Got a pebble in your shoe?
If you’re going on a day-long hike and, right at the outset, you find a pebble in your shoe, what do you do? You don’t say, “I have to do the hardest task first—I’m going to finish this hike and remove the pebble after”. No, you take off your shoe, give it a good shake until the pebble drops to the ground, you put your shoe back on, and you continue walking. When it comes to completing our biggest, most important tasks, we’re told to eat that frog, to fill our jar with big rocks first, to...