Excuse Me but Why Are You Eating So Many Frogs

Oftentimes people get the advice that you have to rely on discipline. ... one of the things that I find is that discipline requires a lot of push, right? “I’m very disciplined about my workout. I’m really going to push it.” Motivation is a pull. It is something that is internal that fuels you, that drives you. A number of the people that I tend to ... See more

If you’re procrastinating from writing that speech you’ve got coming up, it might not necessarily be that you just aren’t disciplined enough to prepare for it. There might be something else going on under the surface that’s holding you back, and the discipline narrative doesn’t care about what it is. It just makes you feel bad about yourself. In th

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All of this has been a long way of saying: if you’re forcing yourself to eat frogs all day, maybe you need a vacation, or better pay, or some help organizing your life. But maybe you what you really need is to stop eating frogs.