Thoughts over coffee: Part four

Coffee and I are old friends (coffee is older than me of course) and I do a lot of thinking over coffee. With this in mind I decided to start a little concept called thoughts over coffee which I'll be doing from time to time.

I don't like laziness or reward it and while I don't have anything against down-time, relaxation, doing nothing and such other legitimate activities being lazy grinds my gears. There's many different forms of laziness including below.

Laziness - Oh, you're too tired?

I get tired, we all do, and it's totally fine when it happens. When I'm tired I try to find some sleep, but if I cannot I don't make it an excuse not to do something that needs doing or to not give my full effort - That's laziness.

There's situations that require our best effort and some of those are very important. Should a mother fail to care for her baby because she's tired? Should a doctor walk away from an emergency case during their hospital shift because of tiredness? I'm sure it happens, but that doesn't make it right.

It comes down to finding the right motivation - the mind is capable of pushing the body to great feats of endurance - and I often find that through achieving something small and low-effort the mind can be re-energised, kick-started so to speak, and that is often enough to set the wheels back in motion allowing a person to break through their tiredness and get things done.

I'm not judging, but I think far too many people blame their inaction on tiredness or other such excuses when in fact it's just laziness.

What do you reckon? If you want to comment below then go ahead, I'm interested in your thoughts and experiences.