Things I know: Laziness

So maybe this is the teacher talking here but the biggest excuse I get for student's failures or inability to succeed is procrastination. Not that I am perfect and do everything when I should and believe me I am busy too, I understand. But if people procrastinated less and did more there would be almost no failures. 

It is amazing how often I hear the phrase, " I am smart, I am just lazy." Well this may be true to some extent but if one was truly smart wouldn't they find a way to get things accomplished and be lazy? Let's look at the people that we admire in life, whether it be a rapper or a journalist or civil rights leader. What if they were lazy people, would they have accomplished anything no matter how smart they were? 

"Sorry I wanted to get up and lead the African American community in a sit in but I didn't feel like getting off the couch."  I doubt Martin Luther King would have been in our history books if this had been his attitude. 

I am not saying that it is not OK to be lazy every once in awhile and I know that a lot of us grow out of it, or at least I hope that this is the case, but really people show some initiative. Just saying....