take pleasure in unpleasant things

Now here is a challenge: to find pleasure in moving (from Humboldt County to the San Francisco Peninsula).

Ecch. Any ideas for how to make this fun?

Today I did a boring task as a meditation. It was a task that needed to be done with a lot of care, but was not very interesting: copying some text out by hand for a personal letter. So I used it as therapy. I actually went pretty fast, but I didn’t rush. I just let the task calm and focus my mind. I ended up not making a single mistake. (The letter was eight pages long.)

that are really tough to sit down to do.
Many times I have gotten things done by pretending that it is “my job”. You know, like a paying job with a boss and all that.
I will do that with this unpleasant task, act as if it is NOT up to me..I work for General Motors and I’ll be de-moted if I don’t follow through!

I will pretend that I have just come home from a long time at sea! (well, I was visiting the sea but luckily not from a rusty old tub for months). Yeah, I will pretend that I am just getting my sea legs back and that I am really glad to be home (which is actually the truth)..but for the sake of this exercise I’ll be the captains daughter, the girl who was lashed to the mast of the Hesperus during the big storm, you know the Longfellow poem? shoot, I don’t think she even GOT to come home, something about freezing on the mast. dreary. But I’ll use it for my image to get through unpacking! (Because I am kind of cold and still thinking of the ocean) I mean, what do you bet the heroine of that poem would have loved to have had a bag or two to unpack, if only she could?

most unpleasant! I mean..geez louise why did I leave everything to the last minute!

In order to have fun doing this I am going to put on some Beach Boys music. Most of their music is fast, except “In my room”

I cleaned out one complete cupboard. Only about 7 more (including drawers) to go.

I’ve been stalling.

Today I am going to work on the project right after lunch. I am going to pretend that Donald Trump is going to be inspecting my work in one hour!

and I finished..(cleaning up the mess in the bedroom) hooray for me!

now I just have to straighten up my home office. How can I make this rather unpleasant task more interesting? I might take a page from good old Flylady’s book and just set the timer. Yes..I will work on this until 8 pm (20 minutes from now). I will stop working promptly at 8 pm. It will be revealed to me just how much I can get done in 20 minutes!

Honestly, it IS better than nothing.

Yesterday as I worked on my kitchen project. I imagined that I was a woman I used to work for. She was a one woman army as she did things. She was just unstoppable in the getting things done department! Her name is Gene.
I imagined I was Gene.