Joy Cocooning - My New Method For Doing Tasks I Hate

Cause everyone's gotta do taxes.

I hate doing my book keeping.

I also really just don’t enjoy doing emails.

BUT ALAS! I am a business woman… and therefore, there are tasks that I just gotta get done.

So what’s a girl to do?

She’s got to come up with a method… of course.

That’s when I came up with “joy cocooning.”

And let me tell you.. it’s life altering.

What is Joy Cocooning?

Joy cocooning is simply the act of cocooning a task that you do not want to do around a joyful, cosy task that you do want to do.

For me, that looks like:

• painting in my sketchbook

• walking my dog

• flipping through a magazine

• writing a blog post for my substack

Basically… anything that I ENJOY.

But for you, your cocoon joys might look so different! I’d recommend making a list for yourself.

Why did this come about?

Purely because I was finding myself avoiding, or delaying tasks for daaaays. And then feeling guilty about it, which made me frustrated, and the joy was no more.

So I had to get my thinking cap on… cause it just wasn’t working for me.

After some journaling, I realised that so long as I allowed myself to do things in my day that brought me joy, it made the tasks I didn’t like doing way easier.

You see, I’d been doing it all wrong. For so so long, I crammed ALL the tasks I hated into one day.

And guess what?

That day SUCKED.

It left me frustrated, sad, bored and resentful.

Not gooood.

So instead, I’ve been trying this! Joy cocooning!

In fact, I’m doing it right now!!!

I just did some tasks that were a bit… meh. Not soul sucking, just… meh.

And now that they’re done, I got to open up my substack and write this.

Joy!

I feel cocooned in joy!

So next time you see a task on your to do list that’s giving you “meh” vibes… cocoon it! Make it a cosy little space to live between.

Let me know if it helps.

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I’m Olivia Bossert, and I help women to see them selves as the it girl that they truly are.

IT GIRL = the coolest, most badass, most embodied version of you.

I do that through brand photography, art, and pep talks and being my own version of an it girl.

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