Sometimes the work just needs to be done.
It’s not grueling, but it’s not interesting either.
That sort of mundane work can be maddening sometimes. There’s not much strategy to consider. There’s not a novel approach to try. There’s simply work and an incredibly straight-forward, repetitive way to do it.
That’s an opportunity for teamwork.
The strategy remains the same. The work remains mundane. But now you have company. Moral support.
And that can go a long way toward boosting motivation, building relationships, and just plain getting the work done faster.
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It’s easy to put off learning categorically.
You’re never going to finish everything, there will always be more to do. Every time you cross something off of your todo list, something new will be added (or maybe a few things).
Change is hard. We all want to do more of something we determine to be a good habit and less of something we consider to be a bad habit. More time focusing on a project, less time distracted by email, for instance.
Most of us are familiar with the way the pessimist sees the glass as half empty and the optimist sees it as half full. It’s the same glass seen from two different perspectives. Each person sees it differently because they have preconditioned themselves to look for and notice good or bad things. It’s a matter of attitude, mostly.