One Sure-Fire Tip for Engaging the Hard Stuff - Wisdom4Humanity with Patrick Mosher

My accounting professor laid my midterm exam down on my desk, a big fat red C at the top. Did you know you can C out of an MBA program? Just one C in one class and they can drop you like a hot potato. I hated going to my accounting class. Boring stuff. Zero motivation. I was in a PhD program in organization behavior and human resources That's the fun stuff, the exciting stuff, the dynamic stuff. People and decision-making. Accounting was just counting and tracking beans. Ugh. As I stared at that C, I realized it was staring back at me. It was pissed. Did I just hear it ask, "What are you doing?" I took the midterm exam home and just looked at that C. Not at the exam, not at the problems, not at my incorrect answers. Just that "see." "I see you, but what do you want?" I was almost screaming at it, and I was surprised at its answer. "Love me." Flabbergasted, I asked, "How?" No answer. Halfway through accounting, and I have a C average. Two more exams and my advanced degree aspirations in organization behavior are over. Love me. I loved up that C in managerial accounting with this simple tactic. I reframed accounting. Instead of slogging through each assignment in each class, I reframed it into something I love. I turned it into a game. My world became a financial accounting game. Instead of a simple personal checkbook, I created a chart of accounts. I entered every expense as a journal entry. I calculated the current salvage value of the computer for which my dad loaned me the money. No cent was going to fall through the cracks and not be counted. I went to town. And this was my first launch of Mosher Inc. From that instant of my mindset shift, I loved accounting. Instead of slogging through weekly assignments, I read the textbook with zeal, pored over the assignments, and learned how to run Mosher Inc. 2 A's later, and I passed with a B+. More than that though, I learned something even more important. To this day, I still love that C in managerial accounting. I keep the managerial accounting textbook close by in my office as a reminder to love my Cs in life. The deepest learning from my Cs only come from when I reframed them, and yes, love them. With that shift, I realize it is 100% in my power to gamify, gratify, beautify the ickiest to-dos on my to-do list. I get to do X. I'm privileged to do X. I'm blessed to do X. I feel immersed in immense gratitude that the universe has given me this amazing opportunity to do X. Just one shift away. What is that one thing you're resisting doing? Needs to be done. It's screaming for your attention. What does it want? Just a little love.