Eat that frog!
One simple, but powerful strategy for helping prioritize what is important, get it done, and even change how you feel about yourself...
Put it into practice!
- most important work that needs to be done for your success.
- thing you're dreading.
- project that can't be done (well!) in one sitting.
- Today, right now, what is your "frog" and why? (What have you been putting off)?
- Record in your planner the next 2 hr. block of time you can work on it.
- What's the very first thing you'll do to get started?
- It shrinks it into smaller, less stressful steps.
- When you "Swiss cheese" the task, you "punch a hole in it" to get going.
- The time taken might be the same in the end, but it feels easier.
- Get a system (paper planner, app, or hybrid).
- Start by creating 2-3 hr. blocks of scheduled study time every day.
- Cultivate a daily habit of identifying your frog and breaking it down.
- Gets the most important work done.
- Builds your feeling that you can do this ("self-efficacy").
- Can even change how you see yourself ("self concept").