Admin tasks like taxes and paperwork are unavoidable, but you can make them fun by changing your environment: wear a crown, light a candle, play upbeat music, move to a different room. Do admin work weekly to avoid year-end panic.
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There's always something that we hate about those admin-type tasks that we as adults have to do, especially if you're a parent and really especially if you're an entrepreneur. There are so many things that you have to do and you don't have a choice. We can control a lot, but there are still things that we have zero choice, even when you own a business, that you have to do. I have legal paperwork I have to do. I have to do all my taxes. I have to— like, I don't have a choice. Gotta do those things in order to be successful at what I do. And I have to do them consistently so that I'm not in year-end And shame and panic over any of these things. So I try to do them at least once a week when I do it. And when I do something to make it fun, wear the crown, wear the Mickey ears, wear the fun baseball hat, wear your pajamas, whatever you want to do. If you want to put that ball gown on to get tasks done to make your admin day more fun, do that. Change the vibe from your normal. If you're an entrepreneur or a stay-at-home mom, you work at home all the time, change your vibe. Use a new coffee cup. Make yourself a different kind of coffee. Make it a special coffee. Light a candle. Play fun music. Do something different than you normally do. Leave your house. Do something. Change your location. Change your temperature. Change your clothes. Whatever it is that you need to do to make something fun so that you look forward to it, because admin days are one of my favorite days during the week.