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6 surprising ways to make boring tasks interesting

Sometimes it might feel like you have to complete
ordinary, frustrating and seemingly useless tasks. These
tasks have a way of demoralizing and discouraging you
and this can keep you from finding enjoyment or
fulfillment in your work. Jumia Travel, the leading online
travel agency shares 6 ways to make these boring tasks
more interesting.

Change Your Mindset

Don’t give up and start dwelling on the erroneous fact
that you are stuck in a rut and will never be able to find
interest in or actually enjoy these tasks. Get rid of that
thought completely. Understand that everything in life is
a choice. You might not be able to change what you are
doing, but you might as well find a way to make it
bearable until you are able to make a change. Take the
reins, take control and make completing that task a
choice to enjoy as opposed to a depressing non-
negotiable commitment.

Stimulate Yourself and Your Environment

Try to make your surroundings interesting. If your
present environment is dull, move to one that’s livelier
for you, one that brightens your mood and makes
completing the task more interesting; however, ensure
you’re still able to concentrate on your work. If you can’t
change your environment or if a change of environment
will be too distracting, play some music, listen to a vlog
or listen to an audiobook while you work. Basically, liven
up your environment in a way that will not disturb your
concentration.

Find the Bright Side

There’s always something to learn from these boring
tasks. Discover things you can learn from completing
such tasks. Find out how these tasks can benefit you or
find ways to make these tasks beneficial to you. For
example, writing a business report might be boring but
the research you do in the process adds to your
knowledge pool and teaches you important skills like how
to communicate clearly, fact checking and how to
organize important documents. The knowledge added
and skills gained can help to prepare you for other
opportunities and push you forward in your career.

Break the Duration of the Task into Manageable Periods

It can further worsen your feeling of discouragement and
dissatisfaction, when you have to work on boring tasks
with little or no break. It’s easier on you if you manage
your time and split the completion of the task into
manageable periods so you can dabble into one or two
other things in the process. It helps to keep you
energized and focused. If your task is one you can split
into periods, then please do so.

Reward Yourself

If there’s no one to appreciate and encourage you, then
by all means please do so yourself. Self-love and
appreciation is the best form of love and appreciation.
To make completing boring tasks more interesting, give
yourself a treat when you are done with it. It can be
daily, weekly or monthly, it’s your choice. The treat can
be as simple as watching a movie when you are done or
if you want to be a bit more elaborate splurging on
something nice after weeks or months of successfully
completing the task.

Count Your Blessings

This mainly helps you keep things in perspective and
keep the right frame of mind while performing a boring
task. Sit for a moment and think of how much worse it
could be and the fact that someone somewhere in the
world or even as close as in your neighborhood is living
through that worst case scenario. You’ll feel a little
more appreciative and completing the task will be easier
to bear (at least until you are able to get something
better).

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