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Eat That Mother F..... Frog

The Frog.

Moving back to America.

I am currently moving back to America after spending five years overseas. Moving is hard anyway. Moving over an ocean with a family has an undescribable difficulty level. It has been done by many people before me, and will be done by many more after. None of that takes away from the personal stress of having to do it. And then to add complexity to the issue, I decided to buy a house.

A thousand things to do.

As with any move there are many things that need to be done. While still overseas, I need to worry about everything from closing out with the current landlord, shipping cars, insuring all the utilities are going to be paid, ensuring my current organisation has everything they need for me, and have a temporary place to stay before I fly out. And of course I am simultaneously doing all the paperwork required to buy a house back in the States. To accomplish everything, I need to rely on many people and things I don't have control over.

Doing the hardest thing first.

Why wait until the end of the day when you have the least amount of energy, tolerance, and patience and attempt to accomplish the most difficult task you've been putting off? The question sounds insane, but we seem to do it all the time. I will confess that even trying to complete this blog post has been difficult for me. Not because writing it is hard but finding the moment where my mind is focused enough to think through what I want to say. Or at least this is the excuse I give myself when I really just want to watch some TV.

The solution to being ultra productive is to eat the freaking frog. This means to not do what you want to do, but focus on what you need to do with the intention of specifically doing the one thing you absolutely don't want to do. The brilliants in accomplishing such a task early in the day is that it makes the rest of the day easy. And when you do this every day it makes the week easy. In the end, my transition back to the States has been ridiculously easy because every day I chose to do the hardest thing first.

Smoothest move ever.

So here I am waiting in the airport terminal to eventually fly out without a single stress in the world. I'm actually looking forward to the 9 hour flight because the lack of stress. Stress makes us lose awareness of the possibilities in each moment and reduces life. Right now, I am content and ready to take advantage any opportunities that may come.

Here is the moral of the story; choose to live a principle-based life and focus on what you need to do and not how you feel. By overcoming our Animal Instincts to be lazy we obtain dominion over ourselves and the world.

-Stay Savage

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