Short YouTube advice clip by Sachin Patel encouraging listeners to tackle their hardest, most-avoidant task first ("eat the frog"), citing Brian Tracy and the phrase "the obstacle is the way." He compares doing the hard task first to taking a cold shower: getting it done early makes the rest of the day feel easier and provides a large sense of progress ("you've tackled, like, 50% of the day").
Yeah, I think Brian Tracy calls that eating the frog. So it's the thing that you don't want to do the most, is probably the thing that you need to get done, and probably the thing that will move the needle the most as well. Either creating new business or closing a door or whatever it is. The obstacle is the way, as they say. So just get out there and get it done. And if you can do it first thing in the morning and you tackle that hard thing first thing in the morning, kind of like a cold shower, Right. If you do a cold shower first in the morning, the rest of the day seems pretty easy. So if you can fire off that email or. Or check that task off your list that you've been putting off, you already feel like you you've tackled, like, 50% of the day.
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