How to deal with dread?

Some context and clarification:

In work (and sometimes in life) I'll find myself absolutely dreading doing some unpleasant task that needs to be done. Be it a painful deliverable or something I'm not sure I can complete in time / correctly, I sometimes find myself feeling physically sick leading up to the task.

I think one aspect that I need to attack is coming from a "school" mindset into a real-world mindset - in school if you didn't complete a task or an assignment, you took the F or zero and it went away. In real life, the problem just compounds until it is dealt with or you get taken out by it.

Given this is something that is not going away, and I don't want to feel nauseous / a sense of lingering doom all the time, I'd love to hear if anyone has similar experiences/methods of working through this.

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I have clinical depression and have to deal with this all the time. I dread doing a lot of day-to-day tasks. My long term goal is to get some assistant to do all of these things I hate for a price. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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