It took me years to see I was overcomplicating focus.
I kept telling myself I wasn’t focused.
But I didn’t really know why.
Then, I learned how to swallow frogs.
Not actual frogs — unfortunately, I get a bit creeped out by those little green suckers.
Eating that frog, coined by Brian Tracy, means tackling the highest-leverage, most important task first.
I saw that I was procrastinating because I had icky feelings about the stuff worth doing.
I have a book to write…
But I’ll do that other thing first.
I’ll play Sudoku.
That’s fun and low-effort.
Nice.
But still, no book done.
But swallowing the frog means doing the thing you know you need to do.
You know what’s worth doing.
It’s in your gut.
You will have instant focus when you do the highest priority thing NEXT.
It’s just that we try to cheat focus and wonder why we don’t have any.
It’s the resistance that leads to a lack of focus.
