I've recently decided that people who are labeled as "efficient" are really nothing more than lazy folks who have figured out ways to make their work easier in the long run. In order to accurately describe this behavior, I've coined the term "applied laziness," which implies something slightly more taxing than your run-of-the-mill laziness. Applied laziness simply means that you apply yourself in the short run for the long run benefits of being able to be lazy. Putting in extra work today (and choosing to be non-lazy) in order to create a more efficient work process allows the individual to produce the same output with less effort tomorrow. History is full of so-called innovators that have really just made their fortunes off being lazy!
Here's a practical application of applied laziness: this past weekend, I was feeling rather industrious, and so I decided to write almost a dozen blog posts. However, I didn't want to overwhelm my readers with posts, so I decided to schedule them instead. (BTW, I just discovered how to do this...what a fantastic idea!) Now I look like I'm busy writing all week, when in reality, all my posts have been written for days and are collecting cyberdust just waiting to be published.
(Oh, FYI this post was written Sunday.)
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Wait...you can SCHEDULE blog posts?! How do you do that?!?!?!!!!!!!11
I know. Cool, huh? It's easy. When writing your post, simply click on "Post Options." It's somewhere underneath the text box. Then you can choose a posting time. The default is whatever time you started writing the post. But if you manually change the posting time to sometime in the future, it automatically posts for you whenever you set it.
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