The Productive Muslim Podcast – Season 2 Ep 8

			You're listening to the productive Muslim podcast, season two, episode eight
		

			Assalamu alaikum productive Muslims. Welcome to the show. I'm your host, and I am here with day
eight of the pre Ramadan boot camp. So in this episode, we're gonna be speaking about designing your
new behaviors for laziness. And this sounds a bit like what am I talking about? How do you design
your behavior for laziness, but let me explain. So as you're making changes in your life right now,
to build the new spiritual, physical and social habits that we spoke about so far, there's a simple
tip that can help you achieve much more success in what you do. And it's called designed for
laziness. Assuming that you're a very lazy person, and is not motivated to change. What can you do
		

			to make your behavior change more easy, and not very hard? For example, say I want to stop having
desserts in my meal. So what can I do to make myself stop eating this, I mean, stop this behavior.
So one practical way is to simply not make any desserts or have anything sweet in the house or
pantry at home. And the reason this will work is because I'll be too lazy to go out and get dessert
after I finish my lunch or dinner. So pretty much what we do is that the thing that we want to
avoid, we want to make it as hard as possible to do so that we just become lazy to do it. So that
way, if it's not within our reach, then we'll be like, I don't want to do it anymore. And that's
		

			what I mean by designed for laziness. So here are some more examples. Say that you want to read more
Quran. But you feel lazy to read Quran early in the morning or late in the evening. So if you want
to design the reciting Quran for laziness, so one way you can do this is by reciting core and when
you're doing something idle, like you're just waiting for something, for example, when you're
waiting for the computer to turn on, or you're waiting for the laundry to finish, and you're just
watching the laundry spin. So during that time, you can also recycle and, and similar things like
that. I mean, these are just some ideas, but to think creatively. Another example that comes to
		

			mind, as I'm thinking about this is that when you're in the kitchen, and you're cooking, or you're
cleaning, then you have the core and playing in the background. So that can also be another thing as
well.
		

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			So another example to help you understand the design for laziness is that say that you want to sleep
early. But the problem is that you watch too much TV or YouTube or something. So what if I set a
timer on my TV to automatically turn off at a certain time. And I make it very hard to switch it
back on say by adding a complicated password or something like that. Another similar example can be
that you want to sleep early. But the problem is that you tend to kind of like browse around on
social media until it gets really late. And that happens when you have your phone next to you. So
maybe it can be that you say okay, I will allow myself to surf social media for some minutes and
		

			have a timer. And then once that timer goes off, you log out. And now the reason I say log out is
because you're going to make your password like super complicated that it's like, in order to get
that password, you have to go, you know, retrieve some file somewhere far away, or maybe you wrote
it down somewhere. So it's like really hard to go and find that password and then put it inside your
social media so that you can log in, it just makes it so much more harder. So that's an example with
social media. And then another example for say, for example, you want to call your parents more
often, what if I add them on speed dial and call them as I start my morning commute or evening
		

			commute or lunch break. So kind of like pairing it up with something else. So that you know that
when this happens, I will also call my parents as well. So that's another idea on how to design for
laziness. So I mean, just going along these lines, if you can think more about First of all, what is
it you want to implement in your life and then kind of attaching that on to something else you're
doing currently all making it hard for you to not do that, if that makes sense. So the benefit to
this approach is that when you design your new habits, assuming that you're a lazy person
		

			are not motivated to get things done, then you won't have very high expectations and get
disappointed rather you, you make things practical and easy for yourself so that it's more doable to
get these things done, so that eventually it just becomes second nature. Okay, so now that this
episode is near ending, I want to put forward the question to you. Share with me some examples of
how you can design new habits assuming that you're a lazy person, let me know by heading over to the
comments of this episode, which is specifically productive Muslim podcast.com slash s two e eight.
And that stands for season two, episode eight so productive Watson podcast.com slash s to E eight.
		

			So let me know about other examples in which you can design new habits assuming that you're a lazy
person. And the good thing about sharing it is that you can also give others some ideas on how they
can be able to implement that in their life as well. So I look forward to reading those comments.
And finally, I want to ask you, did you do your three challenges today? So did you do that social
challenge that physical challenge and that spiritual challenge if you have or if you have not please
let me know also in the comments, so let me know if it's yes for spiritual or no for spiritual or
yes for physical or no for physical and, and the same for social as well. And that's about it for me
		

			today and I will speak to you all tomorrow inshallah. Till then remember, be sincere and work hard.