I remember living as a single guy, right after my college graduation. I had what I now consider to be "lazy habits." Dishes, for example: I'd let them pile up in the sink all week, and then rush to get them all washed, dried and put away before a visitor came. Inevitably, it took three times as long to scrub them all down, dry them, and put them away. It wasn't a smart (or hygienic) process, and it caused me to be late to nearly all of my Friday evening engagements.
My laziness not only made me inefficient it made it impossible to see that there was a better way to do this. Spend 5 seconds doing the dishes when I used them, versus an hour catching up on them all at once.
This kind of laziness doesn't just affect dishwashing. It affects people at work, too. And it ends up the same way - people spending a huge amount of time to do a job that should have taken a few minutes.
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