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RE: Win 500 Steem Power for 4 weeks in my Get Shit Done Contest

in #contest7 years ago

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.

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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!