Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
Achieve work-life balance by conquering procrastination and get your most important work done, now with new chapters on technology and maintaining focus The fully revised and expanded edition of the global bestseller with over 3 million copies sold world-wide The saying goes: if the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, then you're done with the toughest thing for the day. Eating that frog means tackling your most challenging task--and it's also the one that can have the greatest positive impact on your life. Productivity and time management coach Brian Tracy shows you how to organize each day so you can zero in on these critical tasks and accomplish them efficiently and effectively. The 3 essentials of successful time management are decision, discipline, and determination, and Tracy shows you how to dial in these skills using 21 principles and techniques like: - Single handle every task
- Upgrade your key skills
- Identify your key constraints
- Put the pressure on yourself
- Slice and dice the task This life-changing manual will ensure that you get more of your important tasks done today.
- Upgrade your key skills
- Identify your key constraints
- Put the pressure on yourself
- Slice and dice the task This life-changing manual will ensure that you get more of your important tasks done today.
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Definitely a good start to any new year is this little book of very wise advice. It explains complicated ways of thinking very simply and joyfully. If you have goals but not sure how to get to your destination, then this is definitely the book for you. Makes a lovely coffee table book as well and you can read it numerous times, every time you will read something new.
This book is a concised copy of all the management text books. You can't excel at a subject just by adding "eat that frog" in it. There was so little about procrastinating and alot about making talk lists. The "think on paper" thing is so overused in this book and everything is repeated like a hundred times. We can't expect this attitude from self-help books...
Subtitled as 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done In Less Time, this was a pretty short (2:40 audiobook) book that basically outlines how to get off your duff and get a move on, in work and your personal life.
Is it The Word? Probably not, but most of it did seem like common sense. I did use some of the suggestions already such as starting your day (or ending your night) by making a list of tasks that need to be done that day (or the next day). I know how necessary this is, but sometimes once I get to work, all hell breaks loose and there's no time. As Tracy says, MAKE TIME. I started doing this this week and it really did help focus me on what needed to be done. Tracy expounds on the fact that only 1-3 of your daily tasks are essential to your work/job. Working to identify those tasks and only doing those tasks is ideal but I couldn't see me trying this at my job.
I'm not going to continually tell myself I'm awesome, like he suggests, but I can tell myself that this little book was well worth reading and actually using.
Is it The Word? Probably not, but most of it did seem like common sense. I did use some of the suggestions already such as starting your day (or ending your night) by making a list of tasks that need to be done that day (or the next day). I know how necessary this is, but sometimes once I get to work, all hell breaks loose and there's no time. As Tracy says, MAKE TIME. I started doing this this week and it really did help focus me on what needed to be done. Tracy expounds on the fact that only 1-3 of your daily tasks are essential to your work/job. Working to identify those tasks and only doing those tasks is ideal but I couldn't see me trying this at my job.
I'm not going to continually tell myself I'm awesome, like he suggests, but I can tell myself that this little book was well worth reading and actually using.
Listened to this audiobook.
If you’ve read any other self development books this one falls in line. Nothing really earth shattering here. He really tried to break things into simple steps to try and get you organized and motivated. Not sure I would have read the book, but it was an easy listen on my commute.
If you’ve read any other self development books this one falls in line. Nothing really earth shattering here. He really tried to break things into simple steps to try and get you organized and motivated. Not sure I would have read the book, but it was an easy listen on my commute.
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