Thrive in 2025: A guide to eat-the-frog business planning

Wallace Real Estate’s Claudia Stallings offers insight and advice on end-of-year business planning and proactive growth strategies.

Besides, perhaps, a root canal, is there anything that we avoid more than business planning? In corporate terms, prioritizing the stuff that’s hard and doing the stuff we don’t want to do first is also referred to as “eating the frog.”

The phrase “eat the frog” is variously attributed to Nicolas Chamfort, a French writer, and Mark Twain, who had a couple of different versions of it:

  • “If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning.”
  • “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”

It then turned into a productivity book by Brian Tracy with a focus on organization, productivity and proactively overcoming challenges.

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Your 2024 Checklist: Complete Before Jan. 1!

The biggest killer of massive action is thinking about what actions to take. That’s why you need this 2024 checklist.

10 days. That’s all that’s left in 2023. On the one hand, it’s exciting because we’re stepping into a new year of opportunity. On the other hand, there’s a bit of pressure – because the things you put in place over the next 10 days could determine the course of your entire year. Don’t worry though, there’s still time to complete your 2024 checklist.

Now is the time to think about exactly what actions you’re going to take so that you won’t have to waste energy on a daily basis thinking about what to do next.

In this blog, I’ll give you a 2024 checklist of things you’ll want to complete and get ironed out before the New Year’s ball drops, covering everything from your health and wellness to your goals and business strategies.

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