Well, friends, today, we ate a live frog. And tomorrow we intend to eat another one.
But before you call PETA, let us explain what we mean.
We’re reading a book right now called Eat That Frog: 21 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy, and it’s been such a great reminder to stay vigilant when it comes to productivity.
Tracy’s book is built around an old quote from Mark Twain where he famously said, “Eat a live frog every morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
we all have “frogs” in our life
At first glance, planning out a daily to-do list might seem like a time-sucker, but in actuality, it’s a momentum builder. Every minute spent planning saves up to ten minutes in execution, which means the average person can save up to two hours of work time per day, just by being organized and intentional.
To organize our “frogs” and all of our other to-do tasks, we use Trello, which is a visual to-do list that’s totally free to use. We each have separate boards with our own to-dos, and then organize our lists by “Urgent” and “On-Going.” The thing we love abut Trello is that we can drag, drop and re-arrange our tasks as much as we want, which means we get to constantly evaluate and prioritize the most important thing. And when we think of something else we have to do while we’re in the middle of the task, we throw it on Trello and forget about it until we’re done with our current task. The biggest “frog” always gets moved to the top of the urgent list, and we work our way down from there. It’s been such a helpful tool for us the last year or two that now we can’t imagine getting anything done without it! We’ve had so much more success eating our “frogs.”
So tomorrow, we hope you’ll ask yourselves the same question we asked ourselves this morning: “What is my frog?”