Unless you are one of the very few who don’t have to do the crappy parts of their creative projects, there are crap tasks. These are the tasks that you put off because you are in too good of a mood to ruin it with a lame, often repetitive job.
After my 50 birthday month, I was feeling a little crap. All my fun was over. Poor me! Great. Time to do those crap tasks I have been avoiding with all my more important, more satisfying, more pleasurable jobs.
I set out to empty one of my storage spaces. It was too expensive, too dirty, too dimly lit. It was not a job I was looking forward to. But I already felt a little crappy.
Every year I make a family photo album. It is truly a labor of love because no one wants to sift through a year of photos, choose the best ones, lay them out, write captions, etc. But I don’t trust my mind to remember the moments, so I do these things. Feeling crappy and not knowing what to do to push my many projects forward meaningfully, I decided to pair this rich crap feeling with a rich crap task. Four hours later, the first photo round is selected and the layout has begun.
Now I have something to feel good about. I’m a little lighter. I have gotten some weight of obligation off of my mind. I have gotten through some of the crap.
What special crap feeling can you pair with a rich crap task?