Laziness can lead to low self-esteem and depression

What a great fight that many of us have to face against laziness. That desire to leave for tomorrow (or the day after) what we have to do today (a phenomenon known as procrastination). Y what envy they provoke in me, I confess, those who are capable of not fainting, of keeping a firm course towards their goal.

I just assumed that at least two deadly sins dominate me, but in reality hardly anyone escapes. At all ages and at all times of our life there is laziness, crouching and lurking ready to dominate us.

Laziness, laziness, laziness, laziness... many synonyms for the same state of mind

It does not matter if what we occupy is writing, working, dieting, give up smoking, study for a test or go to the gym, it doesn't matter, laziness will hang on our back at any time to try to get us to abandon our "work".

Its objective is none other than to push us towards pleasure at all times; an immediate pleasure that evades us from duty, that temporarily saves us from what we do not feel like doing. It is about the binomial inaction versus movement, entropy versus expansion.

Why should we free ourselves from laziness

Overcoming laziness produces internal satisfaction, raise self-esteem; while letting ourselves be carried away by it lowers it and it can end up depressing us. How does this happen? now you will understand.

Let's say my goal is to lose weight. In this situation laziness will appear as a constant invitation to give me a moment of pleasureFor example, opening a package of potato chips to temporarily escape the sufferings that dietary discipline forces me to do.

After the moment of enjoyment, once the first potatoes have passed beyond the palate, the little voice (or the loud voice) of my Inner parent, He who scolds us from the inside by making us feel guilty, will turn his fury against me as a punishment: “You are unable to maintain a minimum of discipline! You will never lose weight! No one is going to love you like this! You will be a seal for your whole life! ", etc.

The string of niceties that we are capable of saying internally should be punishable by law.

Abandoning ourselves to immediate pleasure lowers our self-esteem

The abandonment of duty for immediate pleasure automatically brings with it internal reproach. We become critical of ourselves, cruel and ruthless on many occasions, until they hate us. And if it was not enough we activate the comparison with others, who from the psychological bias that supposes not being in the head of the other, we judge them as better than us, as more capable.

In this way, the negative effect of laziness and the consequent self-reproach is none other than to affect our self-esteem: the level of value and love that we feel towards our own person. Laziness makes me love myself less, lowers my regard for myself.

And the less I confront her, the more power she has over me. It is like a snowball down a hill, its strength increasing as it progresses. In this case, the ball is made up of laziness, self-reproach and low self-esteem that as they gain strength within us they depress our mood.

A reflection to face laziness and overcome it

In the background, It's all about attitudeThat is why there are some determined to confront it with determination and there are some (I include myself there) who sometimes win and many others lose. And in this matter of life there is only a recipe but to fight.

Overcoming laziness, doing what we know we have to do increases our self-esteem, brightens our spirits and keeps us from depression. For it you just have to change the chip and assume the suffering that comes with going after our goal by throwing a pair of noses at it. I insist, it is only a matter of attitude and habit. Choose to avoid or face. Perhaps now, that you know that the matter also involves your self-esteem and your mental health, think better of it before letting yourself be drawn into immediate pleasure.