I grew up in a country where if you where lasy, you would have a difficult future. In Colombia, there is a word called: El Rebusque. El rebusque means in a few words: Trying to make a living. Now this may sound easy if you live in Norway, Canada or Australia (like me), but in Colombia, achieving to make a living is quite a difficult task.

That’s why one of my new mottos is to take advantage of others people laziness. Only when you really embrace how lazy people is by nature you will be able to understand and see clearly how many times life’s give you the opportunity to succeed .

Sometimes It seems that our laziness is based on the typical mistake of over-thinking . We love to over think, we can spend days, months and years planning and considering all the options of a potential project. Then time goes by and we do nothing. I recently understood this when I was reading business as Unusual from Anita Roddick , the founder of the Body Shop. In her Book, Anita defines that speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.

When is the last time that you say a fast, agile and responsive lazy person?

Never.

So my invitation today is for you to embrace others people laziness for a change of taking first place. To be the leader in your niche, to be the faster formula one driver in your Grand Prix. Because only when we react, only when we work towards “achieving to make a living”, we realize that fighting against laziness brings creativity, satisfaction and a productive energy. In the last months I have found that this productive energy is what is worth to live for.

I think at the end of the day I have to agree with the following quote.

“ The average man doesn’t wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn’t even wish to have to think.”