Comments on: Challenge #6: Eat That Frog

By: SasQ

SasQ — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 20:31:22 +0000

I had read about a man who give his computer to service. The serviceman hadn’t seen any files on his HDD, so he simply formatted his HDD and reinstalled Windows. The client came back next day and cried: “What did you do with my precious files?!” The serviceman answered that there wasn’t any files, and the client replied: “There was, in a trash bin! Now they’re gone!”

By: Juuso - Game Producer

Juuso - Game Producer — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:19:36 +0000

Just remember to store those papers somewhere else than trash bin :)

By: Roman Budzowski

Roman Budzowski — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:11:51 +0000

ToDo lists works best when written on paper. So use pen and paper and cross out all done points. Now back to finishing stuff :D

By: Juuso - Game Producer

Juuso - Game Producer — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:17:27 +0000

That’s a great story SasQ, and believe me – it’s your “internal desire to do things” that got you there. Maybe this post gave you a little “push”, but it could have been some other site or anything that could have given you that push.

And don’t come back here to read this reply until you’ve finished one more task ;)

By: SasQ

SasQ — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:02:38 +0000

I took your advice and stopped reading to focus on my work, not finished from a long time.
It’s strange, but I couldn’t do it, because I’ve been still thinking about that suspended reading of your blog and can’t focus on my current work! :| It’s the same kind of problem when I can’t suspend my current work and go to sleep before I finish – then I’m still thinking about suspended work in my bed too and can’t sleep.
So, my conclusion is that eating a frog isn’t a good advice for people like me.
But… ;J
When I was laying on my bed that day, on the border between sleep and awake, I was visualising my not finished screen class as it’s finished and work properly, and in that state I’ve suddenly realize that I’ve found a solution of my design problem, which I can’t figure out for a long time! :)
I woke up from this state and wrote down all that stuff on my dream diary, with all details.
So, now I’m working on this screen class again and now it’s going on faster than in the past ;)
I only don’t know if it’s a merit of your advice or it’s something other ;J

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:25:16 +0000

I finished loads yesterday, reading the post was part of my normal thing. But yeah I have a text doc To Do list split into different areas and priorities (to help me focus on the import stuff even if I don’t feel like it). Monday is my admin day so it’s all done and the rest of the week I can do fun stuff. However, sometimes the admin runs over into Tuesday (like this week!) I just put on some good trance at http://www.di.fm and just get on with it :-)

By: Aymes

Aymes — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:26:28 +0000

Well, Im at the “day job” right now…but I did finish all my pictures for my latest script for my latest project yesterday! I really didnt want to do that since i know my drawing skills needs work!

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:38:58 +0000

… and neither of you finished anything after reading this post I presume? ;)

By: Aymes

Aymes — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:29:24 +0000

Personally I just use a text file just on my desktop.

I always try to do the jobs i dont want to do in the morning so i can do the fun stuff in the afternoon :D

I always get more done in the morning!

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:12:21 +0000

I’m working at a time tracking/management software which is focused on exactly things like that, tracking how much time you spend at something, exactly what percentage of your time goes into eating that frog and what percentage of time you procrastinate, etc. Its at:
http://www.phplazy.com