The sixth strategy is reframing the things we don’t like to do in our job. What things do you not like about your job? Make a list of the things you don’t like about your job For example, I used get bored with mundane aspects of my job like reviewing new information of competitors, comparing that new information against our records, and then updating the sales tools.

Why do you not like to do them?
Do you have to do them? For example, in one of my jobs, I didn’t enjoy the monotony of the updates. I had to do them since it was a major part of my job. I found I enjoyed doing the new competitive intelligence reviews of emerging competitors. However, I didn’t like maintaining the files on the competitors I had created. I learned to do the boring stuff first, so I could get them out of the way.

Reframe, Keep Reframing
Reframe the thing that you don’t like to do. Yes, it’s a cliché, but it works. I reframed by knowing that by having up-to-date information helped the product management team, who in turn would review the competitors feature or functionality, determining if we needed to reprioritize our development schedule.

Learn more to make it Interesting
Learn more about the skills required to support the thing that you don’t like to do. Can you make the job function more interesting by becoming an expertise in it? Can you identify new techniques to keep it from being boring or make it challenging for you? We all have elements in our jobs that we dislike. The trick is to trick ourselves into enjoying by reframing and learning something new to enhance or augment our interaction with the things we dislike.

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