Couch Potato Secrets

I have been actually wondering where the term “Couch Potato” came.  Why, in so many things in the world, we were associated with potatoes? Who was the one responsible of this term?  As I have searched for the answers to these questions, this is what I have found:

The term “Couch Potato” was first coined in 1976 by American underground comics artist Robert Armstrong. In the early-1980s, he would register the term as a trademark with the US government; he would also co-author a book with Jack Mingo, called The Official Couch Potato Handbook, which delve into the lives and secrets of Couch Potatoes.

The term would eventually enter common American vocabulary, generally defining one with a habit of eating potato chips while watching TV. The phrase was entered into the Oxford English Dictionary in 1993. Though this derivation of the phrase may have currency, the idea of a couch potato stems from the idea that they (potatoes) given enough time and left alone tend to sprout. People living on a couch tend to sprout all kinds of funk.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/ 

So, it was the comic artist Robert Armstrong.  Like potatoes, a “couch potato” just sprouts in due to his lifestyle that lacks physical activity.  Thus, he grows bigger in that couch just as potatoes grow from where it is planted.  Hmmm, good thinking there by Mr. Armstrong.

Surely couch potatoes are not exempted of having tasks or goals in life. We also have goals that wants to achieve. Or even with simple tasks that want to get done. But the problem is we can’t resist the couch. Sometimes we can’t do simple chores bcause we’re stuck in the couch and it really feels heavy to get up. So what do we really need to get up and do the moves?

Motivation.

Get motivated. Motivation is one key to success. Even with just getting up the couch, we need to be motivated. It’s all in the mind! Command yourself to get up and start the thing. Once you have started, it’ll get easier and we won’t mind being out the couch eventually. It would then really feel good once we have finished that simple task.

Getting motivated is not only for simple tasks. It is most important when you want to achieve a goal in life. Getting yourself motivated in doing the simple tasks will help you get motivated when doing a bigger task or goal.

This doesn’t mean that I am encouraging you to leave the couch potato lifestyle. This is just to help you achieve your goals and tasks easily. It is important that we finish our tasks first before we sit comfortably in the couch and relax our mind and body.