EAT THE FAT FROG

Mark Twain once said

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

This outlook can be adopted when it comes to your training, diet and pretty much most areas of life.

You are faced with 1000s of decisions every day. Most humans will seek the path of least resistance. In the moment it feels good, you usually get an instant reward but long term it can make life much more difficult.

Humans naturally want to seek pleasure and avoid pain. This is why it becomes hard to convince yourself that going to the gym is better than watching Netflix with a bag of Doritos.

Getting into the habit of delaying gratification can snowball and really help you achieve your goals, whether they are health and fitness related or not.

Most people know what they should be doing, however when you’re faced with the choice they don’t always make the right decision. Most people do what is easy, not what will benefit them.

At first you will require discipline to make better decisions but the more times you chose the better options, the easier it becomes and you develop the habit of doing the tough things that serve you better than the easy, convenient things.

It starts from when you wake up. Do you get up when your alarm goes off? Or do you hit snooze 84 times?

It may seem trivial but if you hit snooze, you have chosen the easy, comfortable option. You have told yourself that it’s ok to take the easier option.

When you are faced with the next decision you have already given yourself a free pass for the easy route. Which means when you have to chose between having the biscuits at work or not, you will likely be more inclined to have the biscuits.

At lunch time you could go a walk, or you could sit and scroll through Facebook.

When you get home you could go to the gym or you could sit on the couch.

Making ‘small’ difficult choices early in the day creates momentum and over time you will become better conditioned at making the right choices all day every day.

Eat the Fat Frog early and watch how your decision making changes.