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.

Look Daddy, I can fly!

As a young child we believe we can do and be anything we want, we literally believe we can fly. We live in the moment and struggle to differentiate between reality and make believe. This beautiful period is called the Imprint Period and lasts until the age of about 7-8. Throughout this period we are absorbing information around us like a sponge and storing it at an unconscious level where it later influences our beliefs and values. We also develop what is termed a critical faculty. The critical faculty separates the conscious and unconscious minds and acts as a reality checker based on the information we have absorbed during the Imprint Period (explaining why children tend to stop having imaginary friends around age 7 or 8).

Our senses are constantly bombarded with approximately 2 million bits of information, such as sights, noise, tastes and background noise. If we took notice of all this information, we would go insane. Our brain therefore sorts through this information based on our experiences, values, beliefs etc to provide us with our own perception of the world. Have you ever bought a new car and then suddenly seen the same make or colour of car on EVERY street corner after that? Your unconscious is sorting for it!

As the Imprint Period influences our values and beliefs and then our critical faculty uses these as a point of reference for future decisions and beliefs, as adults we can be held back be our beliefs and decisions made as a young child.

For example, a mother tells a young child "you will never be a Doctor as we can't afford the University fees" the child may store this information unconsciously, as "you will never be a doctor." Over time this could develop to be "you will never have what you want in life." and influence future decisions and behaviours. The mother in this example was not meaning to be malicious and made the remark quite flippantly.

Are you making decisions based on long standing beliefs from childhood? Just think of what you can achieve if you blast through these limiting beliefs and decisions, change your focus and open yourself up to new possibilities and opportunities.

Unlock your true potential.

Spring Clean your life – Unlock your true potential!


I made a decision today to spring clean my flat and as it became tidier, it dawned on me that it had really been bothering me. We'd had family here all over Christmas and everything was out of place, untidy and dusty. Once it was cleaned, I began to look at everything in a new light. Instead of feeling anxious about my home environment, I was able to focus that energy on how we could spend our day in a more positive frame of mind and focus on more important things to do.

This really got me thinking, how often do we get held back by things that we do not even realise are doing it? The vast majority of us are carrying around excess baggage which is stopping us achieve our goals. It could be limiting decisions and beliefs, friends and family which zap our energy, stressful jobs and over commitment.

If you want to achieve your goals and really unlock your true potential then there's no better time to clear out this excess baggage than now. Just see what happens