To Do List Draining You? Brighten Up The Tasks You Dread
Vampire Tasks
Everyone has at least one of them. Something you hate to do. Something you dread. You procrastinate about it or do your best to avoid it. When you have to do it you get crabby about it.
What is it for you? Your staff meeting? Traveling for business? Working with a particular client or co-worker? Dealing with computer problems? Doing your expense report? Performance reviews?
Whatever it is, it’s a “vampire task” — something that drains your energy.
But You Have to Do It
Most of the time my focus with clients is on the fun stuff –what lights them up, what they love, what they want, what energizes and enlivens them and how to do more of that.
When we do identify a task that’s draining them, we look long and creatively about how they could stop doing it, delegate it, or hire it out.
Sometimes though there are tasks they choose to keep doing,at least for now.
It could be temporary. Like a woman starting her own business who dislikes accounting. As soon as she has enough income she’ll hire a part-time...