Can laziness be overcome via 12 step program?

I am a very lazy person. A very, very lazy person. Right now I am feeling strong resistance to writing this blog, even starting it. I really just want to go back to bed even though it is almost noon. But I can't, because I have a job interview in the morning and I can't afford to not get sleep.

I've researched laziness a lot. As it turns out, some people are genetically predisposed to being lazy. They did studies on rats and all that, played around with their genetic code. They could turn active rats into couch potatoes, and vise versa. Well I figure that some people are more predisposed to alcoholism, but that doesn't mean that they have to become alcoholics. So why should genetically predisposed lazy people have to become lazy?

I am going to treat my laziness like an addiction. An addiction, by a definition that I'm stealing from a psychologist (source below), is something that:

You continue to do it even when it causes you problems with your health, relationships, job success or self esteem.

· You begin to organize your day or week around participating in your vice.

· Your addiction begins to narrow your experience of life.

· You develop a talent for magical thinking, storytelling and excuses.

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Doesn't that sound EXACTLY like the kind of behaviors and consequences lazy people face? That article is actually about laziness being an addiction, and I think the author hits the nail on the head- which is why I've decided to try and tackle this problem the way you would an addiction. Because honestly, I have done things like buying new cloths instead of doing laundry, laying in bed until well into the afternoon after waking up, eat nothing but frozen, canned and bagged food, let my $400 guitar dry out, do half ass jobs on things, the list goes on. I'm not entirely sure why laziness exists, that'll be something I research for a future post. For now, let's look at what the 12-step program is:

1. We admitted we were powerless over laziness - that our lives had become unmanageable

2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to lazy asses, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

I replaced alcoholics with lazy asses, since we're not trying to over come alcohol here. So, I guess we start at step 1. I do believe that it is more complicated that simply getting off your ass and doing it, like so many claim. But honestly, I think that works about as well as an alcoholic simply not drinking. It's not that easy, and if this all goes well and I succeed I will very seriously consider starting a meet up group, assuming people will bother to show up, that is. Being lazy asses and all.