Eat The Frog

Eat The Frog.

If you’ve never heard this phrase before, you’re probably thinking, ‘What the f*ck is this guy waffling about?’.

And I get it.

But if you’re a procrastinator and implement what I’m about to tell you, this simple change will REINVENT the way you approach your day-to-day life.

Imagine yourself on a normal day in your life, with your work and everything else as normal.

But you have now been given the additional task of eating a frog at some point during that day.

When do you eat the frog? In principle, it doesn’t matter.

You just HAVE to eat a frog before you go to bed.

When do you eat it? At the start? During? Right at the end of the day?

Now this is the question that Brian Tracy answers in his book ‘Eat That Frog!’ with a vivid piece of advice he gained from Mark Twain.

“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.”

Now, track this back to your daily life and how you approach tasks each day.

It’s in our human nature to procrastinate doing the hardest tasks for as long as we physically can.

If you got handed a project or homework at school when you were younger, if you were like most, you’d put off doing it for as long as you possibly could.

And the same goes for our day-to-day lives.

The task we know is the hardest is the one we tend to put off doing the most.

And that’s where the philosophy of ‘eating the frog’ comes into fruition.

Whatever the hardest task is for you to do, whether that be in your day, your to-do list, or in your business, THAT is the one you need to tackle first.

Otherwise, you’re creating a mental blockade throughout your life that doesn’t need to be there—simply by worrying about the idea of doing a task that you could have gotten out of the way before you did anything else, handing yourself unnecessary stress.

Get the hardest task out of the way first, and then it’ll ALWAYS be downhill from there.

Until the next hard task arises, that is.

Oli.