In our special Tuesday version of Monday Motivation, we figured we could all use a little extra motivation to counteract the tryptophan.

This piece by Dora Farkas should do nicely. Dora’s blog provides a lot of great advice for graduate students (but really all students) on how to be successful in university. Our favourite is learning to “eat that frog” – a term Dora borrows from Brian Tracy’s best-selling book of the same name. In Dora’s words,

According to an old proverb, if you begin your day by eating a live frog, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that that’s the worst thing that can happen to you all day. To apply the metaphor to a work day, your frog is the action that will have the most impact on your results, one that perhaps you have been procrastinating. Examples include learning a new software, getting your workspace organized or writing a manuscript. Think about which frog you would need to eat to make the biggest leap in reaching your goals.

Don’t get us wrong, turkey is great, but do yourselves a favour this Tuesday and eat your frog before you eat all those Thanksgiving leftovers. And read more from Dora here.