You know when you are doing something or struggling with something bad, but then you have to address it and share with people, there is always this feeling of guilt that comes with it and a sense of relief that comes with it because you overcame or are overcoming it and now you're sharing it with people, and it's not only the problem you are sharing but you're also sharing the solution to it, yeah that's how I felt while writing this.
As a young lady and a struggling believer that I am, I struggle(d) with laziness. I'm not lazy when it comes to running errands for my mum or doing house chores and that is because I had no choice than to do them. However, when I'm alone in my place at school, I feel reluctant to do most things apart from cooking and cleaning my room, but when it comes to some other stuffs like writing, shopping for house needs, reading and taking my online classes, I became so reluctant to do these things, and gradually I stopped doing all these things unless it is super important and I really have to do them. Later on, I figured that I've become so lazy that it's starting to affect my spiritual life, my alarm comes on around 12 in the midnight for me to say my prayers, I started by reducing the prayer time, gradually, it turned to an hour, then thirty minutes, slowly 15 minutes, and finally, began flipping my phone over anytime the alarm for midnight prayer comes on. Studying the word for a long time and having koinonia with the scribes and teachers of old, became a thing I would schedule 10 minutes for with an excuse of I'm busy. Olúwaṣeun, busy doing what? Nothing.
My laziness condition started getting "wesser" and "wesser" day by day until, it almost eat all my gut out and I have to face it and stop being lazy. It was not easy but I did it with the grace of God.
Firstly, I accepted the fact that I was lazy, you know the saying "the beginning of solving a problem is knowing or identifying and accepting or admitting the problem. I knew nothing was wrong with me spiritually, I was fully aware that no "village people" were after me on this, I was after myself with being lazy. First step taken, I admitted to being lazy.
The second thing I did was becoming more intentional about being active and doing things at the right time, I said no to procrastinating. The third step I took was I stopped creating excuses for myself and I stopped the "at all at all nah hin bad pass" character. I began seeing things for the best in them and the good result. I began to overlook the time and strength it takes to get the best out of a thing. Doing things for doing it sake will not make you do it properly and you'd probably not get any great result, but when you begin to do it, not because you have to but because you want to and because you want to see the good in it, you'll enjoy life better.
I noticed these three steps helped me overcome laziness and helped me bring back my spiritual life back to balance, so I decided to write about my laziness condition.
Here are the three steps again:
v Admitting you are lazy
v Being intentional about doing something and stop procrastinating
v Do away with excuses and "I don't care character".
This newsletter didn't come as a result of being creative, it is a result of what I experienced and how I overcame laziness, if you are also going through the same condition (laziness), this newsletter will/might help you.
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Love, light and amala.
OLUSEUN AYANFEBABA.
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I've also encountered laziness and procrastination; it mostly comes from a place of comfort. It's really easy to be comfortable with things that don't challenge us...it's high time we challenge both our physical and spiritual life ... blessings Seun