Every Person I've Ever Coached Is Lazy. So Am I.

Every single person I've ever trained with, coached, or worked alongside is lazy. So am I. I don't say that as an insult, I think it's simply part of being human. And honestly, it's driven some of the greatest inventions in history.
➜ Cars.
➜ Computers.
➜ Online shopping.
All born from our desire to do more with less effort.

Most of us don't like to see ourselves as lazy though, and that is because I think laziness is deeply context-dependent.

Quick thought experiment: are we lazy because we don't grow our own food? We could. But for most of us, farming isn't an efficient use of our time, so we don't call it lazy. Now take a farmer who refuses to plant in spring for no reason. That's lazy. But if that same farmer holds back on planting because the soil isn't ready yet? It's the same inaction - he doesn't plant, but the intention gives a completely different story.

So what actually makes something lazy?
➜ You can take action with intention.
➜ You can also choose inaction with intention.
Both are valid.

I think it comes down to this:

The absence of action isn't the absence of intention.

I've always been someone who lives with intention. But recently, that intention crossed a line. I was forcing too much. And it caught up with me. Push too hard for too long and things break. Now I'm dealing with some medical issues that are a direct result of it.

In reflecting on how I got here, this lazy debate keeps coming back to me.

I think a lot of people stumble into the right balance or action without even trying. They don't consciously choose rest, they just allow their natural tendency toward inaction to do its job. As they do it dials them back. Corrects the course. The ship rights itself without the captain lifting a finger.

When we force action all the time, even when the soil isn't ready, it costs you. Even when it's done with the best of intentions.

Our nature is there for a reason. There's real value in laziness, in the pull toward rest, toward ease, toward doing less.

Fight that nature at your own risk.