Eat a Frog

There is no getting around it:  getting fit happens one day at a time, one workout session at a time, one decision at a time.  When we break down the steps to your success, the smallest unit to deal with is your decision to just do the workout.   Either you do it or you procrastinate until the day is over and it is never accomplished.  You need help to get it done!  And that requires eating a live frog.

In his book, Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy defines your frog as the most important task on your to-do list. This is the task which, when finished, will have a profound impact on your day and your life.  After eating this frog, you will feel confident, energized and ready to tackle the next thing.  Frog-eating creates momentum which will carry you through the rest of your day reaching goal after goal.

However, not only is this task the most important, it may be the task that is hardest and most prone to being put-off:  that is why he calls it a live frog.  I know that establishing the habit of regular workouts can be challenging.  Sometimes it is the hardest, most difficult thing you have to do all day.  But what happens when we procrastinate with a task?  It hangs over our heads, drains our energy, and lowers our productivity:  we stare at that frog all day rather than just eating it and moving on.

High-achieving people know that starting each day by eating a live frog puts you on the fast track to success.  Once you establish the habit of jumping into your workout each morning, that frog will be more and more appealing, until it isn’t a frog at all!  You will crave the physical and mental exhilaration that it brings, as well as the trajectory of achievement that it puts you on for the whole day.

Decide to be action-oriented and eat a frog!  Before you know it you will reach your goal of getting fit!