"The tasks we don't want to do ... how to approach them with joyful productivity?" Think EASE.

Productivity has traditionally been associated with pushing through and forcing results. How does joyful productivity address tasks you don't want to do but feel you must — for example, cold outbound sales, and writing from a blank page? George introduced the EASE framework: E — Eliminate: Ask whether the task can simply be dropped, and what would happen if it were. A — Automate: Explore whether AI or other tools can handle the task. Describe the goal to AI rather than the specific steps, and let it find the pathway. S — Share: If automation isn't possible, delegate or co-work with someone. Body doubling (co-working on a Zoom call) is a valid form of sharing. E — En-joy: If the task truly cannot be eliminated, automated, or shared, approach it as a spiritual practice — bringing presence, meaning, and divine connection to the work. George also offered an alternative framing for the first "E" as Experiment: rather than cold calling, experiment with entirely different pathways to the same goal (e.g., content-based inbound strategies). For the blank-page writing problem, he suggested using AI as a conversational brainstorming partner — asking it to encourage a stream-of-consciousness idea dump without offering its own ideas, then having it compile the output into a finished piece. Alternatively, a 15-minute conversation with a colleague who asks questions about the topic can replace the blank-page starting point. ** My best videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKgVtpwuUQ1sziqRw_88cCzWcYAk1aik_ My socials: https://www.instagram.com/geokao https://www.linkedin.com/company/georgekao/ https://www.facebook.com/GeorgeKaoCommunity/ https://substack.com/@georgekao My email newsletter: https://www.GeorgeKao.com/email