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The virtues of laziness

26/5/2015

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Many busy professionals and business people are fueled by adrenaline as they push ahead and drive through their high-pressured lives. They have to get things done.

The problem: All too many of these busy people are exhausted, don't feel well, are emotionally worn out and, yes, stressed.  Could bird watching be the solution?

It is antithetical to my nature to be physically inactive or to stay indoors all day. But this weekend up North the black flies were out, I had a sore hip requiring alternating ice and heat, and I was feeling blue, knowing my eldest is moving next month to the West Coast. I'm still getting used to my youngest living on the East Coast.


Embrace your unexplored lazy side
Birdwatching is especially effortless when sitting indoors on a comfy chair or couch, staring out of a window that looks onto trees and birdfeeders 20 feet above the ground. No walking, no bugs, no binoculars. And, if you aren't in want of companionship, indoor birding offers great solitude. Really, an ideal solitary "sport.”

Using a field guide packed with information about birds, I had hours of amusement reading about and watching American Goldfinches, Blue Jays, Cardinals and Purple Finches dart on and off their perches. 

Back in the city, we've had little success attracting birds to our backyard birdfeeders. There are just too many squirrels and when I find them hanging upside down from the feeders, stuffing their faces, I get worked up and angry. I stopped filling the feeders with birdseed, knowing it was destined to be squirrelfeed.

When your work or home life is draining your energy and you feel stressed and irritated – and if you also have physical complaints such as headaches, tightness in your chest, or generalized aches and pains – consider being lazy for a few days.  Or at least a few hours.

Being lazy has just energized me.


It might even give you a competitive edge.   

Laziness works (in small doses),
Coach Minda


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8 Comments
Monica
26/5/2015 04:45:36 am

Laziness has such negative connotations...could this also be the virtues of balance, peacefulness, serenity and/or simply being in the moment?

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28/5/2015 02:03:50 am

You are right - lazy often means- inactive, slothful and without desire to work. But, the virtues you mention, of balance and peacefulness are not the same to me, but can very much look like "lazy" to an outsider and more importantly, to the insider. In this sense, embracing one's laziness is a very good thing. Thanks Monica!

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Judy Cherniak
26/5/2015 05:38:20 am

I think being "lazy" can actually be a time for observation, reflection and self care. I've always thought that too many of us are terrified to stop, have absolutely unscheduled time with no mandatory activities, fun as they might be. We need to know how to just be, and we need to allow our kids the same time off!

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28/5/2015 04:08:53 am

What you are describing is the best kind of lazy. I crave this more and more. And, do it more. I do have the habit of thinking I'm being lazy sometimes, though I'm not at all a lazy person. It is the negative connotation Monica refers to above. Stopping is easier of course when we don't have young children to take care of - there is a more progressive slowing down.Thanks Judy

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