We carry them around like heavy luggage every day. You see the way these things work is that we constantly procrastinate on all of lives burdens and they build up in our minds. I can help you fix this problem but you better get a new notebook because I bet if you’re like me you have hundreds of frogs to kiss. Once you kiss that frog, you’re a little freer, you have less weight on your shoulders and you are free to move on to the next thing without the burden of kissing that frog hanging over you. When it comes to things we don’t want to do, agonizing over it is almost always worse than actually doing it. You’d probably freak out a bit, spit and complain LOUDLY, but it would be over in a minute, well really 3 seconds TOPS! 3 seconds that you spent 364 days agonizing over, A year of stress for something that took less than a minute. Think about it, when you finally forced yourself to kiss that frog, you’d pucker up and give it a big long wet kiss right on the slimy skin of his back. It’s human nature we put off what we don’t want to do till the last possible moment. If you had a year to do it you would probably do it on day 365, the very last day of the year. Imagine for a minute that you really had to kiss a frog, imagine it was on your You’d probably put it off as long as humanly possible, schedule it out for a year in the future. We move away from them and try to avoid them at all costs. I call them frogs because they are things we don’t even want to touch. These hard to accomplish tasks, whether they are personal like getting a haircut, or an oil change for your car, or business things like giving a performance review, or calling a client to tell them you are sorry for a mistake you made. Wasted time and agreed upon priorities not getting done. Since this is happening in the senior leadership team, the creme de la creme in our company, I’m sure it’s happening in team meetings throughout the company and that sucks. They get discussed each week during our huddle and the due date gets pushed out further and further but they don’t get done. The problem is some of those who, what , whens never seem to get done. By assigning a “who” and a “when” to each “what” we make someone accountable to the task and we have assigned a deadline to it. In our company, we have an accountability sheet We call it the “Most of the tasks relate to the 6 core functions in our business. You know all the things on your to-do list that never seem to get done? The stuff you push off every day because something more important gets in the way, or at least that’s what you keep telling yourself and your co-workers, clients or employers. One of my favorite Peter Gabriel songs is “Kiss that Frog” and today I want to urge you all to start each day by kissing that frog … although I pretty sure my advice is a little different than Peters. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | More Every idea and instruction in this book has been tested and proven in the crucible of real-life experiences, both by the authors and by the millions of other people worldwide whose lives have been positively affected by these simple principles.Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 12:46 - 12.0MB) These ideas are presented in an easily digestible form that goes directly to the root of the reasons why people feel negatively about themselves and about various factors in their lives. The ideas in this book are based on more than a hundred years of writing and research in psychology and psychotherapy. ‘This wonderful, uplifting book shows you how to release negatives and become a completely positive person.’–Harvey Mackay, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive‘If your memories of yesterday are greater than your dreams for tomorrow, read this book and watch your life turn around, and experience more joy and happiness as a result.’–Todd Duncan, New York Times bestselling author of Time TrapsThis book contains a series of practical, proven, easy-to-apply ideas and strategies that anyone can use to change their thinking from negative to positive.
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