“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
– Maybe Mark Twain, but maybe nobody
I stare at my ToDo list for the day, and I can feel myself gravitating towards certain tasks.
I can roughly categorize my tasks on the list as follows:
- Sales and networking
- Management
- Technical
Myself really wants myself to do the technical ones. Those are the ones I like. Write some Python to help so-and-so? Sure! Love to. Look at last night’s automated test suite and figure out what hapened? Absolutely! Dig into our architecture to see how we should make it better? I’m already doing it.
I can often psyche myself up for the management tasks also because I’m usually good at them, even the tricky ones. I don’t mind doing the stuff I’m good at.
But then there’s the sales and marketing tasks. Ugh.
We’re starting a new company. Going out on our own. We need to find customers. I, as the leader of the band, need to find the customers. I suck at it. At least right now.
Guess which tasks are the most important? In fact, nothing else is actually important right now.
The days you start by eating the frog are the days you’re making progress.
Nothing else matters.
