These tasks ask you for something routine work never does: a judgement. In a quote you set a price, and that price can be turned down. In your bookkeeping you see figures you might not like.
Almost everything else in your business gives you an answer straight away. The email is answered, the delivery has gone out, the team's question is settled. A quote gives you back nothing but an open question at first: will the customer say yes?
So you do everything else first. You're not working less. You're working on whatever answers you quickly. Hard work isn't the problem. The order is.
Read the full article: https://impruvement.com/blog/procrastination-in-your-business-why-its-always-quotes-and