Yeah, I caused myself a lot of misery by trying to follow the “eat the frog first” strategy, and get the big important stuff out the way before the easy / less critical things. Just led to me wasting days not doing the big thing, and all the little things were snowballing into much larger problems.
Now I go with “put the frog on your plate” - I tell myself honestly that the important task should be top of my list, and then proceed to avoid it by doing all the other shit. Sure, I have to deal with the problems of leaving something important til the last minute (and they are numerous) but at least everything else isn’t also on fire.
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Yeah, I caused myself a lot of misery by trying to follow the “eat the frog first” strategy, and get the big important stuff out the way before the easy / less critical things. Just led to me wasting days not doing the big thing, and all the little things were snowballing into much larger problems.
Now I go with “put the frog on your plate” - I tell myself honestly that the important task should be top of my list, and then proceed to avoid it by doing all the other shit. Sure, I have to deal with the problems of leaving something important til the last minute (and they are numerous) but at least everything else isn’t also on fire.
What about this: do one small thing, then do one part of the big thing, then repeat until the big thing is done.
in general the only way to do big things is to carve the frog into smaller pieces
The problem is not how to carve the frog into smaller bits
The problem is, how do i get my mind to stop looking at the entire frog
carve the frog, put one piece on your plate and the others in the fridge
Mmyeh, I had frog legs once, it wasn’t my thing