Do you have something in your business that you really hate to do? You probably spend more time thinking about it, worrying about it, and being burdened with it than you would if you liked it. If you liked it, you’d be done already.
My nephew had to take English again in summer school. He was going to miss out on a group family vacation. He was going to miss fishing for trout, miss horseback riding, miss swimming down the river in inner tubes with his cousins. And all for what? Because he didn’t pass English during the regular school year.
He told me he hated English and that was why he failed the course. Funny way to show it. If he hated English so much, why would he spend his summer taking English classes? If he hated English so much, why would he make sure that he had to spend more time studying English than the kids who finished during the year? If he hated English so much, why didn’t he breeze through that class as fast as possible so he didn’t have to spend one extra minute studying English? Not one more minute.
It makes no sense, but he hadn’t thought of it that way before.
If you really dislike something so much, power through that task or project as fast as you can and put it behind you. Get it over and done with. Go spend more time doing something you like.
You could also find someone who loves to do that thing and have them do it for you. This is the art of delegation. Get the people who love a task or project to do that task or project. They’ll do a better job than you if you hate it that much. They’ll have a better attitude and probably get it done in a shorter period of time. Probably way more cost effective this way.
The point is, the longer you wait to do something you don’t like to do, the more time you spend doing it. That doesn’t make any sense and it doesn’t help your business. Figure out a way to spend less time on those projects, not more. How you spend your time is your choice. Why not choose to spend more time doing the things you like to do? It’s better for your business.
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Give my best wishes to your nephew, I know when I was his age I’d have been very keen to fail English if it got my out of that holiday!
But, your point is definitely valid about doing things you dislike properly. I’ve always found that these are good areas to pursue at the very start of the day, then leaves the tasks I’m going to enjoy more for later on. Often, you need a ‘Just Do It’ philosophy – the more time you spend thinking about it, or trying to put ways to put things off, the less you ever accomplish.
Thom