I'm not a big fan of hanging drywall, but I do it fairly well. This weekend brought me to the final phases of remodeling a bathroom, hanging the final pieces of drywall. I guess if you could peer deep into my subconscious you'd see a guy who doesn't like the tediousness of cutting around all of the boxe
s and pipes so he puts it off.
Ironically, once those pieces are hung, I'm stoked. Does it take radically longer than the other parts? Not really. Is it really all that painful to do the little extra it takes to make those pieces fit? Not really. So what is it that keeps the project going on and on? It's the dread of knowing its going to be tedious.
Every business has moments of tedious repetition or difficult phases that make it a challenge to get started, but once that part is over - it's back to the flow of business. I posted a listing Friday and it was gone by Saturday. The one before that sold in less than 24 hours. The one before that sold in 20 minutes. You would think that would make me zip right through my least favorite part real estate; inserting the data into the MLS.
The process of posting the listing is my drywall moment. I guess that's why I prefer working as a buyer's broker. I rarely have any listing last more two weeks (though some do), but I still hate to enter the data in the MLS. I purposely put short posting restrictions in every listing agreement so I won't get 
distracted. It's my cutting around the pipes and boxes phase of real estate. Once it's loaded, I'm stoked again.
Most folks have something they would rather not do, but often it's the one key that starts the process to a goal. A diet starts with a better eating plan. A investment program starts with setting money aside. A shiny car starts with a bucket of water and a sponge. A trip starts with starting the car. When you're faced with that tedious phase of any event - look out to the finished result. The reward is normally at the end, not at the beginning. Every phase of anything thing worth doing is important even it isn't fun.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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