Are you smart, or downright lazy? This is a question I often ask myself when I refuse to accept new time-consuming challenges – something I do more often as I grow older.
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I mean, I was extremely diligent throughout my life, always willing to juggle more balls in the air, or, as we say in Afrikaans, ‘adding irons in the fire.’ I could work circles around others. Although sometimes accused of neglecting my most important priorities, I knew I had them all under my thumb.
Nowadays, after my morning work as bookkeeper and finance officer, I come home with the intention of doing as little as possible. During my afternoons I enjoy the company of my best friend, nice naps, and the constant coming and going of my grandchildren as they rehearse their music lessons in my lounge. I have reduced my evening work (writing projects) from heavy-duty to light-duty, and added the time saved to reading, which I can do while lying on my bed.
For those who don’t know, severe pain in my buttocks and hamstrings due to osteoarthritis of the hips and greater trochanteric pain syndrome (GTPS), compels me to limit the time I spend sitting on a chair, and to alternate sitting as well as lying with brisk walks on my treadmill. The pain is worse while I am sitting - as if I am sitting with a severely bruised bum and legs on unequal stones. Absolutely unbearable!
Nowadays, after my morning work as bookkeeper and finance officer, I come home with the intention of doing as little as possible. During my afternoons I enjoy the company of my best friend, nice naps, and the constant coming and going of my grandchildren as they rehearse their music lessons in my lounge. I have reduced my evening work (writing projects) from heavy-duty to light-duty, and added the time saved to reading, which I can do while lying on my bed.
For those who don’t know, severe pain in my buttocks and hamstrings due to osteoarthritis of the hips and greater trochanteric pain syndrome (GTPS), compels me to limit the time I spend sitting on a chair, and to alternate sitting as well as lying with brisk walks on my treadmill. The pain is worse while I am sitting - as if I am sitting with a severely bruised bum and legs on unequal stones. Absolutely unbearable!
The new challenge
When the most recent challenge presented itself – to do some graphic designing for a printing business - I again found myself in the position where a choice between money and leisure had to be taken.
I contemplated the energy, time, and efforts I put into challenges. For example: My evening job as a writer of web content. In spite of the fact that I have scaled down, it is still hard and time-consuming work. Writing content worthy of reading, publishing them, replying to the comments I receive, reading the work of my followers, and leaving them the comments they deserve, and even replying to emails from strangers in need of more information and/or encouragement...
All of this is hard-hard work!
And that flat on my hurting bum and hamstrings!
Graphic designing, too, requires a chair and a person sitting on it.
Am I lazy, or smart? I ask myself once again while considering this new profitable challenge.
I contemplated the energy, time, and efforts I put into challenges. For example: My evening job as a writer of web content. In spite of the fact that I have scaled down, it is still hard and time-consuming work. Writing content worthy of reading, publishing them, replying to the comments I receive, reading the work of my followers, and leaving them the comments they deserve, and even replying to emails from strangers in need of more information and/or encouragement...
All of this is hard-hard work!
And that flat on my hurting bum and hamstrings!
Graphic designing, too, requires a chair and a person sitting on it.
Am I lazy, or smart? I ask myself once again while considering this new profitable challenge.
Being lazy
My dictionary defines laziness as:
1. Being disinclined to work or exertion;
2. Inactivity resulting from a dislike of work;
3. Relaxed and easy activity;
4. Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue.
1. Being disinclined to work or exertion;
2. Inactivity resulting from a dislike of work;
3. Relaxed and easy activity;
4. Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue.
Being smart
Being smart is defined as ‘demonstrating intelligence, wisdom, cleverness or ingeniousness.'
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