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Well I have a work in progress that I have been doing it started about seven months ago but it was something I have been putting off for a decade this is awesome though and I'm glad to see you doing a contest to help motivate people I upvoted and resteemed for the great idea and I also followed you hope to see more great stuff like this

Dude this is awesome! Pushing people to always find that inner strength! Love it brother- Ive decided after sitting on it for a while to begin two different projects.

First is the Gaming community, as there seems to be no huge community on steemit for gaming yet.
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@bambam808/introducing-g-s-gamers-its-still-the-1st-week-spotlight-hots-blizzard-vlog-ep-003-do-you-feel-that-its-the-ice-cold-hand-of

Second is the new satirical/humorous news show Aristobrats Hourly (may be renaming. weighing pros and cons)
https://steemit.com/whaleshares/@bambam808/straight-from-the-vault-aristobrats-hourly-rare-interview-w-kai-the-cryptosurfer-about-whaleshares-and-more

Hope all is well @themarkeymark

This reminds me of the Naval Officer who gave a commencement speech at the University of Texas a few years ago. There is a video out there somewhere of it. The gist of it was to start your day by making your bed. By doing so you have accomplished your first task of the day. With the first task over you now have the confidence to conquer the rest before you that day. If the day goes bad you will always come home to a nice made bed. Look for the video everyone it is quite special.

awesome contest. have resteemed - i would like to enter this...lets see if i can make time

Think big!

this is a really terrific idea for a contest. Now I just have to think about what is the ugliest frog in my life. I will be back once I figure that out and eat it! Definitely following you for the upcoming workflow series. Cheers - Carl (gnashster)

Awesome!

This is my first contest, so bear with me. I'm excited to see what you guys do!

So I've named my frogs. As I understand the rules of the game, a frog must be: something I don't routinely do, something that will move me forward towards a big goal, and something I am avoiding/procrastinating.

There are many small frogs but three big ones. They are:

  1. clean the house (sounds routine, but it isn't, and therin lies the problem),
  2. relaunch Whole Self In, and
  3. write the org chart and job descriptions for my aikido dojo which I recently inherited.

I had to sit with my frogs a while. They squirm. Clean The House kept clamoring to go first, so I had to ask about the cost of commitment. If I clean first, when will I do the other things? What will be the cost of delay? Then I noticed Dojo Org Chart hiding in the back. The fattest and wartiest of all. The one I tell myself I don't know how to do, or don't have time to do, because I'm afraid of the response from existing team members.

The funny thing about ignoring a frog is, it becomes your natural state. You get used to ignoring it, and its hard to even see that it's there.

OK, I have swallowed one frog. I feel like I just swallowed one, too. It laid baby frogs and I'm gonna have to deal with them, but they ought to be easier. For example, I need to type my hand-scrawled org chart into a readable format and share it with my team, and more importantly I need to write the job descriptions for both the jobs already being done and the ones I'd like people to do.
org chart draft.jpg
The image might show why this is a frog for me. Two red dots indicates I do the job entirely in my business. One red dot means I have help, but things still tend not to get done without me. No wonder I feel like I have no time!

Oh! I almost forgot to thank @themarkymark too. Thank you bro for believing in this community, and providing ur quota to make it grow. The newbies appreciates you more.

This is an awesome contest.

resteem and upvote.... Check!!

Resteemed, love the idea. I will do my best to make it in time!

I have done it! I dedicated most of the day to the cleaning of the ugliest and most ignored giant banana cluster on the farm, and most of the night writing the article and uploading pictures. We achieved flow! And everybody on the farm got involved, check it out here:

https://steemit.com/sustainability/@ecoinstant/cleaning-the-giant-banana-plant-and-eating-the-ugly-frog-first

Thanks for the motivation!

That's procrastination speaking, you got a week, you can do it!

Yes! I will eat that ugly toad!

My farm is my largest and ugliest frog. As a jobless graduate, i decided to take up a family business which is farming. I find it hard to do because it is very stressful and i have to do it everyday. Most times it takes 10hrs from me everyday. I still eat the frog cos i have to, if i want to survive.

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All images are mine and it was taken with infinix hot 4

You can read more about my activities daily on my farm HERE

The second frog is steemit. After working on a my farm almost throughout a day. I still find time to come on steemit. I try to keep up with original contents and i also try to keep in touch with my fellow steemians

Challenge accepted, and thank you. I have so many frogs to choose from, I am not even sure which to eat first. Will check first thing in the morning and see which frog is biggest.

Holy Shit 💩 It's Done!

Here are the before and after shots


....and here is the link to MY POST

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

@themarkymark ,i haved upvoted, followed you and made you a witness and resteemed your post..i really want to participate in this contest but i am a bit unclear about how i am going to write about my actions do i post here? Btw i am starting a restaurant along with som partners.and there is a whole lot of things to be done.and the ugliest frog to eat would be the bathroom renovation....iam already working on it...ill post pictures of the renovation...i hope thats ok

Thanks for the vote!

Pictures before and after are awesome, but not everything can be expressed in pictures. Some times the largest ugliest frog is not physical, for example, I recently had to tie into Town Septic. I know all the bids are gouging, as they are twice the price the town said I should expect. Out of 60 numbers, only 2 called back, I hunted down 2 more off the list. All the options sucked, so I kept putting it off as it was ridiculously expensive but would cost a lot more if I waited. So I decided and got it done. It sucked, but I no longer keep waiting up feeling like shit about making the decision. I have moved on and feel a big sense of relief.

Okay, I did it. I really, really, really didn't want to do it, but I did. I updated my website. I know it does not sound like much of a chore to most but to me it is grueling because I'm not so good with code and web design. Here's what I covered: Added product tabs, reorganized content, added visual banners, edited product descriptions, put an item on sale, added content to a section that I was dreading, proofed all pages for typos, and had two friends review the content for user experience. Ugh. It took me 3.5 hours, plus time talking to UX reviewers. How do I feel now that it is done? Proud, relieved, and tired! But I do feel better about my content, and I'm glad it is behind me. Thanks for the motivation to finally get off my butt and do it!

Got before and after pics?

It never occured to me to take a before picture, but I am happy to send you the URL to the site.

It's fine, just cool to see what people have done.

Ok. I'm IN. I've resteemed and I've got my task. Gonna go ahead and say it before I allow myself to change my mind. I'm going to organize my "office" which is actually an office of craft supplies. It's a freaking mess. I'm already blabbing because I'm dreading it so. Bleh.

Before and After pics!

Will do! Tomorrow is my goal day!

I'm currently procrastinating this chore with other chores 🙃

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This has great motivational potential. I guess my study homeworks of 25 pages are just too boring and german to participate. I will find a more interesting task if there is a next contest maybe. :)
Upvoted and resteemed anyway. I really like the idea.

:)

Got to be something other than routine. Do something big that will move you to your goals.

Hm, so laundry doesnt count. Got it.

I finally done this, hehe!

I completed this article for suesa's science challenge.

https://steemit.com/suesascience/@libert/earth-is-flat-a-myth-or-fact

Also, big shout out to @whaleshares . Thanks for the encouragement and helping to make this platform grow daily

OK. In that case, I've won the first prize.
Steemers pls make that happen. Thank you

Automation is cool, I won't participate, sorry, I made my big deal, wrote about expo on steemit and that's it, no big deals, only homework and university...

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you want our experience written up in the comments yea? and how many words you want to read?

Whatever it takes to talk about it.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Very original contest! I'm looking forward for seeing all the submissions :D

Make sure yours is in there!

This is so easy for me, early this year we bought 1.53 acres of land and just over 1/4 of the acres is woods that is overgrown with invasive Japanese Honeysuckle. It is a really big job that we have been procrastinating for months. Finally because we are on a deadline to get our house built we have started clearing away some of the overgrowth. We have a large grove and a small grove, we started with the smaller grove first we still have a bunch to do, but we have gotten started. Here let me show you what I mean.

This is what it looks like now.

It doesn't look like the same spot anymore and we had to cut down a dead tree and a couple of other invasive ones. But it feels really good to have that done. Next spring we will be planting new trees to replace the ones that had to come down.
I actually made a post on the clearing of the land a few days ago you can find all the details here. https://steemit.com/life/@tecnosgirl/clearing-out-invasive-plants Happy Steeming.
P.S. it has helped me because now there is less work to do and now I can use that part of my land before you couldn't

I now have all my bases covered. Upvoted, Resteemed, accomplished posted.

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i like ur post now follow you

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