Start your day by eating a live frog

This is famous author Mark Twain’s success advice: “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” This roughly translates to: Do your biggest, most daunting tasks first.

When you start your workday by tackling a big project (frog), the rest of the day becomes less daunting.

From the best-selling time-management book, Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy, Gina Trapani unpacks the frog strategy.

Choose your frog

When you have chosen your frog for the next day, write it down on a piece of paper that you’ll see when you arrive at your office.
Write down the tasks you need to complete the following day at the end of each day
Look at the list when you arrive at work the next day.
At the end of each day, create a list for the next day.

And keep repeating.