We have a tendency to avoid the hard parts. To postpone the difficult task and to procrastinate the ones that make us uncomfortable. No need to be ashamed though, that’s only a very human thing to do. Eat the frog is a technique that helps you go over that.
What it means is that pick the most anxiety bringing task from your list and do it first thing in the morning. It’s your frog, eat it.
What happens when you eat the frog is that quite often you find out that the most anxiety was gained from exaggerating the task inside your head and not from the task itself. When done, it might even feel silly to be having such a strong discomfort towards it.
Another benefit of eating the frog is that if you were honest and really picked up your hardest task to be the frog, after that everything else seems so easy.
Let’s try! I just ate mine, what’s your frog of the day?
I really love our home. It’s old white wooden floors and a high ceiling. The view, the atmosphere. Nowadays feeling comfortable at home is even more important as we spend there way more hours. Today I’ve spent the whole day doing nothing. For just once I let go of all my expectations and demands to …
Have you tried Dalgona coffee yet? It’s really heavy both on sugar and in caffein but tastes soooo good! Super simple recipe below. ♡ What you need for Dalgona coffee →
It started as a small DIY idea to do with my daughter and ended up being the quite accurate entry of the feelings right now. Kinda like Corona Diaries of this very moment.
I very aware that the text content is as important than the imagery in social media but for one reason or another, I tend to approach creating content from the imagery point of view. I haven’t even really thought about it that much, it just comes naturally. Image first and then the text. Now I’m …
Eat the frog
We have a tendency to avoid the hard parts. To postpone the difficult task and to procrastinate the ones that make us uncomfortable. No need to be ashamed though, that’s only a very human thing to do. Eat the frog is a technique that helps you go over that.
What it means is that pick the most anxiety bringing task from your list and do it first thing in the morning. It’s your frog, eat it.
What happens when you eat the frog is that quite often you find out that the most anxiety was gained from exaggerating the task inside your head and not from the task itself. When done, it might even feel silly to be having such a strong discomfort towards it.
Another benefit of eating the frog is that if you were honest and really picked up your hardest task to be the frog, after that everything else seems so easy.
Let’s try! I just ate mine, what’s your frog of the day?
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