One tiny thing stands between me and greatness – the effort of opening my laptop

 
It’s quite incredible how lazy I’ve become. 

Bit harsh on myself? Perhaps. But I bet you’re as lazy as me, so I’m being harsh on us all. 

Does the thought of doing ‘life admin’ fill you with sheer dread? Not because it’s going to drain your money with various boring things you will never actually enjoy – but because it requires using a laptop (perhaps you’ve got all your insurance passwords stored on it or something). 

And for some reason, the thought of actually getting the laptop, opening it (oh, the struggle of lifting its increasingly heavy lid – like a drawbridge into tedium) and waiting a few seconds for it to fire up – is frankly just a few seconds too many. 

It’s a massive chore. I’m used to happy-happy-swipey-swipey-swipesville joy on my phone. Immediate gratification with zero effort from me. I’ll happily take my beloved phone out of my pocket a zillion times while I wait for the microwave to ping. 

But this small thing – not doing my life admin because I have to get out my laptop – is turning into a big thing. A really big thing. 

I’m going to zoom into this, and look at other things I don’t do because of the tiny effort required. 

Oh, it’s such an effort to take the yoga mat out of the cupboard…so I can’t do any yoga. Sorry, body, it’s just one step too far. 

Oh, it takes so long to scroll through YouTube to find Joe Wicks’ latest workout…so I can’t do that. 

Oh, it takes so long to have a shower that I haven’t got time to go running at lunchtime (even though we’re all now working from home). 

These small tiny tediums are stopping us from achieving greatness. Yes, actual greatness my friends. 

And while pontificating about this, I realised that this new knowledge could actually work in my favour, in our favour, for the good of the world…yes…the world! 

If I was to create one tiny boring micro step between me and my bad habits then perhaps I’m so lazy that I could resist the naughty things too that I shouldn’t be doing. 

For example, if there’s chocolate in the fridge I will eat it. But, wait for it…if I had to go to the car to get the chocolate (a tiny step) I’m pretty sure I’m too lazy to do that so I would reduce my substantial chocolate consumption. 

And, what if I had to go out to the garage to get the button presser/remote/whatever-it’s-called before rummaging round Netflix? I’m pretty certain I’d probably read a book because it just happens to be there and doesn’t involve the actual effort of putting my shoes on and heading into the cold dark to retrieve the zapper.  

So tonight things are a changing…for the greater good. The greater me! 

The chocolate is in the car, the button-presser is in the garage and I am ready to embark on my journey into greatness.