How to make admin day something you LOVE!

Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. I hope you're having an awesome day today. I'm live all over the places, so I'm trying to manage all of that. If I don't see your Uh, response or your message underneath the video. I will go back after and I will answer any questions that you may have, any of those things, because, uh, I am live on 4 places right now and I can't keep track of them all and still remember what I'm saying because, you know, ADHD. And I'm trying to move my phone so that it stays and doesn't fall down here. Hopefully it'll stay there. I hope you're all having an awesome day today. It is Friday. I missed yesterday's live in my challenging myself because I did not feel well. I am actually coming to you from my bed. My MS is getting the best of me the last few days, so I'm trying to adapt the best that I can and we'll try to make up for it, maybe go live once this weekend. I hope you're having an awesome day. So why do you need an admin day even if you aren't a business owner? Because we all have admin tasks that we have to get done. Making those doctor's appointments, paying a toll by email or online, getting that new thing ordered from Amazon that you were supposed to, returning boxes to Amazon that you were supposed to do it, making the doctor's appointments, all of those things. We all have those things to do. If you have a full-time job, your admin day probably isn't a full day. Those of us that are entrepreneurs need almost an entire full day to get all of our admin tasks Done because we have to do our bookkeeping and we have to send invoices and we have to check in with contacts and we have to network and we have to— we have all of these things that we have to do. And we all know that and it feels overwhelming. So how do you make admin day fun? Because you have to have one. We all need them. So maybe you only need— if you have a full-time job, maybe you only need 2 hours once or twice a week, or maybe you just need an hour on a Saturday morning to do all of the things. Everybody's different in what you need for admin time. Again, as a busy entrepreneur, I need a whole entire day. Fridays are my admin day. So how do I make it fun? One, I body double. And right now I don't have Chatty Body Doubling open because we have a version where we can all talk with each other. I don't have that open right now because I'm doing live videos and it messes up my camera. But talk to others that are doing the same kind of things. We have body doubling at night for those that have day jobs. We have body doubling on the weekends for those of us that need to clean up our clutter and deal with our chaos. We have body doubling all day long during the normal work week. It is possible to get things done with others, not feel judged, not feel like somebody's cracking a whip and not being told what you have to do. You set your parameters of what you want to get done and ask for the support. It's what body doubling is there. It's for co-regulation. It's for comic regulation maybe. And it's for, it really is for fun. So how do I make my admin days fun? I get my favorite Mickey ears. I get my favorite tiara out because while it seems really stupid, dress for what you wish you were doing. I would love to just be a queen and somebody else feeding me grapes and bringing me unlimited amounts of very yummy coffee that I don't have to make myself and not be doing all of the boring tasks that I need to do. So I just make it a little more sparkly and fun. Sometimes it's Mickey Mouse ears. Sometimes it's Donald Duck ears. Sometimes it's Yoda ears. Whatever it is that you need to make it fun. Change your location. Go to Starbucks, go to McDonald's, go sit outside on your deck, go to the park, go to Disney World and work for a few hours to get some of those boring tasks done. Find something that changes your situation to make it more fun, because if you make it more fun, you look forward to it every week and you want to get the thing done. It doesn't matter where you do your admin tasks as long as you're working on them, and you could body double from anywhere. I've body doubled from my car. I've body doubled from Wendy's before. Find a way to body double, get things done, and, and just enjoy the process. We all hate making doctor's appointments. We all hate fill in the blank. 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 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. I get so much done. I'm listening to rock music all day long. My channel is full of Ozzy and Metallica and Iron Maiden and Halestorm and things like that, and I listen to that on full volume the whole entire time I'm doing admin tasks if I'm not in chatty body doubling because I don't want to blast anybody else's ears out. I talk to people all day long that are fun. We're picking on each other. There's comic relief. We're sending each other memes while we're doing tasks. And I could be at Starbucks. I could be on my back deck. I'm in my bed today and that's fine. But I still try to find a way to make it a little more fun. Make your admin days enjoyable. Then you look forward to them every single week. Have an awesome day. This is Danielle from ND Out Loud and ND Hive. If you want that kind of support, if you want to have that kind of fun, come join us. We're just $19 $9.99 a month. Skip one Starbucks a week and you could afford us. Come join us. We have daily body doubling from 7 AM to 5 PM Central, Monday through Friday. We have 4 days of coaching, so they're group coaching calls, but they're one-on-one coaching in a group setting. So come join us, get the help you need, get the support you need, and have fun doing it.