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EAT THAT FROG21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating

And Get More Done in Less Time

BUY BOOK

FounderFounder

Investments & real estate development Investments & real estate development

Sales & marketing Sales & marketing

Personal, professional developmentPersonal, professional development

Achieve personal /professional goalsAchieve personal /professional goals

Lifelong habitsLifelong habits

More efficiencyMore efficiency

Due to lack of clarityDue to lack of clarity

Determines successDetermines success

Change the way you workChange the way you work

Leads to accomplishmentLeads to accomplishment

Do things differentlyDo things differently

Identifying most important task

Identifying most important task

Tackle with single-minded focus

Tackle with single-minded focus

Complete itComplete it

Launch directlyLaunch directly

from Amazon.com

Talks to 250,000 people each year

Careers

Brian Tracy International

Prolific author

Berrett-Koehler

© 2001

96 pages

Overall

Applicability

Innovation

Delivery Style

Self Development

Time-management techniques

How to adopt these tools

Task prioritization methods

Achievers

Eat the frog

Most important tasks

Ability to focus

Failure

Identify one skill

Rule for success

Make a list every night

Action

Gain control of your life

Key Ideas

Brian Tracy

Write down your goals

Do it the next day

That would have biggest impact on your career

AMPHIBIANON TOASTAMPHIBIANON TOAST

WINNING IS A HABIT

TIME-MANAGEMENT,PARETO STYLE

LONG - TERMTHINKING

To succeed

THE ABCs OF SUCCESS

KEYRESULTAREAS

THE LAW OFFORCED

EFFICIENCY

IDENTIFY YOUR KEY

CONSTRAINS

BECOMING YOUR CHEER LEADER

EAT THAT FROG

21 Great Ways to Stop ProcrastinatingAnd Get More Done in Less Time

Frogs Tasks you need to doTasks you need to doBut haven’t for some reasonBut haven’t for some reason

Time to learn to snack on frogs

Tackle critical projects/problems

Ability to focus To accomplish taskTo accomplish task

Lack of clarity Impairs actionImpairs action

Develop good work habitsDevelop good work habitsSelect big frogs first

3 qualities to develop successful habits

Decide precisely

Write down

Set deadlines

List what you will need

Make a plan

Take action

Take small steps

Generates 80% revenue

Identify the 20%

Time management

Eat the big frogs first

20-80 rule 20% of all activity

Delay short-term gratification

Think long term

Achieve long-term results

ABCDE method for successMake a list

Complete the tasks in order

Mark A, B, C, D, E priorities

Improve performance

Allocate resources

Improve weakestkey area first

Identify key result areasIdentify key result areas

Strengthen

Job expandsFills time you allow for itFills time you allow for it

AskWhat is highest value activity?What is highest value activity?

What is that will have significant impact?

What is that will have significant impact?

What is highest and best use of time, right now?

What is highest and best use of time, right now?

Also can be forced to be done faster

Critical building block

Constraints

Identify limiting factors

Take responsibility

For success

Affect completion of job

Smoothen work flow

Determine what to do to improve

ChallengeMeet it by cheering yourself on

Be eternal optimist

Always talk to yourself positively

Resolve to remain cheerful, upbeat

Visualize goals

Eat the frogEvery day

Change

"Time management is really life management."

"The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place."

"Many people confuse activity with accomplishment."

"Clearly written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action."

EAT THAT FROG

21 Great Ways to Stop ProcrastinatingAnd Get More Done in Less Time

AMPHIBIANON TOASTAMPHIBIANON TOAST

Worst thing you can doWorst thing you can do

Tasks you need to doTasks you need to do

But haven’t for some reasonBut haven’t for some reason

Snack on difficult problemsSnack on difficult problems

Accomplish the most important taskAccomplish the most important task

Achieve successAchieve success

Obscure true goals/objectivesObscure true goals/objectives

Impairs actionImpairs action

OverwhelmsOverwhelmsPaucity of timePaucity of time

Eat itEat itAddress the problemAddress the problem

Eaten a frog?

Frogs everywhere

Time to eat frogs

Tackle critical projects/problems

Learn to focus

Lack of clarity complicates

Choose the biggest frog

Develop good work habits Success followsSuccess follows

Creatively & effectively

In single-minded fashion In single-minded fashion

Make choicesMake choices

Need disciplineNeed discipline

Need determinationNeed determination

Decide Decide What you wantWhat you want

WriteWriteGoals downGoals down

Set deadlinesSet deadlinesFor achievementFor achievement

List List

Make plansMake plansOrganize by priorityOrganize by priority

Take actionTake actionDon’t hesitateDon’t hesitate

Take a small step everydayTake a small step everyday

Towards goalTowards goal

Till you achieveTill you achieve

Leads to failure/disappointmentLeads to failure/disappointment

Develop successful habits

Learn to think on paper

Push forward

Action without planning

Create different lists

Master lists

Weekly lists

Daily lists

WINNING IS A HABIT

What you will need to do to achieve

Monthly lists

Vilfredo Pareto

20% of all activity

Generates 80% revenue

Applies to all activity2/10 items on your list2/10 items on your list

80% returns80% returns

Hardest partGetting startedGetting started

Eat the big frogs first

TIME-MANAGEMENT,PARETO STYLE

Time management

1895 - 20-80 rule

Take control of sequence of events

Think long term"Simply put, some people are doing better than others because they do certain things differently and they do the right things right."

"You can get control of your time and your life only by changing the way you think, work and deal with the never-ending river of responsibilities that flows over you each day."

"Clarity is the most important concept in personal productivity."

EAT THAT FROG

21 Great Ways to Stop ProcrastinatingAnd Get More Done in Less Time

LONG - TERMTHINKING

For success

Ask questions What if you don’t do this?What if you don’t do this?

Give yourself a motive for choices

Delay short-term gratification Achieve long-term results

Succeed

Success As simple as ABC + DE As simple as ABC + DE

ABCDE method for success

Make a listMake a list

Mark A, B, C, D, E prioritiesMark A, B, C, D, E priorities

Complete the tasks in orderComplete the tasks in order

A first, B next…A first, B next…

C? Maybe not at allC? Maybe not at all

Delegate DDelegate D

Eliminate EEliminate EPractice ABCDE method Positive impact on life Positive impact on life

THE ABCs OF SUCCESS

KEY RESULT AREAS

Improve performance

Identify key result areasIdentify key result areas

For salesperson

For salesperson

Allocate resources

Weakestkey area

ProspectingProspecting

Making presentations

Making presentations

Closing businessClosing business

After sales serviceAfter sales service

Admin duties/paperwork

Admin duties/paperwork

To handle key areas

Defines ceiling of performance

Anchor which keeps you from sailing

Improve

Strengthen

To improve overall performance

"The key to success is action."

""An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done."

"The ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success."

EAT THAT FROG

21 Great Ways to Stop ProcrastinatingAnd Get More Done in Less Time

THE LAW OFFORCED

EFFICIENCY

Job expandsFills time you allow for it

Also can be forced to be done faster

Address this

Ask questionsWhat is that will have significant impact?

What is highest and best use of time, right now?

Manage time better

What is highest value activity?

Critical building block

Smoothen work flow

Resolve choke points

80% problems from 20% obstacles

Constraints

Identify limiting factors

Take responsibility Determine what to do to improve

IDENTIFYYOUR KEY

CONSTRAINS

What's holding you back?

For success

Affect completion of job

80-20 rule

BECOMING YOUR CHEER LEADER

Change Is a challenge

Meet it by cheering yourself on

Respond positively

Steer a clear course

Always talk to yourself positively Affirm

Resolve to remain cheerful, upbeat

Difficulties come to instruct, not obstruct

Visualize goals

Have a positiveattitude

Break them down

Work with urgency

Eat the frogEvery day

Be eternal optimist Rely on yourself

Undeterred by minor setbacks

Imagine success

Tackle difficult tasks first