Eat the frog

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As Mark Twain once said “If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.”

The frog is that one thing you have on your to-do list that you have absolutely no motivation to do and that you’re most likely to procrastinate on. Eating the frog means to just do it, otherwise the frog will eat you meaning that you’ll end up procrastinating it the whole day.

Once that one task is done, the rest of the day will be an easier ride and you will get both momentum and a sense of accomplishment at the beginning of your day.

morning means you will tackle it with a clearer mind, probably a quiet office and while your willpower is at its strongest.

Renew and revitalize your most precious connections.

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When bad feelings occur in our close relationships, we tend to put off the work required to make things right. We always assume we’ll have another chance . . . later. That’s understandable, but it’s a mistake. Feeling resentful toward the people we love, or once loved, feeling distant from them, erodes our own happiness.

A brush with death often instills in us a newfound appreciation for the gift of life. Simple pleasures—a cup of tea, sunshine on one’s face, the voices of our children—feel like miracles. When we’ve had a close call that shakes us up, the anger we’ve felt toward people closest to us no longer seems significant. Ill will dissolve in love, appreciation, and affection, and we recognize the urgency of mending, tending, and celebrating our relationships.

A deep, natural drive to connect with others lies at the heart of what it means to be human. That can help you discover opportunities to enliven all your important relationships—with your children, parents, relatives, and close friends. You need not wait until towards an end. By taking the time and by caring enough to express forgiveness, gratitude, and affection, you can renew and revitalize your most precious connections.

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Moving the needle

Moving the needle refers to doing a couple things every day that truly matter.

Notice the key theme? Moving the needle often means actually doing those things we don’t want to do. Notice the other theme? They’re always tasks, projects, opportunities that will move your business, your career, or your personal life forward – the things that matter.

When we move the needle we experience the momentum to move ever closer to a goal.

Start today. Sit down, and make a complete list of things that will move the needle – the things you’ve been avoiding, dreading, putting off for days or weeks. The things that matter.

And, then, go do them.

Do this every morning, You’ll start moving the needle like you’ve never done before.

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Eat that frog: How do I spot the frog?

The frog is that one thing you have on your to-do list that you have absolutely no motivation to do and that you’re most likely to procrastinate on. Eating the frog means just do it, otherwise, the frog will eat you meaning that you’ll end up procrastinating it the whole day. Once that one task is done, the rest of the day will be an easier ride and you will get both momentum and a sense of accomplishment at the beginning of your day.

There are always some tasks we would like to tick off of our to-do list as soon as possible and that if accomplished would help us feel better, but are just so unmotivating to do. We usually wait until the end of the day to tackle them, often realizing we do not have any more time to do them today and pushing them on the to-do list for the day after. This builds pressure and stress. Indeed, those things end up weighing on our mind, becoming moment after moment heavier and heavier and preventing us to really acc4omplish something during the day.

If you want to identify the frog in your list of tasks, divide your to-do list into 4 categories:

Things you don’t want to do, but actually need to do.
Things you want to do and actually need to do.
Things you want to do, but actually don’t need to do.
Things you don’t want to do, and actually don’t need to do.

The frog is the Thing you don’t want to do, but actually need to do.

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Eat that frog

“If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.”

Mark Twain

Eating that frog, or finishing off that huge task, is never a simple affair, and quite often we tend to postpone it only for that reason. We postpone it till the frog becomes a monstrous creature that begins to threaten us with unpleasant consequences. And before we know it, there isn’t one frog but many hopping around us.

At times, the challenge lies in also not being able to recognise which is the task to be handled first. The question to ask ourselves is how do we prioritise? If there are multiple tasks which demand our attention, how do we know which is the one to be tackled first. A lot of this comes with experience, especially in the work environment. But it is also about plain, old-fashioned, common sense.

The frog is that one thing you have on your to-do list that you have absolutely no motivation to do and that you’re most likely to procrastinate on. Eating the frog means to just do it, otherwise the frog will eat you meaning that you’ll end up procrastinating it the whole day.

Once that one task is done, the rest of the day will be an easier ride and you will get both momentum and a sense of accomplishment at the beginning of your day.