How do you manage your time? Perhaps by eating the frog, which means “to do the most distasteful task first.” This is also known as “carrying guts to a bear.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Eating the Frog”
Grant, have you heard of that time management strategy called eating the frog?
No. What is that?
It has to do with doing the most distasteful task first thing in the morning.
So you get it out of the way. You just take the bull by the horns and you eat the frog.
Eating the frog?
Yeah, I like it.
But I found a variation of that recently.
Carry guts to a bear.
Oh, that’s even nicer.
I thought you would like this, Grant.
You like that kind of thing.
It means to do the most rudimentary or distasteful task first.
You’re eating the wrong things.
I’m vegetarian.
I don’t know why I’m even talking about this.
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