Just do it is great advice—most of the time.
Plenty of what I have to do in my job and I'm life strikes a note of such utter banality that I have to roll my eyes.
Update the CRM, schedule a meeting, find an arborist, fill out the daycare form.
It's not that these tasks aren't important—they are!—it's just that they are boring. Sometimes I manage to triumph over the boredom by fixation on the underlying reasons:
Better business development, a thorough interview prep process, a healthy tree, not getting my kids kicked out of daycare.
Can this be easier? is a question that's always lurking in my mind, and every once in a while, I answer myself. But these aren't always good ideas.
I spent an entire afternoon trying to determine if I could "automate" the process of sending Outlook meeting invites for pursuit milestones. I learned that you can set up Excel with a macro that auto-generates meeting invites based on information carefully entered into a dozen columns. You filled out the table, clicked the Run button for the macro, and ta-da! Outlook would open a bunch of meeting invites with all the proper info already toggled.
But…it wasn't that much faster than creating the meeting invites the normal way.
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