The early bird catches the worm, which must appeal to the fish, not to the fisher, and eating a frog or low-hanging fruits are proverbial allegories of productivity strategies found in coaching and thought leadership business advice.
Frog or Fruit Strategy?
Fruit Strategy
Picking so-called "low hanging fruits" stands for starting with easy, nearby opportunities promising perceivable quick wins like we would often do to please new customers when showing them a preview.
Frog Strategy
"Eating a frog" means accepting an unpleasant challenge, like solving a tricky error or mastering a dreaded negotiation.
Frogs Hanging Low
The AI-generated image above illustrates the idea of low hanging frogs and a little life-hack strategy combining some of the sayings metioned before:
- identify a small task
- that you could tackle and finish early in the morning
- to start your day with a feeling of success and achievement.
A task that should be small and simple enough to finish it successfully in a short time without too much effort, but not be too insignificant which would make the feeling of success merely symbolic. Ideally, that's something slightly unconfortable for a creative coder, like picking up the phone and holding the line until someone picks up to acknowledge an appointment, answering an email, or looking up a piece of information that got lost.
Consistency
It could also be writing a small blog post like this one, for the sake of consistency in the sense of posting regularly. Note that all images have been generated using AI, based on a spontaneous wordplay idea.
These are my "low-hanging frogs" for today.
Hope that you like it!
Top comments (4)
I like the message and I agree days should not only be filled with easy or nice tasks. They should have a mix of tasks.
I start with one or more easy ones, then do some harder/unpleasant ones and end with an easy task. You could see it as the equivalent of having coffee in the morning to energize and a glass of milk in the evening to relax.
I like your coffee and milk analogy!
Nice story ...
I confess to have eaten frog (yes, really) once in my life - wouldn't quickly do it again, but well, they we're already dead (and fried) anyway, and they were offered to me, so I wanted to be polite - and they tasted quite okay (a bit like chicken, but that's what they say about most vertebrates other than mammals and fish) ...
But, the nature/wildlife/animal lover and "conservationist" in me wouldn't quickly do it again, if ever!
I grew up eating frogs legs, so eating frog doesn't bother me.
The reason why people say other meats taste like chicken is because most of the time it is white meat. White meat has a less pronounced flavor than red meat.
About the environmental impact, it is better to farm smaller animals than bigger. Frogs also produce a whole bunch of eggs while bigger animals have one or a few offspring.