Horror movie villain quotes to end your laziness once and for all.
Your laziness is more seductive than Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.
The problem is that it’s just as lethal.
No matter how good it looks, it will kill everything you love.
Laziness can be seductive and charming and tempt you with dopamine shots as short-term rewards. But it will never get you anywhere.
That’s why you have to kill it before it kills your dreams.
And to do that, I want to give you some tips taken from the most famous horror movie villains. So that you can stop your laziness the next time she whispers in your ear that… “Just one more episode of Game of Thrones, and we’ll get to work/study.”
Let’s get started.
Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th
“His name was Jason… and today is his birthday.”
— Pamela Voorhees (mother of Jason).
Change the word Jason to the word laziness, and there’s your problem.
Today is his birthday. Today is the holiday of doing nothing. The problem is that unlike the villain in the movie Friday the Thirteenth, your laziness has a birthday every day.
Your laziness is just as lethal as Jason and his butcher’s machete: it ends up slaughtering your dreams and hopes with short-term rewards that take you away from your true purpose.
In addition to the above, your laziness and Jason have two more things in common.
- They are persistent as hell: Every day, your laziness strikes again. No matter how many times you have built your routine, you will always be lazy to start those tasks you hate.
- They wear a mask: Your laziness disguises itself, so you don’t see its deformed face, just like Jason. His mask is not a Hokey mask but Urgency because that’s how you confuse the urgent with the important and never get anywhere.
For persistence, there is nothing you can do. Just accept it and be more persistent than your laziness. Realizing that your laziness will always haunt you will make you more productive than any of Ali Abdaal’s productivity tricks.
Knowing that laziness is an enemy that paradoxically never tires keeps you awake and ready to face it daily.
For the mask issue, you have to detect your daily power moves; those two or three tasks make you progress faster.
Those are the important ones; everything else is your laziness with the mask of Urgency.
Unmask your Jason, and you will get out of the camp alive.
(any day, not just Friday the 13th 🙂
Freddy Krueger from a Nightmare on Elm Street
“In dreams… I am forever!” —Freddy Krueger.
Like Freddy Krueger, your laziness waits for you to lower the guard and fall asleep to tell you things like, “I’m your boyfriend now, Nancy.” And then chase after you to rip you in two with his hands full of blades.
And no matter how hard you try, sooner or later, you’ll get sleepy, and there will be your Freddy (your laziness) waiting to get everything you’ve accomplished.
It is the intermittency that destroys all that your persistence founded.
It is enough for your laziness that you rest on the laurels of your success for a short period of time to reduce your entire empire to ashes.
Remember the words of Freedy, “Every town has an Elm Street!”
Freddy teaches us that every goal you want to accomplish has its dangerous side. So don’t let your guard down; there will always be something you’re too lazy to do, and that’s just what you need to improve.
Don’t fall asleep.
Pennywise from It
“They all float down here. When you’re down here with us, you’ll float too!” — Pennywise.
The problem with the typical father quote, “if your friends jump off a bridge, will you jump off too?” is that the answer is yes.
Laziness spreads like the flu. And if you hang out with losers, guess what?
You’ll end up floating, too, while the clown laughs at you.
Don’t let Pennywise seduce you with his red balloons. It’s not worth it.
Red balloons symbolize partying, wasting money, getting drunk, going out for carbs, and wasting your weekend making bad decisions.
You are the average of the five people you are with the most. And as pennywise said, “You seem like a nice guy; I bet you have a lot of friends.”
So select the ones that keep you on the right track and stay away from the rest: the ones that lead you straight to the gutter chasing paper boats.
A virtual Hug
AG
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