How long have you been in your lazy girl era? A year? Two years? A decade even? But now you’re so done with it. Now you know it is time for a shift. You can feel it.
Now you want to exit your lazy girl era and enter your thriving girl era, an era of your biggest personal growth, the best level of productivity and the highest well-being.
It is about time to exit your lazy girl era and start working on your goals, because yes! you can make it if you only decide.
It’s about time to enter your Productive girl era, your mindful girl era, your confident girl era, your classy girl era, your relaxed girl era, you name it.
One of my friends says this is her soft-girl era. My other friend says this is her sexy girl era.
What Era do you want to enter this year?
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For me, it is the peaceful girl era, where I do everything with ease, peace and lightness and find meaning in the things that I do.
You can be anything you want to be.
But first, you have to exit the lazy girl era that has been holding you back for so long.
Yes, sometimes I do get lazy too.
And you need lazy days too, where you relax and allow yourself to just be.
But it should not be an era, something that you describe your whole self and your whole life to be.
I have long quit my lazy girl era and in the journey to become my truest self.
Quitting it is what has allowed me to start this blog, write at least 1000 words every single day (which is my goal for this year that’s getting done), read a few pages every morning, write in my journal, work out every day and work on my goals to live a meaningful day each day.
so today I want to give you some tips on how you can finally exit your lazy girl era.
How to exit your Lazy Girl Era
It’s not a secret magic and just reading won’t do. You need to implement it. Start today. Start right after reading it. And you will find your momentum.
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1. Quit saying you’re lazy
First of all, quit saying you’re lazy.
For how long have you procrastinated on something or given up what you started because you said you were too lazy?
I see many don’t even start to make a change because they believe they are too lazy and wouldn’t stick with it anyway.
I want to tell you that we’re all lazy.
If I leave myself astray and put no rules and routine in my life, I can go lazy in an instant.
If I use my phone early morning and do not keep my phone far from me, I will be lazy too and will end up just scrolling over and over.
Yes, there have been days like that.
So what we need to do for this, is to just small little tweaks in our everyday habits that can stop us from going and being lazy.
You’re not lazy. Your Habits are lazy. Quit those habits and you quit being lazy.
And the first thing you need to quit is to stop saying and believing you’re lazy.
You can start saying these positive affirmations for success instead.
If at all, say, you WERE lazy in the past, but this is present and the present is new and fresh and in the present, you can be whoever you choose to be.
2. Make small changes
To quit your lazy habits, just simply start making small changes.
Change means growth.
When we don’t make changes we stop growing and we feel we are in a stuck situation.
We feel we are doomed with laziness and doomed in our stuck situation forever.
But to feel that you are growing, all you need to do is make small changes.
If you always use your phone in the morning, make a small change of not using your phone in the morning.
If you never make your bed in the morning, then start making your bed
If you’re in the habit of throwing away your clothes after you change them, then make a small shift to fold it from now onwards in mindfulness
If you’re in the habit of complaining every time you step out of the house for work, then make a small change to not complain today and instead be grateful.
Growth starts with small changes and it is the small changes that bring momentum in our lives.
So make small changes starting today.
Decide what small habit you want to give up and then replace it with a good change.
You will feel so accomplished and it will propel you to make further changes and quit being lazy.
Here are the Micro Habits that improved my life
3. Write down your goals and plans
Our brains like to be told exactly what to do.
It hates making wise decisions now and then. It can’t make the right choices on the go.
We need to support our brains to quit our lazy habits.
One way to do this is by writing down your goals.
Whatever you want to accomplish in your life or in your day, you need to write that down.
When we write down our goals, it forces us to think clearly about what we want to do in life and how we want to spend our time and give focus to it.
Whatever you write down and whatever you track, you are more than likely to get it done and accomplished.
When I write down what workouts I want to do in the week, I can work out.
When I write down how many books I want to read in a month, I can read.
When I write down that my one goal for today is to write 1000 words minimum, I can write it.
I don’t know how, but our brain likes it that way when we are clear on what we want to do.
For this, I set my monthly goals at the start of the month and weekly goals at the beginning of each week.
Planning my week helps me immensely. I know exactly what I want to get done each day and helps me track my days. It’s the sole reason how I get anything done.
Here is a free weekly planner I made to set down my weekly goals. You can just print 4 of them to last you for a month.
P.S How to set weekly goals and crush it
4. Create a routine
If you say you’re lazy but you haven’t made a routine to follow yet and your days and time are going unstructured and without any direction, then that’s the reason you fell into laziness.
To exit your lazy girl era, simply make a simple routine to follow and structure your days and times.
Create a routine for yourself today.
Ask yourself- how do I spend my days and time?
If broadly, the way you lived this week of your life was how you were going to live every week of your life, would you consider that life well lived?
For a few days after you make a routine, it will obviously not be perfect and you will fail many times.
When you fail, observe yourself and track your time.
Look at what you are doing. Observe what habits you fall into easily in what hours.
For example, notice what you most likely do after you come back from work and track those hours.
Then slowly start making the change.
An easy way to set a routine is to divide your day into three structures- morning before work, during work and after work.
Then give time blocks to what you want to do in these three slots.
- P.S. Here is how to create a simple daily routine that sticks.
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5. Do your most important thing before noon
If you get your most important thing done before noon then it won’t matter even if you get lazy the other parts of your day.
You can then relax, you can read a book, you can watch a series, take a course or anything after you get your MIT (most important task) done.
Get into the habit of getting your most important thing done early in the morning before noon and you will be ahead of 90% of the people.
This is how successful people get things done. They tackle it before any other distraction and commitment comes in. They tackle it early in the morning before your mind gets to distract you.
They eat the frog in the morning and it doesn’t matter whether they’re lazy the rest of the day. They have already accomplished their mission for the day.
P.S Beating resistance with tiny wins approach
6. Workout to kick off lazy feelings
You shouldn’t wait for yourself to stop being lazy and then to work out.
You should work out to stop being lazy.
I no longer wait for motivation to work out. I work out to gain motivation instead.
Workout in the morning and get your most important task done for the done and you’re set with your day.
If you want to stick to your workout routine, simply focus on movement rather than gaining weight or losing weight.
Allow yourself to first get into the habit of exercising. Start with simple stretches and exercises for 20 minutes.
This won’t require an extraordinary amount of determination and effort. You just need to wake up and make the most of your mornings.
7. Level up your style
If you have been lazy to take care of how you look and how you dress, it’s time to quit being lazy about it and take care of yourself physically too.
How we dress and how we look affects our mood and how we do things.
If you’re feeling too lazy, just get up, take a bath, freshen up, comb your hair, tie your hair in a ponytail, feed tidy and get things done!
Dress well even when you’re at home.
Put effort into your clothes when you go to work.
It boosts our confidence and helps us get into the mood of getting things done.
8. Feed the mind with good stuff
Be mindful of what you are feeding your mind.
When you open YouTube, what are the kinds of videos that come up?
What kind of hooks does it have that make you want to click even though it is completely irrelevant to your growth?
Sometime last year I had gone majorly off track and I noticed it was mainly because social media and YouTube were distracting me greatly.
Every time I checked YouTube or social media, there would be something so catching and enticing that I would want to click and end up watching- like celebrity gossip, vlogs etc.
Then to tackle this I purposely sat down to change the algorithm of my feed.
I started watching what I wanted in my feed to come up so that if I got distracted watching something, it would be something that would help me grow and give me valuable knowledge.
I opened meditation videos and soothing music and played it just like that so that YouTube now gets my preference and so the old catchy useless videos stopped coming up on my feed.
I did this intentionally for just 1-2 days and slowly my algorithm got changed and my feed started coming up with the good stuff that is beneficial for me.
You can do the same too. This is how social media works.
Intentionally choose what you want to see and feed your mind with. Then they start showing you that.
Listen to good podcasts, read good books, read good blogs and they will constantly keep you motivated.
Don’t think that you already know what they would have to say.
Read, listen and feed the mind with good stuff every day. That’s how you’ll stay consistent and that’s how you’ll kick your lazy girl era.
9. Keep a clean surrounding.
How is your surroundings? How do you keep your room?
How is your desk?
Our surroundings impact our productivity and our mood much more than we realize.
If you want to stop being a lazy girl, get things de-cluttered. It will remove all the heaviness from your mind too and you will feel fresh and recharged to clean and start afresh.
Cleaning is healing and such a therapeutic exercise for me.
It is the reason why I enjoy cleaning so much and not dread it anymore.
Coming into my clean room, having my bed and desk tidy levels up my productivity and makes me more focused and less anxious and less overwhelmed.
P.S How to declutter: Best tips to start room by room
10. Just sit down
Doing the work is not the hard part. Writing is not the hard part. Reading is not the hard part. The hardest part is to sit down.
Get into the habit of just sitting down.
This is such a powerful habit that if we only cultivate this habit, we can achieve anything in life.
This is something I am practising these days. I just sit down before the voice of resistance comes and tries to beat me.
I think this is what Nike’s tagline is also about- just do it.
Before any resistance comes and tries to persuade you, just do it.
Just sit down. Just do it. Make it your new motto and you will exit your lazy girl era forever.
So this is how you exit your lazy girl era.
Don’t forget to celebrate little achievements and engage in self-care.
Take care of yourself. Be flexible. Celebrate little wins and keep thinking of how you can grow higher.
And keep trying again and again until you exit your lazy girl era for good and enter your era of highest good and well-being.
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