Why aren’t we doing the things in life we know are the most important? What’s preventing us from developing the “joyful effort” we need to progress in our spiritual lives? The main obstacle to working hard, happily, for real and lasting happiness is laziness. Laziness can mean “just not feeling like it” – always procrastinating and putting off what we know we should do. But laziness can also involve keeping so busy with unimportant things that we don’t have the time and energy to dedicate to our spiritual lives. We must learn to “get unbusy” with things that don’t really matter in order to joyfully work hard for the things that do.
