Tids and Bits

This quirky quote inspired Brian Tracy’s book Eat That Frog, which explores the common tendency to procrastinate on the most important (and often most challenging) tasks. The central idea is simple: if you get the hardest, most essential task done first, the rest of your day becomes much easier.

AWiB has been celebrating women’s agency since 2012. This excerpt is taken from the May 17th, 2012 May Forum held at the UNECA. But what exactly does agency mean? And specifically, what do we mean by women’s agency within the context of our forum?

In a world that glorifies busyness, the art of doing nothing is often misunderstood. We equate idleness with laziness, forgetting that stillness is not an absence of productivity but a quiet rebellion against the chaos of modern life. 

In life, it’s easy to look at someone else’s circumstances and think they have it so much better than I do. We often find ourselves believing that others’ lives are more fulfilling, more exciting, and simply better. This perspective is captured perfectly in the age-old analogy, “The grass ain’t greener on the other side.”