Strange advice coming from a vegetarian! This is a book recommendation – Eat that frog! by Brian Tracy. A very good approach that emphasises the need for action orientation and getting your worst tasks out of the way first each day. The principle is if you had to eat a frog every day of your life, when would be the best time to do it? And if it were a very ugly frog?
From an emotional intelligence perspective this is all about self management – getting your head in gear, getting your emotions in gear and then, importantly, getting your arse in gear. Action orientation. Just doing it.
The book helps you to identify what’s important for you, what keeps you ahead of your game. There’s no doubt for me to continue my specialism of emotional intelligence, I need to be widely read and widely experienced in a wide range of associated areas to facilitate that learning in my client groups. How often do I prioritise reading each day? I don’t prioritise it. I buy books that interest me and read them when I can, but my action orientation doesn’t see reading as the important task that it is in my life.
So, my not so ugly frog that I’ll be crunching on for the foreseeable, is reading. A1 priority task on a daily basis, then I’ll carry on the rest of the day, inspired, with a sense of achievement and a good level of personal satisfaction.