Overcoming Laziness, by Dr. Donald DeMarco

The celebrated novelist Somerset Maugham said there were two keys to his success as a writer:  getting up in the morning and going to bed at night.  By virtue of this strategy he defeated laziness twice, by overcoming laziness in the morning and retiring at the proper time so that he would be ready to rise the next day.

We are all saddled with chronic laziness.  E dolce far niente (it is sweet to do nothing), say the Italians.  The Spanish go one step further and say, “It is sweet to do nothing and then rest afterwards.”  We are all, at one time or another, deserving of the epithet, “lazy-bones.”  And a “lazy good-for-nothing” is a virtual condemnation. …

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