Last year, in an article for The Wall Street Journal, the writer Chris Colin put forward a potential answer: hosting an “admin night” for your friends. open image in gallery Having someone close by who is also getting on with admin can keep you focused ( Getty/iStock )I am a prime candidate for an “admin party”. The potential advantages of an “admin party” are manifold, as psychotherapist Eloise Skinner tells me. If I’d allocated some time over the weekend to focus on tedious tasks on my own, there’s a very high chance that I’d have shrugged it off and finished watching Heated Rivalry instead. That’s a job for admin night 2.0.