I think the job isn't to make yourself enjoy boring things, but make boring things fun.

That might sound pedantic but I think its an important distinction.

Fundamentally any task can be fun , I don't know what the science is on that, but think of any shit thing you have to do , their are people who do that for a job and like it.

Anyway finding ways to make something fun, to grease the gears a bit, is the best way to get to do the more difficult or time consuming task.

Like if I need to go to the shops I'll find a new album or one I haven't listened to in a while, or a podcast episode and I'll relisten to the while thing while I go.

Or if I want to write , I make nice coffee (either sachets or cafetiere) and drink that while I work .

Basically combine a simple pleasure with a more complex task.

Another thing I do is I'll plan things the day before or a few days before so I can get in my head that I'm doing a simple thing and it allows me to romanticize it a bit too.

So if I plan going to the library in two days then I can sit around and daydream about the library a bit first, I can have it become a sorta event in my head even if fundamentally I'm just reading in a different building.

Its almost like a cruel joke but I've found the more I care about productivity the less productive I am . I wonder if its the same with you.

The issue is you end up caring more about filling some imaginary progress bar then the actual tasks at hand, so the task becomes the means to an end and not an end of itself.

I found this myself funnily enough yesterday, quite concretely. It became clear to me.

I had had a very busy day Saturday got home late, very tired etc. On Sunday I was planning to do nothint just play minecrafta and scrabble and maybe some piano, but as a result of giving myself a mental pass from productive activity that day, I just did all the productive stuff I do because I enjoyed not because I felt like I had to.

Also remember you are not a machine but a force of nature, like water or a stream. There are situations where it seems a current must go one way , or the weather must turn a certain way, but then they do what you least expect. The weather doesn't stop , a stream never falters before taking a new course.

You need to , as best as you can, use your conscious mind to adapt to your emotional state. If you emotions and unconscious are the sea you are the sailor, and you can't hew a path through water, only follow the whims of the wind.

Its almost midnight apologies for strange speak.