How can I use meditation and mindfulness to help me complete boring or unpleasant tasks during the week?
If you don't find tasks unpleasant,
Then just don't do it.
You don't have to necessarily connect them to meditation.
However,
If you stop doing these unpleasant tasks,
Then it brings about losses to you,
A cost.
Then go ahead and just do it.
Say there's a tasty looking dish and it looks really really good.
But however,
You know there's poison in there.
Then we don't eat it,
Right?
Do you have to consider eating it nevertheless?
Or you just don't eat it?
Is there a hesitancy?
Or do you have to make a conscious effort not to eat it when you know it's poisonous?
No,
We say,
No,
I can't eat this.
It's an immediate decision you make just because you know that it's going to kill you if you eat it.
And it's another example.
You're suffering from a disease.
It's an incurable disease.
But somebody tells you that you've got to drink this medicine.
It's going to cure you.
It's very very bitter.
However,
You know you'll drink it.
So if you're saying that it's too bitter for me to drink it,
Then you know that you're basically also saying that this sickness is not as bad.
This suffering is not as bad for you.
You're basically saying,
You know what?
I can get by without drinking this medicine.
But say that there's a poisonous food in front of you but you're kind of hesitating and you still want to kind of eat it.
That really means that you don't think you'll die by eating it.
So going back to your question,
If there are unpleasant tasks and by not doing it,
You don't incur a lot of costs or you can live with the cost,
Then just don't do it.
However,
If there's a huge loss associated with not doing those unpleasant tasks,
Then you don't have to connect it to meditation.
Because meditation is knowing the underlying principle that drives your decision making.
