I recently came across a funny and profound message of success.
If the first thing you do when you get up every morning is eat a live frog, you can have the satisfaction of knowing that it is probably the worst thing that will happen to you all day!
A “frog” is that action you really don’t want to do, for whatever reason, but it must be done.
Even though we may have finished up a lot of things by the end of the day, we’ve not touched that ugly, unpleasant task. Instead, we’ve busied ourselves with easier actions and we wind up feeling discouraged or incomplete.
Action – Identify your frog before you go to sleep tonight. What is something you keep avoiding? What do you keep putting off, hoping it will go away?
Eat that frog first thing in the morning and then continue with your other daily activities. I guarantee you will feel lighter and more confident.
My frog is doing the task at work that I am not sure about what I am supposed to do — rather than face it head on, I avoid, so the frog sits on my desk, starring me in the face, all day long, sometimes for over a week. Then it gets bigger, because a week later, I have to go to my manager, and ask about it. At that point, I likely should have been finished with it and onto something different.
The past 2 weeks, I have eaten frogs! Instead of avoiding, I have sent the email/made the phone call/talked to the manager – done whatever I needed to do to get the info I needed to get the task done. At the end of the day, I feel like I have moved forward in the job.
Say NO to AVOIDANCE & PROCRASTINATION — say YES to FROGS!!!!
;-))) Julienne, the frog slayer!
Julienne, the frog slayer, good for you!!