Eat That Frog!: Get More Of The Important Things Done Today

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Determining your three most important tasks for your job and the three most important things in your personal life can help you achieve balance and be happier and more satisfied. Furthermore, people with specific, written goals achieve far more than those who haven’t articulated their goals, yet only a handful of people have specific goals. You create your emotions by how you talk to yourself. What you tell yourself about people and situations determines whether they motivate or discourage you. Repeat to yourself, “I have what it takes” to build confidence and overcome doubt. When people ask how you are, respond, “I feel great” regardless of how you feel or how things are going. You have the ability to choose your attitude in any circumstance: choose to be positive. Eat That Frog!” presents 21 powerful principles on personal effectiveness. These practical tips are designed to help readers overcome procrastination and improve productivity.

Single Handle Every Task. Set clear priorities and start immediately on your most important task. Work without stopping until the job is 100% complete. This is the real key to high performance and maximum personal productivity You cannot do everything but you can do those few things in which you excel. Those are the few things that can really make a difference. #11 Identify Your Key Constraints Practice zero-based thinking on every part of your life. Ask yourself continually, “If I was not doing this already, knowing what I now know, would I get into it again today?” If no, it’s a prime candidate for elimination or creative procrastination.Develop the habit of eating your frog, first thing every day when you start work. Fortunately, this is a learnable skill that you can get through repetition. A ‘C’ task is defined as something that would be nice to do but for which there are no consequences at all, whether you do it or not.” Every idea in this book is focused on increasing your overall levels of productivity, performance, and outcome and on making you more valuable in whatever you do.” It gives you confidence and motivation to plunge into challenging tasks without hesitation and get them done. After you defined your goals, you broke those goals down into actionable tasks. But Tracy recommends taking it a step further and breaking your tasks down into the smallest possible components. The smaller the task, the easier it will be to start and complete because you'll be less overwhelmed by the idea of jumping into the task.

We all have specific times during the day when we are at your best. Identify yours and use them to work on your most important and challenging tasks The raw materials of personal performance are your physical, mental and emotional energies. To be productive and happy, guard and nurture your energy levels at all times. If the ABCDE approach method doesn't work for you, you may want to consider creating an Eisenhower Matrix instead.Whatever you choose to do, over and over, eventually becomes a habit that is hard to break. If you start your day on low-value tasks, you’ll develop the habit of always starting on low-value tasks. First, you should create a master list on which you write down everything you can think of that you want to do sometime in the future.”