Re: Undefined projects
It sounds like you have to archive a lot of stuff into an already-designed system. It's going to take a long time because there's a lot of it, there's no deadline to compel you, and you don't enjoy doing it.
(First be sure that there is no unidentified next action, something that needs to be done first. Make sure you know exactly how to start filing.)
Then, try as many motivational tricks as necessary until the job is done.
1) As another poster suggested, break it up into small doable chunks. The action "filing" is quite accurate, but SOUNDS as if it will take a long, indeterminate amount of time. You won't even want to start. "File 15 minutes" or "File 2 inches (stack of paper)" are likely to be more motivating.
2) Set a self-deadline to finish. Hopefully, there's someone besides yourself who wanted this done and assigned it to you. They really should have given you an incentive or deadline, but since they didn't, impose it yourself. First, spend some time filing so that you can more accurately estimate how long it will take, total. Then add 50% to your estimated time, and announce to someone that you will complete it by then.
3) Make a little chart to document your progress. You could document the amount of time spent, estimated percentage completed, etc.
4) Do a predetermined amount of filing at the very first opportunity you get in the day. This trick has worked well for me; as soon as I get to my desk with time that I can decide how to use, I look at my list of actions, and pick the most undesirable/hardest/highest-procrastination-factor action. What do I LEAST want to do? Do it now.
I have a similar situation with filing, at home. I have implemented one of the above suggestions, with some success, but I'm still not done either. Maybe I'll try some of my other suggestions! I AM getting sick of seeing that stuff!
anderson