The difference between the lazy you talk about and the bad lazy is not saying i’ll do it tommorow.

I do this often, yes lazy people do think of the most efficient ways of living and doing thing yet what fails them is that they say they will do the thing later on or tommorow and well this tommorow never comes.

Lazy people delay a task so long that they usually end up forgetting to do it or they will just keep stressing about it rather than actually doing it.

If you have the answer to that then let me know.

Just yesterday I decided that I would think harder on the choices I make in my life. By that I meant that I would ask myself three questions:

1. What am I going to do (next/about something/etc.)?
2. Why would I want to do that (what I’ve chosen)?
(If there’s a good enough reason, then I proceed with:)
3. How would I want to do that?

If you look beyond the form of my questions, you will notice that my questions are in many ways similar to yours, only mine should be asked *before* you start doing something, while yours are designed for when you already have a task and are contemplating whether you should do it at all, how and why, etc.

I disagree that these are the questions of a lazy person. I think these are the questions that every thinking individual should ask himself. It is a virtue to think rationally – about everything. Thinking rationally means that you are seeking a way to obtain a value – therefore, seeking a way to increase your productivity. It’s not a lazy person who would do this – a lazy person would rather not; a lazy person seeks to avoid this; it is a virtuous, productive person who would think.

What about those who were taught that work means using muscles rather than wits? They need to rethink what they were taught. But as you correctly note – it takes courage to do this.

Regards,
Nikola

Great points. Laziness to some is effectiveness to others.

I am lazy in Aikido because I have busted my ass at the foundations. Now I can take it easy and research the validity of what I am learning in depth. That would not have occurred without eleven years of study, seventeen years of T’ai Chi in addition, living at my dojo training 12 times a week for nearly three years, doing 600 sword cuts and 1000 squats a day for those three years, coming down from 396 pounds to 190, getting my 3rd degree black belt in close to the shortest time allowed outside of Japan, and becoming the general manager of my dojo. With all of the above I have still been called lazy on the mat, and it always makes me smile. And yeah, I am a lazy man in Aikido.