There just isn’t enough time for everything on our ‘To Do’ list – and there never will be. Successful people don’t try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.
There’s an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that it’s probably the worst thing you’ll do all day. Using ‘eat that frog’ as a metaphor for tackling the most challenging task of your day – the one you are most likely to procrastinate on, but also probably the one that can have the greatest positive impact on your life – Eat That Frog shows you how to zero in on these critical tasks and organize your day. You’ll not only get more done faster, but get the right things done.
Bestselling author Brian Tracy cuts to the core of what is vital to effective time management: decision, discipline, and determination. In this fully revised and updated second edition, he provides brand new information on how to keep technology from dominating your time. He 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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Eat your big and ugliest frog first, as awful and awkward as it may sound, if you put it into practical use, the end product of whatever you started would be extremely good.
The book is on point and offers its main sole purpose practical advice. This book is aimed at any working professional with tips and tricks to improve your productivity and do good in life in general.
Brian, in his book, insists on eating the big ugly frog first, meaning ‘doing the tough, ugly work which you have been avoiding before finishing off the other uncomplicated tasks’.
This was an apt read from, cause these days I wake up early and do my daily chores in time just so I can remain doing less important things
I would recommend this book because it is a very basic collection of tips to beat procrastination. Geared very much toward sales and “business” people.
The downside was the repetition of some guidelines, like procrastination in every chapter, Brian really stressed the point, but to me it felt too much.
Maybe it is just me, I don’t like motivational books that much.