of your result is due to only 20% of your work. 

You might as well spend the majority of your time being busy procrastinating.

#9. Facilitates change

If you're running on a treadmill caught in the rat race then you, my friend, need to be procrastinating more. It slows you down, in a good way. 
It provides buffer space for insights to come that will get you out of your work-obsessed modern existence. 

As mentioned, procrastinating is your intuition communicating that something isn’t quite right. It won’t get you your dream job, ...although JK Rowling did get fired from her secretary job for procrastinating. 

She spent too much time at work daydreaming and secretly writing about a teenage wizard. Now she’s the richest self-made female millionaire in the UK. ...Just sayin'.

#10. Gets more work done overall

Normally if you do the assigned task first you might call it a day and not get anything else done. At least when procrastinating something else is being done, whether that’s returning emails, reading a blogpost, or tidying your room. 

Hey why not exploit the loophole in procrastination to make it work for you. You’re likely to do the assigned job if you go out and seek a task that’s even more urgent, more important to delay on. 

Realize you can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t work you’re supposed to be doing. Yes, you need to be procrastinating at a higher level people! Like all things it's a muscle and takes practice. You'll get there.

#11.Strategic Flexibility

The benefit of procrastination has long been observed in the world of business. By delaying action, one can retain flexibility and improvise in the moment. This leaves one free to pursue the best course of action at all moments.

Lincoln didn’t finish the closing paragraph of the Gettysburg Address until the morning of his speech. Martin Luther King was still refining his address as he walked up to the podium: the words ‘I have a dream’ were not even in his draft at all. Strategic flexibility can be a real competitive advantage - perhaps more so for entrepreneurs.

#12. Resets your mind

Procrastination is letting the mind wonder. When you have a hard problem to solve, or a task that requires a prolonged mind effort, it is often impossible to complete it at one go. It might even be unrealistic to expect yourself to do so.

Some recent studies show that procrastination can help creativity. Taking a break to let the mind wonder, can help solve these hard problems.

It might also be linked to the Zeigarnik Effect-a phenomenon where people remember tasks better if they were interrupted, rather than allowed to complete them.

Well, these were some great perks of being lazy, at least they made me think that I was not that useless as being lazy, then I thought why I was thinking about this and I should better doze off now.

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