As in any job, there are things that you just don’t want to do. Obligations, responsibilities, and/or seemingly meaningless tasks. Maybe it’s a way to get some deliberate practice in. Maybe it’s a great time to observe how it’s hitting your H-IOS. Choose what you do want it to be for you.

My point is, this event isn’t going away, unless it can, and you have the ability to choose how you want to tackle it. Do meaningless tasks have to be dreaded, auto-piloted, monotony that we begrudgingly do because of whatever reason?

I say, they can, if you want them to be, AND, should you choose to, examine that program you’re running and see what new program you can throw in there. Filing papers? Sweet, what if you time yourself to see if you can get a PR log going. Have to go to a meeting for a project that your department isn’t even a part of? Good, what if this time you go with the intention of figuring out how your department can support more.

The best part about these “meaningless tasks” is, typically, they are the tasks we have least connection to the result. If the result doesn’t matter, I challenge you to do it a different way, with a new attitude, or with a new focus in mind.
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Connect with a new meaning to your task. The result may not be as miserable and meaningless as you’ve made it out to be. And really, what do you have to lose? A miserable meaningless task.