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For those who don't know, eating the frog is about doing the worst thing on your list first. That way you get it out of the way, you have a great sense of accomplishment, and it's not 'weighing on you' for the rest of your day!

I admit i do have a very hard time with the frogs. I prefer to 'ease' my way into work with the easy, pleasant stuff, and see if i can get into a 'groove' of work-mode. In the groove, i am good at tackling the harder stuff.

That is very true, Jilly, that it can just be too overwhelming sometimes to tackle something really challenging first thing in the morning. I know I need to wake up a bit before I do difficult coding projects. So I suppose it's all about balance!

I didn’t “eat my frog” (work on my most intimidating, time consuming projects) first thing this morning. I’m writing an article about coping with disappointment and a term paper on substance abuse for a class. Instead of working on these things this morning, I waited until this evening.

As a result I STRUGGLED through two hours of writing just now. So different from a few days ago when I started my day with working on both and it was pure joy.

Ahhh…you live and learn!

Get Up Early

Well this morning something interesting happened, I started to eat my “frog” by working on my term paper for about 20 minutes or so, but then I had to stop to take care of some other things.

When I got back to the paper this evening, it wasn’t as much of a struggle as it was the day before yesterday when I didn’t start on it all until that night.

So moral of the story if you can’t eat the whole frog in the morning, at least take a bite.