All Progress is a Result of Laziness

Since quitting my job to run my online empire full time I’ve noticed that I’m spending way more time talking to other like minded online entrepreneurs.

When all of your friends are stuck “working” for a living you tend to make new friends who are also working from home.

One thing I’ve realized by talking to online entrepreneurs lately is just how lazy we all are. The funny thing is that it is our laziness that fuels us to succeed online.

We’re not just lazy, we’re also very honest with our laziness.  We don’t seek recognition for working hard, we seek recognition for achieving a result with the least amount of effort possible.  We don’t hide our laziness, we’re proud of it.

The way I see it, if mankind didn’t have a lazy gene we wouldn’t make any progress in life. The lazy man who got tired of rubbing two sticks together is the one who lead the way to developing things like matches and lighters.

When we became too lazy to light candle lanterns all the time, we invented the light bulb.  It’s the lazy man who got tired of walking everywhere that decided to learn to ride a horse and eventually to invent the car.

Our human laziness fuels progress, yet as a society we’re brought up to label laziness as a negative human trait.

After talking to dozens and dozens of people about Internet marketing I’m convinced that a large percentage of people don’t ever give this way of making money a fair try because they subconsciously are afraid of being labeled as “lazy”.

If a part of you wants to leave your job and work for yourself and make money from home as an Internet entrepreneur, but another part of you believes that you have to “work hard” to succeed in life then you’re going to have problems getting yourself to get ahead online.

For example, I wrote half of this Blog post on my iPhone, while sitting out in my front yard enjoying the sun on a Thursday afternoon at 2pm, while the rest of the world is at work.  I have zero feelings of guilt about being able to do this, while other people “have to” go to work.

Why?

Well, because I understand the difference between “smart-laziness” and “lazy-laziness”.  Focusing on learning how to make money online over the last three years or so, in order to put myself in the position I am today is “smart-laziness”.  It required me to work at a job, and then come home and to work on building a business while the rest of the world was watching the playoffs or partying.  I used my free time after work to learn how to make money more efficiently because I knew that would allow me to be more “lazy” in the future.

It’s the same thing as riding a bike instead of walking somewhere.  It’s not lazy, it’s more efficient.  I’m not talking about walking or jogging for exercise purposes, I’m talking about it strictly from the point of view of getting from A to point B.  A bicycle is more efficient than walking, a car is more efficient than a bicycle, an airplane is more efficient than a car, and using a webcam instead of having to travel somehwere is even more efficient than all of those.

See if you can identify the activities in your life that would be classified as “smart-lazy” vs “lazy-lazy”.  Then, congratulate and reward yourself for finding more “smart-lazy” ways of doing things in life instead of seeing them as just “being lazy”.  When you see someone who has found a clever way to accomplish something in a simple and easier way, take notice of it and label it as “being smart” in your mind so that you can condition your brain to seek out such things for yourself in life.

Such “laziness” is what I call “smart-laziness” and all progress in life is a results of it.

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