That’s the thing about challenges, they vary by time and situation. Most of the times, they are succinctly involved with our lives making it hard for us to distinguish them as a challenge. And once meeting them repeatedly it becomes a routine to face them that someday we forget how difficult they were in the beginning days.
The biggest challenge in my life was “beginning”. For some reasons, it was always difficult for me to BEGIN. Right from school, I go home carrying a lot of ideas and plans from the classes to later execute at home. As far as I can trace my memory I have no recollection on how I spend those post-class evenings, mostly I while away my time (but again with a long list of to-do’s).Finally, it was in college I actually realize that this reluctance to begin was a huge threat to my progress. I used to metaphor the ‘starting’s’ with ‘ignition’. Starting’s has always been difficult (or at least it needs energy) – be it a scooter or a rocket.
It was the book “Eat that Frog” by Brian Tracy that changed my way of doing things. The edition I read had 21 chapters on how to approach our tasks and eventually our lives.
Tracy addresses “tasks” as frogs - big and ugly frogs. So first, eat them. Eat the frogs, in our language “eat the tasks” first place in the morning. The books also talks about organizing our time-table, email inbox, weekly goals, monthly goals and our yearly goals.
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