Eat Your Frog!

Do you procrastinate over things you know you really ought to do?

After days of "meaning" to do your task, do you ever say, "today is definitely the day" only to check the clock later that evening and realise you haven't done your task, again?

Eat your frog!

I found out about this concept about a month ago, and now I can't believe I hadn't thought of this sooner. Mark Twain said that suppose tomorrow morning, the first that you do, is catch a live frog, stuff it into your mouth, munch it down and swallow it all up. That is pretty much as bad as the day can get, isn't it? Therefore every morning, find the ugliest most repulsive task that you have on your to-do list (i.e. your frog) and knock that off before getting on to doing anything else. Once you’ve got that done, the rest of the day seems so easy.

Eat your frog before you do anything. If it's exercise, do it in the morning before work. If it's a work task, do it before you even check emails!

For a more in depth read on this, I would highly recommend Brian Tracy's - Eat That Frog.