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Well I have a work in progress that I have been doing it started about seven months ago but it was something I have been putting off for a decade this is awesome though and I'm glad to see you doing a contest to help motivate people I upvoted and resteemed for the great idea and I also followed you hope to see more great stuff like this

Dude this is awesome! Pushing people to always find that inner strength! Love it brother- Ive decided after sitting on it for a while to begin two different projects.

First is the Gaming community, as there seems to be no huge community on steemit for gaming yet.
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@bambam808/introducing-g-s-gamers-its-still-the-1st-week-spotlight-hots-blizzard-vlog-ep-003-do-you-feel-that-its-the-ice-cold-hand-of

Second is the new satirical/humorous news show Aristobrats Hourly (may be renaming. weighing pros and cons)
https://steemit.com/whaleshares/@bambam808/straight-from-the-vault-aristobrats-hourly-rare-interview-w-kai-the-cryptosurfer-about-whaleshares-and-more

Hope all is well @themarkeymark

This reminds me of the Naval Officer who gave a commencement speech at the University of Texas a few years ago. There is a video out there somewhere of it. The gist of it was to start your day by making your bed. By doing so you have accomplished your first task of the day. With the first task over you now have the confidence to conquer the rest before you that day. If the day goes bad you will always come home to a nice made bed. Look for the video everyone it is quite special.

awesome contest. have resteemed - i would like to enter this...lets see if i can make time

this is a really terrific idea for a contest. Now I just have to think about what is the ugliest frog in my life. I will be back once I figure that out and eat it! Definitely following you for the upcoming workflow series. Cheers - Carl (gnashster)

Awesome!

This is my first contest, so bear with me. I'm excited to see what you guys do!

So I've named my frogs. As I understand the rules of the game, a frog must be: something I don't routinely do, something that will move me forward towards a big goal, and something I am avoiding/procrastinating.

There are many small frogs but three big ones. They are:

  1. clean the house (sounds routine, but it isn't, and therin lies the problem),
  2. relaunch Whole Self In, and
  3. write the org chart and job descriptions for my aikido dojo which I recently inherited.

I had to sit with my frogs a while. They squirm. Clean The House kept clamoring to go first, so I had to ask about the cost of commitment. If I clean first, when will I do the other things? What will be the cost of delay? Then I noticed Dojo Org Chart hiding in the back. The fattest and wartiest of all. The one I tell myself I don't know how to do, or don't have time to do, because I'm afraid of the response from existing team members.

The funny thing about ignoring a frog is, it becomes your natural state. You get used to ignoring it, and its hard to even see that it's there.

OK, I have swallowed one frog. I feel like I just swallowed one, too. It laid baby frogs and I'm gonna have to deal with them, but they ought to be easier. For example, I need to type my hand-scrawled org chart into a readable format and share it with my team, and more importantly I need to write the job descriptions for both the jobs already being done and the ones I'd like people to do.
org chart draft.jpg
The image might show why this is a frog for me. Two red dots indicates I do the job entirely in my business. One red dot means I have help, but things still tend not to get done without me. No wonder I feel like I have no time!

Oh! I almost forgot to thank @themarkymark too. Thank you bro for believing in this community, and providing ur quota to make it grow. The newbies appreciates you more.

This is an awesome contest.

resteem and upvote.... Check!!

Resteemed, love the idea. I will do my best to make it in time!

I have done it! I dedicated most of the day to the cleaning of the ugliest and most ignored giant banana cluster on the farm, and most of the night writing the article and uploading pictures. We achieved flow! And everybody on the farm got involved, check it out here:

https://steemit.com/sustainability/@ecoinstant/cleaning-the-giant-banana-plant-and-eating-the-ugly-frog-first

Thanks for the motivation!

That's procrastination speaking, you got a week, you can do it!

Yes! I will eat that ugly toad!