No Limits: The Art and Science of High Performance

by Mukesh Bansal

Performance Hack #18: Eat Your Frog First Sounds disgusting, right? But this might be the single most important change you can make to your daily schedule to perform at optimum productivity. Mark Twain famously said that if the first thing you do in the morning is eat a live frog, then the worst thing that could possibly happen to you that day is already behind you. The frog, in this analogy, is your most important task. It might seem frightful and impossible, and something you may have been dreading and putting off for weeks. But if you can make sure this task is the very first thing you attack in your day, you will find that it isn’t as bad as you thought and is quite doable. And once you’ve eaten that frog, you will be filled with a sense of accomplishment that will drive you to complete the rest of your to-do list.