"Eat The Frog by @BrianTracy "
In this book, Brian details twenty-one practical and doable steps that will help you stop procrastinating and get more of the important tasks done - today!
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In this book, Brian details twenty-one practical and doable steps that will help you stop procrastinating and get more of the important tasks done - today!
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1) The Truth about Frogs:
If you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.
Discipline yourself to begin immediately and then to persist until the task is complete before you go on to something else.
If you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.
Discipline yourself to begin immediately and then to persist until the task is complete before you go on to something else.
2) No Shortcuts:
Practice is the key to mastering any skill.
With practice, you can learn any behavior or develop any habit that you consider either desirable or necessary.
Practice is the key to mastering any skill.
With practice, you can learn any behavior or develop any habit that you consider either desirable or necessary.
3) Apply the 80/20 Rule to Everything:
20 percent of your tasks will account for 80 percent of the value of what you do.
We always have time enough if we will but use it aright.
20 percent of your tasks will account for 80 percent of the value of what you do.
We always have time enough if we will but use it aright.
4) The Three Ds of New Habit Formation:
decision β make a decision to develop the habit of task completion.
discipline β discipline yourself to practice the principles you are about to learn over and over until they become automatic
determination β back everything you do withβ¦
decision β make a decision to develop the habit of task completion.
discipline β discipline yourself to practice the principles you are about to learn over and over until they become automatic
determination β back everything you do withβ¦
5) Plan Every Day in Advance:
Planning is bringing the future into the present, so that you can do something about it now.
Planning is bringing the future into the present, so that you can do something about it now.
6) Never lose sight of the real reasons why you work as hard as you do and why you are so determined to accomplish the very most with the time that you invest.
The more important you spend face-to-face with the people you love, the happier you will be.
The more important you spend face-to-face with the people you love, the happier you will be.
7) Prepare Thoroughly Before you Begin:
The cleaner and neater your work environment, the more positive, productive, and confident you will feel.
The cleaner and neater your work environment, the more positive, productive, and confident you will feel.
8) Upgrade Your Key Skills:
The more you learn and know, the more confident and motivated you feel.
The more you learn, the more you can learn.
And there is no limit to how far or how fast you can advance except for the limits you place on your own imagination.
The more you learn and know, the more confident and motivated you feel.
The more you learn, the more you can learn.
And there is no limit to how far or how fast you can advance except for the limits you place on your own imagination.
9) Lead the Field:
Raise the bar on yourself. The standards you set for your own work and behavior should be higher than anyone else could set for you.
You increase your self-esteem whenever you go beyond the point where the average person would normally quit.
Raise the bar on yourself. The standards you set for your own work and behavior should be higher than anyone else could set for you.
You increase your self-esteem whenever you go beyond the point where the average person would normally quit.
10) Technology is just a tool:
You must discipline yourself to treat technology as a servant, not as a master.
The purpose of technology is to make your life smoother and easier, not to create complexity, confusion, and stress.
You must discipline yourself to treat technology as a servant, not as a master.
The purpose of technology is to make your life smoother and easier, not to create complexity, confusion, and stress.
11) Identify your Key Constraints:
Starting off your day with the removal of a key bottleneck or constraint fills you with energy and personal power.
It propels you into following through and completing the job.
Starting off your day with the removal of a key bottleneck or constraint fills you with energy and personal power.
It propels you into following through and completing the job.
12) Develop a Positive Mental Attitude
- Look for the good in every situation.
- Always seek the valuable lesson in every setback or difficulty.
- Always look for the solution to every problem.
- Think and talk continually about the goals.
- Look for the good in every situation.
- Always seek the valuable lesson in every setback or difficulty.
- Always look for the solution to every problem.
- Think and talk continually about the goals.
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