Laziness or lack of motivation?
I've always wondered, my mother have always said that I'm lazy, I've always told myself that I'm not lazy it's just your lack of motivation because of depression. But now I'm worried I'm using my lack of motivation as an excuse for being lazy. I can't tell if I'm being lazy or if I just lack motivation.
Can anyone tell me the clear difference? because I can't seem to tell anymore.
This is a very good question. I feel for me it is when I know something needs to be done, but I choose to do something else instead. This to me is laziness, because I am motivated to go do something else (like take a walk, chat on phone, go out with friends, do yard work).
When I am really depressed, I don't want to do anything. I look around and I can literally say...I don't care right now (go to bed, watch TV, play on my phone, take a nap).
To help myself pull out of that depressing spiral, I give myself 15 minutes to deal with the dirty dishes, messy bathroom, pickup the living room, tidy up my bedroom. I just pick a space and take 15 minutes that day. I tell myself...it is just 15 minutes of needed self-care. I know I will feel a bit better mood wise for doing it and it isn't about anyone else noticing....it is about how I feel. I don't try to go longer and clean a whole room etc. in one fell swoop, then it exhausts me and well if I am depressed I am already feeling exhausted and that misses the point. One small area, 15 minutes a day, to improve my environment. It's my gift to myself.
KEEP IT SIMPLE !!
Maybe Both !!!
@Bloom97 Can anyone tell me the clear difference? because I can't seem to tell anymore.
I will answer you...
Laziness => Create lack of motivation in any area by having negative thinking or being pesimistic or arguing to bring down the motivations..
So Basicly it is NOT DIFFERENT !!!
if you insist then: Laziness is the root of lack motivations & lack of motivation if the result of being lazy..
So if you have one of them, you will have the other it is the same pack you cannot only pick one and then not get the other..
YOU ARE BOTH LAZY AND LACK OF MOTIVATIONS!!
