I’ve gone as far as to make a separate todo list for things that make me cringe. When the top of my todo list is full of things I know I’m not going to do, it just makes me feel bad about myself and stops myself doing the rest.

So I move them to a list of ‘jobs I’m avoiding’, and move it to the back of the folder so I don’t have to look at it every few hours. Then, when I’m in such a bad mood that it doing the unpleasant jobs won’t make it worse, I go through this list, and do them.

And, the rest of the time, I can go through my usual todo lists without being put off by things I really don’t want to do.