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As a productivity consultant to small business people and managers, people sometimes look at me as if I were promoting laziness and slothful behavior when I guide them to have more free time. Wanting to have more free time doesn't make a person lazy. It might just be a sign that the person is unusually smart. That is evidenced by his or her ability to break away from the mentality of the herd and think independently. The herd mentality leads us to work hard and long in order to make a living and supply our family's needs. What fact of life makes working hard and working long the standard by which we measure our attitude? Isn't our production the basis for the pay for most of us? Because of this, my consultations focus on empowering a person to produce more in less time, which allows them to earn their pay for the required production, just as surely as the person who works longer to achieve the same level of production. I would like to suggest that the person who produces more in less time is definitely not lazy. He or she is, in fact, more productive, smarter and not as lazy than his or her counterpart who just eases along all day to produce requirements that can be done in much less time. Another interesting consideration, as we compare working extra hard for no more or even for less results, is to note that all that time spent working, or standing around the workplace, making excuses to yourself and avoiding the work, until, there is no other choice, is that this excess activity reduces one's ability to think creatively. Working just to fill time is unnecessarily stressful, it wastes time and restricts creativity because it is unbalanced. Look all around you, as well as within yourself, and you will observe that life is cyclical. We go through cycles of work, rest and recreational activities. All these are necessary for happiness and fulfillment. If you always work, you become ineffective and counter-productive. If you rest all the time, you're sure to become lazy and a sluggard. If you play all the time you will likely get bored and come to despise your excessive hedonism. The obvious evidence clearly shows that life needs all three elements. When work is accomplished quickly and effectively, we find time for more relaxed activities, and it can be during these periods of rest, relaxing and doing things we enjoy that we are most likely to be inspired by things in our environment that moves us to action to invent something, paint or photograph a stunning picture, write a song, enjoy our family more, etc. This non work time is more likely to stimulate our creativity. Let me be quick to state that when it is actually necessary to work longer hours, it must be done, but, once again, our value, our pay and our perks are, in the final analysis, based on our production, not just the time we hang around the workplace. Think of your dentist. Would you want his pay to depend on how long and hard he worked on your teeth? Wouldn't you rather he finished quickly and effectively? Or would you tell him he needs to work longer and harder for the amount of his fee? We need to reject the idea that working less is indicative of laziness, unless, of course, the person under consideration is shirking his overall responsibility. Remember that we all work for incentives. That's basic economics. If there were no profit, the businessperson would not operate a business and if there were not a favorable combination of life needs provided, the businessperson wouldn't be able to find people to work and make it possible for him to produce more and make more profit. When we realize that people work for incentives and do other things for fun, doesn't it make sense to reward those, including yourself, who produce more in less time with extra time off, without a reduction in pay? I pose this question assuming that you want a work force of cheerful, motivated people. If we only produce more only to enable us to work longer and harder to produce more with the time saved, we are losing our balance and getting back into the vicious cycle that may lead us to join 26% of American workers who have had or are about to have a nervous breakdown.
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