When I run courses on project management (PM) the image of the elephant is often used. How to Eat an Elephant describes the PM process of breaking a seemingly impossibly big task down into smaller 'bite-sized', more manageable chunks. That's what we need to do for other workplace tasks, especially those we procrastinate over. By breaking something down into its constituent elements it becomes more manageable and less daunting.
The Ugly Frog
It was Mark Twain that said
"if you eat a live frog first thing in the morning, then nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day"
Since this quote was first coined the idea of the frog and time management have been forever linked.
In my earlier blogs we looked at the notion of prime time and down time and this is where the ugly frog comes in. This frog is used as the pictorial representation of the task you really don't want to do and therefore put off...after all who wants to eat a frog, let alone an ugly one!
So, in terms of effective time management the task we should undertake first in our prime time is the ugly frog.
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