Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Name: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
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There’s an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you’re done with the worst thing you’ll have to do all day. For Brian Tracy, eating a frog is a metaphor for tackling your most challenging task—but also the one that can have the greatest positive impact on your life. Eat That Frog! shows you how to organize each day so you can zero in on these critical tasks and accomplish them efficiently and effectively. In this fully revised and updated edition, Tracy adds two new chapters. The first explains how you can use technology to remind yourself of what is most important and protect yourself from what is least important. The second offers advice for maintaining focus in our era of constant distractions, electronic and otherwise.

The book title comes from a quote by Mark Twain: “If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.” The main premise of the book is that every day you should determine what is the one most important task that you need to complete to be successful. Then you should start that task immediately and stick with it until it is finished. His premise is that there will never be enough time to do everything that you must do, so you need to stop doing some things and spend more time on the things that really make a difference in your life.

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Tracy states early on that this book is not about the why’s of procrastination it is all about ways to overcome it. After studying other people’s work, he has compiled what he considers the 21 most powerful principals on personal effectiveness. These 21 methods or techniques can be used in any order or at any time and you might use different ones in different situations.

Before Tracy gets into what the 21 methods are, he spends some time talking about habits and task competition. He comments that task completion leaves you with a positive feeling and makes you happy. The 3 key qualities needed to help you develop task completion are decision, discipline, and determination.

Make the decision to develop the habit of task completion.
Discipline yourself to practice the 21 principles over and over until they become automatic.
Back everything you do with determination.

The book then quickly goes into the 21 techniques to help you “eat your frog”. He explains each method and with many of the techniques, he gives you an activity to do to help you get started.

I am not going to list all 21 ideas here, if you look up any reviews of the book you can find them, but I will mention a few that stood out to me.

“Set the table”. This is your goal setting step, where you decide what you want to achieve and you write it down or as Tracy puts it, “Think on paper”.

The 80/20 rule. 20% of your work will make up 80% of your achievements. Concentrate on that 20%.

Remember the 6P’s: Proper Prior Planning Prevent Poor Performance.
Practice positive self-talk. Having a positive mental attitude can help you find creative solutions to problems.

Break large tasks into smaller more manageable pieces. Eat the frog one bite at a time.

Never stop learning.

While the book focuses on increasing productivity in the workplace all the techniques are ideas that you could incorporate into any area of your life.

This book is very practical and has a lot of ideas that could be easily implemented into your lifestyle to help a person waste less time and be more productive. Many of them are ideas that you have probably heard before. A big plus to this book is that gets right to the point and will not take a lot of time to read.