{"id":59396,"date":"2017-01-01T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=59396"},"modified":"2017-01-01T08:03:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T06:03:48","slug":"start-your-day-by-eating-a-live-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/01\/start-your-day-by-eating-a-live-frog\/","title":{"rendered":"Start your day by eating a live frog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you start your <strong>workday<\/strong> <strong>[INSERT LINK HERE]\u00a0<\/strong>by tackling a big project (frog), the rest of the day becomes less daunting.<\/p>\n<p>From the best-selling time-management book,\u00a0<em>Eat That Frog<\/em>\u00a0by Brian Tracy, Gina Trapani unpacks the frog strategy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Choose your frog<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When you have chosen your frog for the next day, write it down on a piece of paper that you\u2019ll see when you arrive at your office.<\/li>\n<li>Write down the tasks you need to complete the following day at the end of each day<\/li>\n<li>Look at the list when you arrive at <strong>work\u00a0[INSERT LINK HERE]<\/strong> the next day.<\/li>\n<li>At the end of each day, create a list for the next day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And keep repeating.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/RYTIIcLkC5E' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is famous author Mark Twain\u2019s success advice: \u201cEat a live frog first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.\u201d This roughly translates to: Do your biggest, most daunting tasks first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7782,"featured_media":59397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[5628,22018,5785,5786,2123,5787],"class_list":["post-59396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-biz","tag-afp-business","tag-charm","tag-frog","tag-money","tag-profit"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["biz","Business","charm","frog","money","profit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}