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und the clock to clean your house.</p><p id="d265">The opportunities are endless!</p><h2 id="be5f">Club your tasks together</h2><p id="2f39">Many birds with one stone.</p><p id="0b44">You may have a lot to do on a weekend. Group all the tasks together. Go to a place where you’d be able to do most of the required activities. You may need a haircut, do monthly shopping, watch a new movie, and send clothes for dry cleaning. Go to a shopping mall that hosts all these stores.</p><h2 id="ec09">Keep the most rewarding task for the last</h2><p id="5c22">That way, you’re working towards something fun.</p><p id="2c04">For your weekend task trip, you may have a lot to do. But also keep a fun activity like a massage or movie at the end of it. Purchase the movie ticket beforehand so that you also have a deadline for your other tasks.</p><p id="7a2b">You’ll be very efficient through those tasks so that you can lazily enjoy the movie.</p><h2 id="305c">Netflix and learn</h2><p id="ddbf">The best lazy & efficient combinations are where two worlds (fun & work) meet.</p><p id="37e1">Watch documentaries on Netflix or YouTube. Listen to an entertaining podcast on Spotify. Go through your emails while getting a foot massage. Commute and order groceries for a party.</p><p id="022b">Find ways to jazz up your activities. Be lazy while being productive.</p><h1 id="8a9f">Final Thoughts</h1><p id="1141">There’s nothing wrong with being lazy if you are not piling up work. Find alternative ways to get those things done.</p><p id="90f6">While doing that, you’d also become better at problem-solving and creativity. Start today to be more efficient and take advantage of all these benefits.</p></article></body>

5 Genius Ways of Being Lazy Yet Productive

Laziness and efficiency go hand in hand.

In 1947, American automobile executive Clarence Bleicher gave a tip about laziness.

“When I have a tough job in the plant and can’t find an easy way to do it, I have a lazy man put on it. He’ll find an easy way to do it in 10 days. Then we adopt that method.”

Laziness is the mother of efficiency. You create repeatable systems so that you don’t need to put in as much effort (You use cars instead of walking as that’s faster and more comfortable).

Associate Professor Todd McElroy from Greensboro College in the United States studied laziness from the point of view of psychology and decision science. In 2016 he studied the relationship between energy consumption, physical activity, and the “need for cognition” (aka ‘laziness’). He said,

“What we perceive as laziness may be people using their energy to think and innovate.”

Let’s get this straight. Laziness is not the process of postponing or not doing activities. It’s about making them automated or outsourcing them or creating an efficient system. If you are using the first definition, you can change that.

5 Genius Ways of Being Lazy & Efficient

Record everything!

Record everything digitally.

Your plans, activities, results, and thoughts should all be recorded digitally. By doing that, you are removing the burden of remembering things. You are also listing down processes that worked for you. You can easily replicate that in the future. Why should you exercise for 2 hours if running for 40 minutes have a similar effect on your weight loss?

All of those will also be stored in one place, making it easy for you to find them.

In today’s world, it’s super easy to do that. Use a Fitbit for tracking your physical activities. Open up a Google Drive to store pictures and results. Create Google Forms to track your progress and feed that data to your existing Google Sheets. Set up IFTTT (IF this THEN that) account to automate digital activities.

Go Smart whenever possible

Invest in smart devices.

Set up smart lights, switches, thermostats, and other devices. You don’t need to turn off devices or turn them on when you leave the house.

You can even automate making your morning coffee so that you don’t have to spend extra minutes on that. Your air conditioner can turn on 5 minutes before you get home and make your home comfortable. Lights can turn themselves off at your bedtime. That robot vacuum can work round the clock to clean your house.

The opportunities are endless!

Club your tasks together

Many birds with one stone.

You may have a lot to do on a weekend. Group all the tasks together. Go to a place where you’d be able to do most of the required activities. You may need a haircut, do monthly shopping, watch a new movie, and send clothes for dry cleaning. Go to a shopping mall that hosts all these stores.

Keep the most rewarding task for the last

That way, you’re working towards something fun.

For your weekend task trip, you may have a lot to do. But also keep a fun activity like a massage or movie at the end of it. Purchase the movie ticket beforehand so that you also have a deadline for your other tasks.

You’ll be very efficient through those tasks so that you can lazily enjoy the movie.

Netflix and learn

The best lazy & efficient combinations are where two worlds (fun & work) meet.

Watch documentaries on Netflix or YouTube. Listen to an entertaining podcast on Spotify. Go through your emails while getting a foot massage. Commute and order groceries for a party.

Find ways to jazz up your activities. Be lazy while being productive.

Final Thoughts

There’s nothing wrong with being lazy if you are not piling up work. Find alternative ways to get those things done.

While doing that, you’d also become better at problem-solving and creativity. Start today to be more efficient and take advantage of all these benefits.