I am by no means the most productive person, just ask my want to be 6 pack abs how often I work them out, but have you ever met or worked with an extremely lazy person? I'm not talking about those who hate work, gripe, moan, and complain all day long. I am not talking about people who find creative ways to get out of doing things, without them we wouldn't have half of the things we have. I am talking about the people who literally do absolutely nothing.
I have a co-worker like that right now. He is not the first person I have worked with that is extremely lazy, and won't be the last one I work with. I am just stuck wondering, how do you do it? How can you come to work and sit and do nothing for 9-10 hours a day? There is only so much one can do on the internet. At some point your brain or your body just wants to explode from not doing anything. I am a mechanic, we work on things. We climb over, under, and around pieces of equipment to make sure they are working properly, so to stand back and watch some one sit and do nothing, absolutely nothing all day is painful.
I have often wondered how people could be so lazy, and then I had kids. I realized that so many habits that my parents have, I have to. From the way I eat, meals I make, places I shop, shopping habits, money management, exercise, and the list goes on and on. All of those habits, I learned from my parents. I see it when I take my kids to the park and see over weight kids with over weight parents. Its what we see every day, its what we are familiar with, and what we know, so we follow suit. I am not blaming parents for every lazy person. Or every over weight person, or every smart person. But parents did have a little bit to do with it. However, at the end of the day, a person is responsible for themselves and they have to learn how to break the cycle, if they so choose. There are some things that every parent does great, that we want to keep and do for the rest of our lives, and there are other things that we ought to change.
What is sad to me is seeing people live in America, where there is so much, and so many opportunities and pass them up. Not because they aren't smart enough, or talented enough, but because they don't know how to break the habit. They don't know any different, and no matter what you tell them, or how hard you convince them, they don't want to change because they don't think they can, or that everyone else is out to get them or better then them.
Like I said to start this post, I am not the most productive, pro-active, get it done guy. I have lots of room to improve. Maybe, I just see others sit around for 9-10 hours a day and think I'm doing more than him, when in reality I should be asking, what more can I be doing? How much better can I be?
I have a co-worker like that right now. He is not the first person I have worked with that is extremely lazy, and won't be the last one I work with. I am just stuck wondering, how do you do it? How can you come to work and sit and do nothing for 9-10 hours a day? There is only so much one can do on the internet. At some point your brain or your body just wants to explode from not doing anything. I am a mechanic, we work on things. We climb over, under, and around pieces of equipment to make sure they are working properly, so to stand back and watch some one sit and do nothing, absolutely nothing all day is painful.
I have often wondered how people could be so lazy, and then I had kids. I realized that so many habits that my parents have, I have to. From the way I eat, meals I make, places I shop, shopping habits, money management, exercise, and the list goes on and on. All of those habits, I learned from my parents. I see it when I take my kids to the park and see over weight kids with over weight parents. Its what we see every day, its what we are familiar with, and what we know, so we follow suit. I am not blaming parents for every lazy person. Or every over weight person, or every smart person. But parents did have a little bit to do with it. However, at the end of the day, a person is responsible for themselves and they have to learn how to break the cycle, if they so choose. There are some things that every parent does great, that we want to keep and do for the rest of our lives, and there are other things that we ought to change.
What is sad to me is seeing people live in America, where there is so much, and so many opportunities and pass them up. Not because they aren't smart enough, or talented enough, but because they don't know how to break the habit. They don't know any different, and no matter what you tell them, or how hard you convince them, they don't want to change because they don't think they can, or that everyone else is out to get them or better then them.
Like I said to start this post, I am not the most productive, pro-active, get it done guy. I have lots of room to improve. Maybe, I just see others sit around for 9-10 hours a day and think I'm doing more than him, when in reality I should be asking, what more can I be doing? How much better can I be?
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