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  Free From Broke

  1 year ago

  Here is something I need more work on. Every now and then I get caught in a rut where I'm less productive than I should be. TV is such a devious little drug! I'm working on it though.
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  Hunter Nuttall

  1 year ago

  Family Matters? Wow, someone would have to be really lazy to watch that. TV is a very powerful magnet for sucking people into laziness, but we need to establish more productive habits unless we want to be poor.
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  bubelah

  1 year ago

  What about reading fiction books and browsing internet? Is it among TV viewing and considered being lazy?
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  Laura

  1 year ago

  I'm not lazy by nature, but I can be lazy when it comes to redeeming my rebates. It's throwing away money. Thanks for the post.
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  moneymonk

  1 year ago

  Good post
  
  As the bible says- nothing comes to a lazy man
  
  I lazy in the way of I do not like psysical work, I like to use my mind. I work smart most of the time, not hard
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  Early Retirement Extreme

  1 year ago

  Nice post. One thing that "lazy" programmers (like Lazy Man) are generally not lazy with is optimization and efficiency. Good programmers spend a lot of time thinking about how to be more efficient at what they do. I recently saw this in action where a colleague spent 15 minutes trying to extract some data from a file by writing a program in a familiar language. If he had known awk, perl, or a similar language, he could have done the job in 30 seconds. Of course what often happens at high efficiency is that the amount of available work does not expand proportionally. Thus a lot of time will be spent simply waiting for work to come in the door. This is particularly bad in jobs where you're only supposed to do one thing. Being underutilized is almost as stressful as being overutilized.
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  deepali

  1 year ago

  Ha. #2 on my list of management rules (handed down from higher up) is "Be lazy - it makes it easier to delegate". :)
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  Mrs. Micah

  1 year ago

  I suppose it depends on what you're lazy about (spending, for example isn't always a bad place to be lazy...unless it's for an oil change).
  
  I like your point that lots of lazy things can make you poor, but being poor doesn't mean you were lazy. It's such an important distinction that few people see.
  
  How are those Buffy reruns coming? ;)
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  fathersez

  1 year ago

  A lazy man is a poor man....well said.
  
  I go into a state of rest, just like Newton has said in his Law, unless some energy is applied to get me off. This energy is created by my list of things to do.
  
  Reading the blogs have also made my mind much more active in seeking better things, be it spending less or making more.
  
  Thanks for highlighting the impact of Newton's Law on our well being.
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  Steve (Brip Blap)

  1 year ago

  @ERE: Great line: "Being underutilized is almost as stressful as being overutilized." I know that feeling - I feel terribly underutilized daily in my consulting role, and it's terribly, terribly stressful - in a sense even worse than when I was working as a corporate employee. I guess the only redeeming point is that my days are shorter!
  
  @Bubelah: Yep. When I'm just idly reading junk about the presidential campaign, or playing miniclips, the internet is definitely being lazy - I'm turning my brain off. It's my TV, in a sense. Reading fiction, I don't know - in a sense, if I want to develop as a writer I think there's some value in reading good writing. Some of the stuff I read is helpful - "The Red and the Black" by Stendahl was amazing and gave me a LOT to think about in my own writing, for example.
  
  @Mrs. Micah: Speaking of LAZY, I have not yet dragged out the Buffy tapes but they are sitting there in my storage room calling - "watch me, watch me." Buffy was the single biggest time waster of my recent adult life - I was hooked on that show. I left work early to make sure I didn't miss it. I have a problem....
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  Brooke (Dollar Frugal)

  1 year ago

  I used to be lazy and it got me nowhere. Now I just choose to make my laziness here in PF blogs, where I can veg out and learn something too! I don't leave space in my schedule to be lazy, and it works out for me.
  
  It's funny, there's a guy at work that's obsessed with Buffy, too. You guys should talk. He watched Buffy for 14 hours on a flight to Japan....argh.
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  Steve (Brip Blap)

  1 year ago

  @Brooke: I actually don't think time spent reading PF blogs is "lazy time"! You're learning something, most of the time, and I would say anytime you're learning something you're not being lazy.
  
  14 hours might be a bit much for me. Might. Oh, OK, I could do it too. I'm not proud of it... but it combined vampires and kung fu. It was perfect!!
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  Living Off Dividends

  1 year ago

  while I agree with you, somewhere along the way I got confused!!! :-D
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  Lazy Man

  1 year ago

  I think one of your goals should be to get back to watching Buffy. It's by far my favorite show of all time. If anyone gives you any guff, simply say that you are watching it to improve your writing. Few stories have been written as well.
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  Pinyo

  1 year ago

  "All lazy people are poor. Not all poor people are lazy" -- good clarification there.
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  Steve (Brip Blap)

  1 year ago

  @LOD: What? Where? Huh?
  
  @Lazy Man: To get back to watching it, all I have to do is load a VHS tape (yes, I own Buffy on VHS). I couldn't agree more.
  
  @Pinyo: Thanks. It's an important distinction not to insult anyone...
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  onomake philip

  1 year ago

  am a young guy of 25,how can i avoid poverty in the nearest future.what are the things that makes a man to be poor financially?
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  Chris

  3 months ago

  Ugh... 100% true.
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