Joke's on you, I prioritize the big task first, and still don't work on it, so nothing gets done!
this post was submitted on 12 May 2025
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Yeah, I caused myself a lot of misery by trying to follow the "eat the frog first" strategy, and get the big important stuff out the way before the easy / less critical things. Just led to me wasting days not doing the big thing, and all the little things were snowballing into much larger problems.
Now I go with "put the frog on your plate" - I tell myself honestly that the important task should be top of my list, and then proceed to avoid it by doing all the other shit. Sure, I have to deal with the problems of leaving something important til the last minute (and they are numerous) but at least everything else isn't also on fire.
What about this: do one small thing, then do one part of the big thing, then repeat until the big thing is done.
in general the only way to do big things is to carve the frog into smaller pieces
The problem is not how to carve the frog into smaller bits
The problem is, how do i get my mind to stop looking at the entire frog
carve the frog, put one piece on your plate and the others in the fridge
Mmyeh, I had frog legs once, it wasn't my thing
Oh no, where did the light blue task go??! PANIK
The light blue task represented making a list of tasks to do
That’s the task you forgot about until the deadline passed 😌
It got done! How can anybody be so cruel?
Bold off you to assume I'll make progress on the small tasks while I procrastinate on the big one.
What's the original link?
I cannot seem to find this exact one, but this is the creators website https://safelyendangered.com/