Laziness is not what you think it is. You have been told that a lazy person is not willing to work hard. This is not entirely true!
King Solomon, shares a little secret concerning laziness when he said: “The hand of the diligent will rule, but the lazy will be put to forced labor”.
Read this saying again and consider: A person who rules tells other people what to do. A ruler speaks, and his or her bidding is done. He or she doesn’t have to lift a singer. On the other hand, according to Solomon, the lazy person is the one whose hands is put to hard labor. In other words, it is the lazy person who ends up doing all the hard work.
Therefore, just because someone is working hard does not mean they are not lazy. So, what does it mean to be lazy?
Definition of Laziness: A lazy person is someone who does not do what they need to do now, so that they end up doing what they do not want to do later. On the other hand, the diligent person does what they need to do now, so that they can do what they want to do later.
My question for you is this: what do you want to do tomorrow? What do you want your life to look like? The truth is that there is a timing component to life. Farmers know that if they do not plant a particular crop in a particular time frame, they will have to forfeit the harvest of that crop in that season. Financial advisers speak of a window of opportunity for workers to start saving a certain percentage of their income if the workers are to have the type of retirement they desire.
Why all this talk of laziness? It is because if you want to be wealthy, you cannot afford to be lazy, only working hard at a job that you know won’t take you to your vision of wealth and a rich life. I am not saying that you should quit your day job now. Heavens no! I know you have responsibilities that you cannot shirk off. What I am saying is that you must find a way to start doing something to build wealth now! You need to start doing something today that will move you away from working hard and making little progress, to a place where you can start ruling in life.
You cannot afford to be lazy in your mind. You must start thinking of what you need to do to build wealth. If you are working a 9 am – 5 pm job, then you need to start working on your vision and wealth building machine for a couple of hours after your job. This still gives you time to rest and spend time with family. If you want to build wealth, you cannot afford to be lazy about it. You cannot afford to continue putting it off in favor of working hard at a dead-end job or a career that you know won’t lead to the life you want to lead. You have a choice – you can use every mind trick in the book to make yourself stay where you are or use every mind trick to find a way to achieve your full potential.
I always thought lazy people do not work hard! But then I read this saying from King Solomon (arguably the wisest king that has ever lived): The hand of the diligent will rule, but the lazy man will be put to forced labor – Proverbs 12:24
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