Do it right.

Today's Old Testament reading is from the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter 9, verse 10:

"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might."

This is the verse that comes to mind — I was raised Southern Baptist; lots of verses will come to mind if I let them — whenever I hear someone complaining about some chore that they are doing, especially if that chore is a TASK AVOIDANCE.

Without getting too Pollyanna-ish about it, you are better off if you regard those things you "have to do" as things you "want to do."  If nothing else, you can enter into the proper spirit by recognizing that you at least will be happy to have done it.

In Lichtenbergian terms, I think it is even more important that your go-to TASK AVOIDANCE options are things that give you pleasure.  For example, my labyrinth/back yard will always need work done: grass mowed, leaves raked, ivy trimmed, weeds pulled — and I love doing it. Keeping the labyrinth in good shape is a pleasure; if it weren't, I'd rip the whole thing out and let the squirrels take over.

On the other side of the coin, my study is generally a wreck.  It does not bother me, nor does it bother me that other people might be bothered by it.  I don't clean it up just because someone else (even someone else inside my head) wants it to be clean.  I'll clean it up when I need it to be clean, and then that cleaning up serves my purposes, be it to ritually close out a project or to clear the decks for a new one.

The point is that even your TASK AVOIDANCE should be something that creates a positive atmosphere for you. You like your house to be clean? Unless you can afford to pay someone else to do it, then cleaning your house is something you want to do. (And if you pay someone else to do it, then giving up that money is something you want to do.)  Washing the dishes is something you want to do. Mowing the yard is something you want to do.

Writing that next chapter is something you want to do.