Don't Be Lazy.

Every kid hates taking out the trash or doing the dishes.  It's simply not a pleasant task, but in all reality is not that hard.  You do it, get it done quickly, and it's over.

The theme of this blog entry is don't be lazy. What's something that you've always wanted to do but have not done yet?  For years I've wanted to patent an idea.  I've yet to do it, but there are other things that I have wanted to do and have completed.

For the past few months I've been working on my fifth ski chair.  It was an arduous task that I almost gave up on, but refused to quit.  Yesterday I set a goal to finish the chair no matter what.  I worked out it for four hours and completed not only the chair (with a cool new feature!) but my first bench too.  Have I mentioned that these were both made from nothing but skis.  Here are some pictures.

 This is the first bench that I have made.  It was first going to be a table, but a request was made for a bench so I made it into a bench.

Below are pictures of my last New Jersey chair.  I originally had them as solid chairs with the bottoms connected to the backrests, but they were hard to move.  New versions I put hinges on for folding with supports on the back portion.

For this chair I put chains on the armrests to support the backrest and enable folding.

The point of this is that I almost threw this chair out.  I wasn't happy with the armrests I first designed.  Thus, instead of throwing it all away, I took apart the parts I didn't like, threw away the corrupted skis ( holes, nails) and did a new design and order for making the armrests, I think it turned out well.

Other not being lazy examples:
Checking parts off my to do list before moving.  This past weekend- Cafe Wha? in the Village of New York CIty.  I have always wanted to go there and finally did.


Completing projects at work that will leave the distribution center a little more organized that I found it.


Playing football every weekend for the past few months.  I could never punt a ball before, but after months of practicing during games and half time, I got pretty good.  I actually kicked it to the one yard line this past weekend.  Pretty cool.


Of course now my goals are for packing the car and driving to Colorado.  That will be fun.

What are some things that you've not wanted to do but realized how simple it was?  What's something that you've been putting off?

Don't be lazy, do it.  In the mean time, anyone know a good patent attorney?