In his latest letter to shareholders Jeff Bezos spoke about the essential DNA that drives the growth of Amazon. Key amongst them is the power of wandering. That was in my mind and led me to the wonder about the power of laziness with relation to work. The counter view to what we call laziness could be getting more done in a given timeframe, reducing low value work from your schedule or simply prioritizing life over work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Who better to look at for inspiration than Tim Ferriss<\/strong>, author of the The 4-Hour Workweek: <\/strong><\/a>. \u201cBeing perpetually busy is akin to being sloppy with your time and is ultimately a form of laziness<\/em>\u201d, said Tim in an interview to CNBC – \u201cIt\u2019s very easy to confuse activity with productivity,\u2026If you don\u2019t feel like you have time, you don\u2019t have priorities,<\/em>\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dan Martell<\/strong> hails the benefits of being lazy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeing lazy forces you to : 1. Be ruthless in abandoning low value-tasks, 2. Surround yourself with the support you need and 3. Carefully examine where and how you spend every minute in your business. In short, laziness is the precursor to leverage<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is checking your mail and putting efforts to \u201czero in mail box\u201d a worthwhile pursuit? That one you need to answer yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Matthew<\/strong> Ackerson<\/strong> wrote in Business Insider, The 7 benefits to being a lazy Entrepreneur :<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dana Brownlee<\/strong> wrote in a piece for The Entrepreneur Magazine – \u201cThe “lazy entrepreneur” philosophy is about getting the biggest bang for each hour so that you can work as little as possible.<\/em>\u201d Building processes and using technologies available to reduce your time inputs is key to getting more done with less time. Delegating is also key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dan Martell actually boils it down to a 3 step framework :<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the end you need to focus on productivity, tasks that generate revenue or output (like publishable pages if you are an author, for instance) and free up the rest of your time for being happy. So how lazy are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Links to the articles mentioned above. All great reads. Total time required will be less than 30 mins. Great use of your time, I can vouch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tim Ferriss – https:\/\/cnb.cx\/2AYcT8b<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dan Martell\u00a0–\u00a0https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/08\/25\/tim-ferriss-being-perpetually-busy-is-a-kind-of-laziness.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Matthew Ackerson –\u00a0https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/7-benefits-to-being-a-lazy-entrepreneur-2012-4?IR=T<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dana Brownlee – <\/a>https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/232370<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In his latest letter to shareholders Jeff Bezos spoke about the essential DNA that drives the growth of Amazon. Key amongst them is the power of wandering. That was in my mind and led me to the wonder about the power of laziness with relation to work. The counter view to what we call laziness could […]<\/p>\n<\/p>