It’s incredibly hard to do something you hate.

Laziness is the perfect distraction. It’s easier to sit on your butt and do nothing than it is to go and do something you’re disinterested in.

Do you know the biggest source of disinterest? Everyday jobs.

There are so many people who freaking hate their job. Sometimes you wonder whether a person would rather be dead than continue doing their job. They have a pulse, but their job sucked the life out of them years ago. Now they resort to sending emails to create change, and even that burns them out.

They struggle with Monday Motivation because they’re disinterested in their job. That’s no way to live. Doing work you literally hate is a pain in the backside. And guess what? This is a message to myself just as much as it is a message for you. I don’t pretend to be some mythical productivity guru.

What I’ve accidentally been doing without realizing it, is tipping the scales towards interest, and away from disinterest.

Let me give you a practical example. This week a man messaged me. He’s based in Afghanistan. He started telling me his story. I got completely lost in it. I wasted hours of time. I convinced him to send me photos of Afghanistan. The interest I had in his story is almost impossible to explain. I had dreams of his hometown after we spoke. That’s interest. That’s what your interests can do to you. Here’s what else I noticed.