My work days have gone a lot better since I started eating the Frog first.
The Frog is that important thing you really don’t want to do, the thing you’ve been avoiding because it’s going to be uncomfortable.
The Frogs in your life are what has made you an awesome procrastinator.
But eating the Frog first thing in the day has 2 beneficial effects:
Firstly, as Mark Twain once said:
“If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that it is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long”
Secondly, in my experience, the Frog never tastes that bad. What makes it a Frog isn’t the uncomfortableness (that’s definitely a word spell check!) of dealing with a task or situation. How can it be when it hasn’t happened yet?
What really makes it a Frog is the story you’ve been telling yourself about it in your head and the longer you put it off, the more detailed and real the story of discomfort becomes.
I’ll admit I still put some things off for days that I should just deal with.
But on the days when I eat the Frog first thing, they’ve never tasted as bad as I imagined (some surprisingly positive things have come from them) and the satisfaction of getting it over with has made the rest of that day a breeze.
John