5 Unconventional Tips to Make Hard Tasks Easier

Sometimes the best way to move a boulder is by walking away

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All was good in the world.

Until it wasn’t.

I’d just started a new sales job a few months prior, and after hundreds of rejections, I’d finally begun to catch some green lights and a few clients were getting close to closing.

Within an hour of arriving at the office though, I got hit by a string of lightning bolts in rapid succession. Not only did I receive word a deal I’d been working on for three weeks was dead in the water, but I was also on the verge of losing the only other one I had going.

“Michael!” my manager said when he heard me cursing around the office, “Get out of here and go do something that doesn’t make you feel worse!”

My manager was a quirky guy. But he seemed to be doing alright for himself so I asked him to explain his confusing advice —

“The key to getting out of a funk isn’t always found by doing something that lights us up but rather doing one thing that makes us feel slightly less miserable. Go grab some air. I guarantee when you come back you won’t feel…