Eat the Frog First

Have you ever been told to eat the frog first? Well that is what I am going to tell you today. Every day, we should live by the philosophy of eating the frog first.

The frog represents the hardest thing we have to do for that day. Whether it is run 5 miles to reach our exercise goal, call our boss to tell him a mistake we made at work, clean out the gutters at home, write a speech for an upcoming event, or apologize to a friend, we should always eat our frog first. Do not procrastinate it, do not delay!!

When we learn to do the most difficult thing for the day first, everything else becomes so much easier. Many people live with unnecessary worry or stress because they delay the inevitable and when they do, they voluntarily subject themselves to personal torture as they agonize over “eating the frog.” Nothing can be worse than eating a frog we have to eat except delaying and waiting and letting it ruin our whole day first before eating it! So much energy and enthusiasm for life is sucked away by us waiting to eat our frogs each day.

It is never fun to eat frogs but when we do, relief and liberation come instantly in to our life. And on some days we have many frogs to eat. On those days, we would be wise to eat the biggest and ugliest first. Once that one is out of the way, the others do not seem quite as bad. We should continue to go down the line until all the frogs are eaten. And once all the frogs are gone we can then go about our day feeling good that the hard things are over with. This will allow us to concentrate so much better and optimize the remainder of our day.

Thus we must rid ourselves of unnecessary worry and stress by eating our frog first every day. When we learn to do this, we can quickly overcome fears and perform at higher levels for the remainder of the day. Though eating frogs first is not easy, getting it out of the way for the day will help us to be better leaders and will help us more fully reach our potential. Buena petit!!