If you could only teach me one thing...

[xise]

Good advice there man. But sometimes I feel by repeatedly saying no, I'm just being lazy. For instance my mom wants me to cut the carpet to replace it with tile. We have 1/2 of our living room cut already. I am just too lazy to cut the rest. But I probably could if I just decided to.

Sounds like you are being pretty judgmental and harsh toward an other self there.

The other self being you, Gemini Wolf.

All is acceptable. Laziness is acceptable. Though you I doubt you are actually being lazy.

Self-judgment and self-condemnation is an unhealthy but workable way to motivate oneself. Another more balanced way is to think about why you desire or want to do it (it being cutting the living room floor). Perhaps you like to do it for exercise. Or perhaps you want to improve your carpentering skills so you can apply those skills to some other hobby. Perhaps you think it'll look awesome on your resume. There are basically an infinite amount of reasons to look forward to doing something. Just find whats works for you.