I stopped reading at "I AM SO PASSIONATE ABOUT THESE SPREADSHEETS" because as an engineer by training, I find spending hours debating and crafting Office docume

I stopped reading at "I AM SO PASSIONATE ABOUT THESE SPREADSHEETS" because as an engineer by training, I find spending hours debating and crafting Office documents with equally very senior people who can go to almost extreme lengths to avoid saying "I don't know" (how to deal with an issue, or sometimes, even, how to change font formatting) to be soul-crushing and utterly abhor the fact that they seem to take up most of your time as your career progresses. I do agree about making chores routine work, though. After a while your brain starts being able to do things in parallel and you breeze through the annoyances while pondering actually interesting things--the only caveat is that in a chaotic organization it becomes really hard to establish a routine, and thus all the habit forming effort you put into work may be widely off the mark. So if you are having trouble with motivation _and_ discipline, the problem may not actually lie with you (alone).