One who craves will never be fulfilled. This is the most common of common sense, yet, so many are so unaware of this. What was once common has become uncommon and what was once uncommon has become common. We truly live in an upside down world.

Efforts bring accomplishment. Laziness creates a vacuum. Accomplishments will fill one's heart and life with good things. Laziness will create a vacuum that will suck out all the good things from one's heart and life.

Craving that which cannot be had is a waste of energy. The wise will make no efforts into acquiring that which cannot be acquired. On the other hand, the fool will waste his time and effort and still accomplish nothing.

Worse than this is the lazy one, who never makes any efforts at all and pines away and cries over that which he never ever made any effort to acquire. At least the fool knows that he could not succeed and he moves on. The lazy one never moves on, never moves over and never accomplishes anything. The lazy are a complete waste of being.

Laziness is the greatest of evils. There is laziness of the body, of the heart and of the mind. One can be lazy on one area and not in the others.

Laziness of the body is when we do not eat properly and when we do not strenuously exercise daily as is required.

Laziness of the heart is when we allow our emotions to control us and to run rampant, turning our lives into a roller-coaster ride.

Laziness of the mind is when we do not think for ourselves, to properly analyze things and instead rely upon the decisions and opinions of others.

Overcoming laziness of the body requires of one to watch what and how one eats and to get off one's behind and exercise to maintain robust health. These are required practices under Torah Law.

Overcoming laziness of the heart requires of one to not act instinctually based upon how one feels, but rather to take pause, to think and decide how best one can express how one feels in the most appropriate and beneficial way. This is required by the Torah directives for proper behavior.

Overcoming laziness of the mind is the hardest. It requires of one not to follow after the crowd, but to sometimes stand out apart from it. One must not only learn to think for oneself, one must also have the courage to stand up for what one believes. One must learn wisdom, how best it is to express oneself, be it one's thoughts or one's feelings. This is required for one's spiritual growth, to be a full human being created in the Divine Image.

There is no magic way to overcome laziness. Laziness is overcome one step at a time. One must first take the smallest of steps. Then one must repeat this again, then again and again. Once one makes the smallest of steps and keeps on stepping forward, regardless of how small, one is still nonetheless in motion. With motion comes speed and with speed, great distances can be traversed. This movement is called learning.

All life is about learning. We learn from all things, in all times and in all places. Even when we waste our time in the pursuit of wasteful things, the pursuit might have value even when the object of the pursuit does not. Lessons of commitment, discipline and the expenditure of effort are themselves great rewards. The acquisition is not as important as is the pursuit. When we act, we achieve. This is a great lesson.

Without action, there is never achievement. Without achievement, there is never fulfillment. Without fulfillment, there is no true life. Why do some choose to go through life while only half-alive? The answer is because they are lazy. The lazy are as if they are dead. They are worthless to others and to themselves.