8 Mental Tricks To Cure Your Laziness

Lukas Schwekendiek
2 min readNov 4, 2023
Photo by Johnson Wang on Unsplash
  1. The 5-second Rule — Do something for just 5 seconds. That is short enough of a time for you to feel like it is easy and free to do, but long enough that you at least start. Starting is often the hardest part, and once you have begun it will be easier to keep going.
  2. The 5-minute Rule — If you can do it in 5 minutes, do it as soon as you think about it. Drop everything else and just do whatever you…

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Lukas Schwekendiek

Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc & Huffington Post. Coaching available again! Email: Lukas.schwekendiek@gmail.com with the word "Coaching"