💃 A Frog 🐸 Eating Guide for Salesforce Professionals 🕺

Good morning, Salesforce Nerds! If you’ve grinded all week and felt like you’ve gotten nothing done, then eating the frog is for you! 🐸 

Don’t worry, not only is it not disgusting…it is productivity rocket fuel 🚀.

See for yourself ⬇️

WHAT IS IT?

What is “Eat the Frog”?

Eating the frog is doing the hardest thing first.

When you have to clean the house, the hardest thing is definitely cleaning the bathrooms 😅. If you start with cleaning the bathrooms- knock that nastiness out 🤢- then the dusting and vacuuming is gonna seem real easy 😃.

As a Salesforce professional, you have your to-do list or your assigned Jira tasks. Eating the frog is doing the highest priority, highest effort, most impactful task first.

With a name like “eat the frog,” you already know it’s gonna be a heavy lift. But unlike eating an actual frog, you’re gonna feel like a million bucks when you’re done!

Eat the frog, do the hard thing first 🫡.

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?

Productivity Rocket Fuel

“There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.” - Andy Grove

👷 Working on what matters, matters.

🪡 Moving the needle every day, matters.

💪 Tenaciously persevering through hard things, matters.

When it comes to Salesforce, there are so many bathroom-cleaning-like tasks on your plate. For example-

• Writing up that Executive Summary.

• Creating the presentation for the team meeting.

• Drafting SOW deliverable line-items for the sales team.

• Updating the gantt chart for the client’s PM.

• Polishing project documentation.

• Design, build, and test that super custom report.

• QA the deliverables from the dev team and prepare the client demo.

Then there’s those things that you’ll need to break into smaller parts-

• Data Migration

  • Review

  • Scrub

  • Decision log

  • Field mapppin

  • Dataload

• Marketing Case Study

  • Research

  • Outline

  • Write

  • Review

  • Publish

Everything on these lists matters to stakeholders, they’re needle-moving, and they’re hard.

Doing the hardest things first produces results, and makes what comes after seem trivial, like scrubbing your kid’s toilet and then dusting the side table.

WHAT’S INCLUDED?

Benefits! And risks….

Benefits

Imagine eating the frog 365 days in row. Is there anything more needle-moving than doing the hardest thing every day of the year?!

There’s admins, consultants, and developers out there who spend 365 days a year avoiding the hardest thing 😳. You’re going to lap them every day!

Executives and managers will be forced to take notice 👀.

🚀 Your productivity will skyrocket.

💧You’ll be dripping problem solving skills.

🧠 Your Salesforce knowledge will be elite.

In addition, the anxiety of having a difficult to-do on your plate lives rent free in your head. Knocking it out to start your day is going to eliminate anxiety AND make your remaining tasks seem like child’s play.

Risks

Look, eating the frog is hard 💯. Doing it day over day? Really. Hard.

And although you may move the needle with each completed task, you didn’t sign up to be Sisyphus. Find a balance. Eating the frog every day is certain to burn you out. So how many days can you comfortably-uncomfortably eat the frog?

Another risk is if you have a fragile attention span. Perhaps focus doesn’t come easy for you, and you need a primed-brain before taking on tough tasks. This will require further planning, and lining up some quick and easy to-dos to complete in front of the frog 😯.

HOW DO YOU GET IT?

What you’ll need…

1) Identify Your Frog 🐸 

Deep down, you probably already know what your frog is….

But if not, go through your project management tool or wherever you keep your inventory of to-dos.

Prioritize your list and understand the impacts that the completed tasks will have (big impact → higher priority).

Then, identify your frog. If there are multiples that are equally high-priority and high-impact, take on the biggest one first 💪😅.

2) Plan Ahead

But this was supposed to reduce anxiety?!

Here’s the thing - frogs are best eaten at the start of your day. But you know, as a Salesforce professional, your behind-the-curtains time isn’t always available when it’s most optimal or ideal.

So check your calendar, block off time, and leave yourself a solid description of the task- enough that you can read it the next day and be able to jump right in.

The gains are worth it 📈 to take a few minutes to identify and plan your Frog ahead of when you eat it 💯.

3) Enjoy the Fruits of Your Labor

“If you want an easy life, do hard things. If you want a hard life, do easy things.” - Naval Ravikant

Eating frogs is hard! And you WILL see results from doing the hardest thing, every day.

Consider the inverse- if you don’t do the hard thing today, you’re gonna have to do it tomorrow, or the next day.

Would you rather bear the weight of your undone, hard task? Or the freedom of completing the hardest thing on your list? 🙂 

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