Productivity: Eat That Frog!
By Candyce Carden A writer’s time is a valuable commodity. We have many diverse tasks to perform on the journey to publication, which can be paralyzing if we don’t adopt a workable system. Having a book accepted for publication created a sense of urgency on my part when it came to time management. I would soon have a book to sell! When I was working to complete my book, I didn’t feel the same urgency. I concentrated on tasks I enjoyed, like writing and creating memes, but dilly-dallied when it came to the tough ones. They were, after all, hard. Changes were in order. Increasing Productivity I recently implemented a system that is greatly increasing my productivity. All I had to do was find my frog, and eat it first. Eat That Frog! In his book Eat That Frog! author Brian Tracy writes about procrastination and managing time. For Tracy, a frog is a metaphor for identifying and attacking your most unappealing task first thing in the mor...
