I sometimes feel like that I think. I'm retired so can do whatever I want but resent having to do "chores" instead of just staying here on the computer and doing what I like, working on my websites and courses. But I realize it's all in my head, I can do what I like whenever I like, but I like having a clean kitchen too :-) I'm usually okay once I'm working on a chore and focused on it. It's my imagination that gets the best of me and imagines what "work" will be like and that I won't like it, etc.

Think about making your bed (or something similar) and how it doesn't matter; you do it and have to keep redoing it each day (dishes are like that). But then I remember when I don't make my bed and obsess over having not made it and what a slob I am, etc. for a long time and then eventually it gets made and it's like the obsession/problem was never there.

When we're reading and writing and working on the things we "like" to do, why think about those other things, just like when we're doing the other, don't think about what you're missing with the reading/writing. Each thing should have it's own focus and not have its worth taken away by some other.