Battling Against Spiritual Laziness

December 9, 2016

This is a guest post from David El Sabawy - a student from Mississauga, Canada who has guest posted on my blog before. In today's post, David writes about the internal battle we all face in life: the one against procrastination and laziness.

The absolute worst feeling in the world is to be unmotivated to do a task that you know you should be doing.

How terrible is it to feel, that you need to do something, but lack any self-motivation to get yourself to work on it? The regret that can build up in you after-the-fact is devastating because you begin to understand that there was more that you could bring to the table.

Procrastination, sloth and slacking off; all terms synonymous with LAZINESS

Laziness, Busyness, and Rest

August 21, 2015

I'm the type of person who likes to be busy.

No. Let me say that again. I'm the type of person that NEEDS to be busy.

It's funny, actually. When I first started university, I hated how I never had time for myself. I wanted free time, and I didn't have it. This made me feel angry and stressed.

Then summer came along and I felt empty. I was restless, bored out of my mind. I had nothing productive to do. Sure, I could go out, shop, watch a movie, and more. But all these things...something was missing. I found that despite having a full day planned with outings and entertainment, I was lacking something.

And then it hit me: I wasn't being productive.

The Sluggard and the Rain

February 1, 2013

I have this tradition when I get home from work. And by tradition, I mean this crazy unexplainable thing that I do every day for no apparent reason. When I pull into my parking spot at home, I sit in my car for an uncertain amount of time, look in my backseat at the bags of things I have to carry, and dread the three flights of stairs I'm about to climb to my apartment.

Every day.

5 minutes. 10 minutes.

Sometimes 15.

I finally set my record for 50 minutes this one particular day. It was a sunny day, unusually warm for the season. I pulled into my spot, thought about the load I was about to carry, the work I was going to have to do once I made it up the stairs, the dog I would have to take right back down the stairs to do her business... It was looking pretty grim.

For 50 minutes I came up with at least 7 different plans to avoid the "suffering". As the 50th minute rolled around, the bottom fell out of the sky, and the rain began to pour. Now I was going to have to carry everything in the rain, take the dog out in the rain, and then, have the nerve to be mad at God about the rain.

Which begs the question... WHY DID I WAIT FOR THE RAIN???

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