If you’ve researched into productivity even a tiny bit, there’s a chance you encontered the Eat the Frog concept, as a prioritization technique. Eat the Frog is all about startinf the day with the tasks you dread the most doing ( the frogs ).
As you know by now, I use Habitica as a motivator to do stuff, and one of the most amazing side effects are the number of frogs I eat any given week or month.
You see, I am not a big fan of doing things I don’t like ( who is ?) nor do I believe too much in pushing myself through something. I’d usually rather convince myself that a certain task is fun or useful or a big learning process (or even batch it im the no middle of others) than push myself.to.so something I am dreading.
However, this is one of the side effects of Habitica, for most things it sort of makes the frog not as dreadful as before. I mean, what’s a frog a day, if I can make extra points and kill the bad boss on the quest faster??
I do have , however , other types of frogs. Things I commit to , usually, that I procrastinate around not doing (or that I end up not being able to) and then the whole things turns into a big poisenous frog that starts numbing my mind and turning me into an even better procrastinator than I usually am..
Whenever I see myself in a state of unproductiveness (is this a word?) where each day is worse than the last , when I am not having as much fun as I usually do, when I start getting moody.. I usually stop and ask myself “what is the one thing I know I should’ve done by now and havent yet? What am I procrastinating on?”. Even whne i am really delayed , just the fact that I get one with it OR assume I wont be able to make it is usually a really big relief and dissipates most of the clouds on my mind.
Do you have something like this? Tricks that come from knowing yourself too well?
