[ralphstodomingo]

I've had some recent success at confronting these incidents by finding some secondary purpose or source of fun in the activity.

For example, there's a company-wide report I'm in charge of curating every week. I've been doing it for the last 37 weeks or so, and have started to become dreadful to finish. Took me an upwards of 2 hours every week to accomplish. It deals with people's submissions and cleaning them up, and checking for erroneous entries, so only a fraction of the whole report can be automated.

Until 3 weeks ago, I started considering timing myself doing the thing, and making note of what improvements I could do to speed up my next run. Within 3 weeks, I reduced the overall time for that task by around 75%, as it just takes me around 30 minutes now. This last run I did today I think I carved out more than 10 minutes of my previous run.