How To Delete Irritating Work And Upgrade Your Focus To What You Find Fascinating

Doing meaningful work isn’t about doing more.

It’s about doing less. A lot less.

Checking off the never-ending task list sucks you into a vortex of low motivation, frustration, with no progress on what matters the most.

“Tightly scheduled entrepreneurs can’t innovate” when they’re trying to do everything, says Dan Sullivan. “You need some slack in your system to transform yourself, to be able to step back and actually look at what you’re doing. You can’t be focused on working non-stop.”

To be inspired and work on the right things, you have to push yourself to work on things you find fascinating.

Dan calls it The ABC Model:

A: The Irritating Tasks

Nobody likes working on irritating tasks, which is different for everyone.

The first step is telling the truth about what you find irritating. What drains you? What makes you irritated even thinking about having to do it?

For me, irritating is damn near everything repetitive and administrative.

Irritated people are hard to be around. Their irritation affects every area of their life.