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!