Eating Frogs

I've been listening to a great audiobook on productivity and effectiveness: Eat That Frog: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy.

The main thrust is based on a Mark Twain quote, “If you eat a frog first thing in the morning, the rest of your day will be wonderful.” The idea is to get your ugliest task out of the way first thing.

I'm listening to it one chapter at a time and putting each step into practice before I move on to the next. I've been eating a lot of frogs in the past couple of weeks and have the crossed off to-do lists to prove it.

Now I'm off to plan my amphibian menu for tomorrow. Ribbit!

Comments

[Sherry Rogers]

Nice to see you post Janee! Been a while. . .

[mark heath]

On behalf of frogs, I should post a mild protest. Wouldn't spiders work just as well?

[andi butler]

wow, what a great mantra!! i'm going to remember it, and try to practice it! looks like i'll be picking up that book!! hope all's well over there!

a : )

[janee]

Spiders? Well that's just silly.

[janee]

I don't know Andi, your sugar cookies sounded much more yummy than frog-eating.
:-)

[violetismycolor]

I love this idea of doing the most disagreable thing first...then the rest of the day seems so much more pleasant! Thanks for the tip and for the book recommendation. I think I will buy a copy for each of my procrastinator children!

[Bryan B.]

I'm definitely interested in hearing how this goes for you. I need some help in this area big time. :) Have you seen this short film? It captures it really well: http://nofatclips.com/02008/08/09/procrastination/Procrastination.mp4 Warning, it's a 45 meg file. But worth every meg!

[janee]

Love that animation, Bryan. That's totally how it is, isn't it.

Eating frogs is going well so far. I feel much more focused.

Try it!!