For example, the other day I was getting together a database of Holidays for an iPhone app I was working on. Being a perfectionist in nature, my first inclination was to gather the list of holidays for EVERY country across the world, which was very time intensive, and would have taken over a week.

My wife took a look at me and said “Why are you doing that? No-one has ever downloaded your app from those countries. Why not focus on the top 40 countries? If the app does well, you can go back and put in the other countries as well if you want.”

I followed her advice and spent the week I would have spent on a task mainly to satisfy my perfectionist nature instead on adding new features to my app that will make more of a difference to the typical user.

What an interesting story. That’s a smart way of thinking. It’s often surprising to see how people are “applying” this principle :)

Does remind me about how a friend of mine was somewhat amazed about my organising skills when I had to improvise some things to create an instant lunch for a rather large group with hardly any time left before the visitors came, by simply making it easy on myself without making it seem like I didn’t take any care for it, I did take good care of it I only did it in
an easy ‘Lazy Way’ with ‘Rocked speed’ :)

I became to ambrace ‘The Lazy Way’ because of a Telesemenar with that title. First I thought, this probably is all highly questionable and probably some kind of scam. But it actually all made a lot of sense!

(At my Travel Blogspot you can find a link to this Book highly recommended book by scrolling all the way down till – in Big Blue Letters you see the title ‘Digital Photography’ than below in the left corner you will see it under the title ‘Higly Recommended’)

You can find my Travel Blogspot at:

http://hpshappytravel.blogspot.com

All the Best,
To your Happy – Lazy Way – Inspiration,
HP

I think this is great advice. I immediately thought of my son who tries to get away with everything like leaving jackets, schoolbag, clothes, cups, everything lying about all over the house. He knows he has to pick them up and put them away but he walks away in the hope no one will shout him back to pick everything up. When I asked why he does this all the time when he knows he won’t get away with it, he replied ‘because there’s always a chance you won’t shout me back’ – How do you argue with logic like that :)