If you have to eat a frog, it's best not to look at it too long before you do!

This was a quote I came across in my July issue of Real Simple magazine. It's by Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and father of 3 who has terminal pancreatic cancer. You may have heard about his "Last Lecture" or seen some of the many media stories about him over the past few years. This past May, Pausch made Time Magazine's list of the World's Top 100 Most Influential People. Anyways, I personally don't know that much about Pausch, but his quote about the frog really resonated with both Jim and I.

One thing I know is that I waste way more time avoiding onerous and tedious tasks than it would take for me to just buckle down and do them. I've been known to avoid my ironing for days even if it's piled on the ironing board in the middle of my living room and I have to walk past it dozens of times a day! When in fact once I finally do it, the whole process from start to finish generally takes less than 30 minutes. Really, was all that procrastination worth it? No!

Jim and I are both in agreement that putting the LAST thing we WANT to do at the top of our "To Do" list each day would be a giant leap forward for us in regards to time management. So our new modus operandi is "EAT THAT FROG...PRONTO!