🌻Why I spend three minutes every morning eating frogs (major productivity hack)

Every morning I sit down and plan the day.

This means writing down the five or six priorities that I will check off as I go through the day.

I noticed, over time, that I would often get frustrated at the growing number of tasks that kept showing up on a new list day after day.

The same things.

Often these were things like marketing my work, or writing, that I knew I needed to do daily…

But I still allowed a day to go by without doing it.

The guilt and annoyance of avoiding my important tasks — only to do what was either fun or seemingly urgent — would build inside me.

Over time, with more and more avoidance of the key tasks, my business contracted, and I had little substance to show for most days.

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I needed a better system.

I needed to swallow that frog.

To quote the words of productivity maestro Brian Tracy, eating that frog means doing the most challenging and/or important tasks FIRST rather than doing what most of us do, focusing on the urgent (or procrastinate, or only do the easy stuff).

Now, I bring more awareness to what’s important in my day, but I also make doing that (often more difficult, initially) task as EASY as possible.

The way I do this is to commit to just three minutes (3) in action on that thing, be it reaching out to prospects or writing my novel.

Three minutes.

That’s it. Without any pressure on me to do any more than that.

And the cool thing is…

I find myself enjoying the task a lot more often than not because I’m freaking IN the task now, and I don’t want to stop.

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Life Hack Achievement Unlocked!

Start the day with the important things. The stuff that you would be proud you did when you’re on your death bed.

The thing that’s been bugging you.

Do it. Do it for three minutes. Do it every day.

And watch your life transform.

Later.

CONTRIBUTED BY Alex Mathers

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