8 Reasons Why Being Lazy Will Lead You To Great Success

Your whole life you’ve been told things like “hard work is the only key to success,” or maybe even “you will never amount to anything if you don’t work hard for it.” While these statements are somewhat true, what if I told you that you could be very successful and still be lazy at the same time?

Being lazy doesn’t necessarily mean not having to do anything, it just means you find an easier way to do it so you don’t have to work as hard. Here are some of the ways that being a lazy person can help you to find great success.

1. You avoid busy work

There is nothing that I absolutely hate more in the workplace than busywork. Unimportant meetings that have no effect on your particular department, or meetings that achieve nothing aside from taking up your time. This is time that could be spent actually getting the job done so you can get the heck out of there.

Lazy people would rather take the task they are assigned and get it done, get it done quickly, and get it done right, so they don’t have to spend any more time on it than absolutely necessary.

2. You know how to delegate to cover more ground

Lazy people make really good leaders, and this point proves it. You put a lazy person in charge of a group of people for a project, they know how to delegate people to certain tasks based on their skills so the job can be done quickly and efficiently. It doesn’t make sense to have one person do everything or have everybody focus on one thing at a time — lazy people usually have a knack for making sure this does not happen.

3. You are clever, so you can be lazy

If you are lazy, you must be clever in order to be efficient. In the workplace, you can be two of four things: lazy or diligent, clever or stupid. If you are clever and lazy, you have a tendency to be the most efficient. This just means you can get more done while doing less work.

4. You always look for a quicker, more effective way of doing things

Bill Gates said that he would always hire a lazy person to do a difficult job at Microsoft, because they would always find an easier way to do it. Just because you are diligent and clever, doesn’t mean you are going to be more efficient. This just means you will get the job done — but you are probably going to do it without finding a better way, and you are going to take a lot of unnecessary steps to get it done.

5. You focus on only the bare necessities

When given a task to do, lazy people tend to only focus on what is needed, rather than all of the extra details to get the job done. I’m not saying that there is anything wrong with going the extra mile every once in a while, but sometimes it can be too much and it’s just a wasted effort. Lazy people have an ability to figure out when is a good time and when it is unnecessary to do a little extra.

6. You know how to procrastinate

Procrastination has always been seen as a bad thing, but if you are lazy and clever you know how to use procrastination to your advantage. Lazy people who procrastinate and wait until the last minute have no choice but to focus on the job and get it done in time. They know that there is no room for error or extras, so they get the job done quickly and done well in less time than a diligent worker.

7. You are lazy because you are efficient

Sometimes it may seem that people are just plain being lazy, constantly scrolling their Twitter feeds and reloading Facebook, while you are busy busting your butt. The reality of it is that they knew how to get their job done faster and easier and simply just have the time to sit around.

8. You know how to make money when they are sleeping

That is the ultimate dream, right?  Wake up and look at your bank account and have more money in it than you did when you fell asleep. Lazy people know how to utilize online tools and services that allow them to make money without having to work a lot. It will take some work to develop things that will sell, but then you can sit around and make money afterwards without having to sweat.

Its all about how you look at things. You don’t have to work your fingers to the bone day in and day out to be successful. It’s all about how you can get more done in less time and produce bigger results than before.

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