- Hardcover: 96 pages
- Publisher: Berrett-Koehler; 1st edition (1 May 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1583762027
- ISBN-13: 978-1583762028
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 16.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
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Time is the currency of the 21st century. Everyone is busier than they have ever been, and overwhelmed with tasks of all sizes. This work contains a series of practical, proven, effective techniques that every person can use to focus on their most important tasks, stop procrastinating and get more things done faster than ever before. Using the techniques to make you extremely efficient, effective and productive to get more done, feel less stress and feel more in control.
About the Author
Brian Tracy is chairman of Brian Tracy International and the author/narrator of some of the world's bestselling audio cassette programs, including The Psychology of Achievement and The Psychology of Success. He speaks to such groups as IBM, McDonnell Douglas and The Million Dollar Round Table.
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103 of 106 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is an easy read, and it contains a lot of sound advice - although none of the ideas is particularly new. As it is very list based, it will only appeal to people who like working with lists.
A 'frog' is defined as a task that is likely to make a major impact on your success, something important and possibly also substantial. It may also be a hard or 'ugly' task, which leads to a temptation to procrastinate. Tracy advocates 'eating' the ugliest frog first and avoiding the temptation to do easier pleasanter tasks.
Tracy leads the reader through the steps he believes you need to take to achieve greater effectiveness and success and to overcome procrastination. He starts with the importance of written goals - clarity about what you want to achieve. Setting yourself deadlines is an essential part of this process. Both these views are conventional time management wisdom, and they are very important. Tracy suggests that we need to develop an action orientation, for which goals are the basis. They are also the basis for task lists, with an ever-updated Master List being used as a foundation for monthly, weekly and daily action lists. These lists, in turn, are used as a basis for prioritising and planning - with further lists of activities for each project or task.
Interestingly, Tracy uses a straight line prioritising tool - from A (frog) to E (eliminate), and does not mention the quadrant method which has become more prevalent recently, and which is advocated as an important tool for prioritisation in Stephen R. Covey's 'First Things First'.
One of the messages I liked was the recognition - which is not always given in time management books - that most people are operating at full or more than full capacity, so there is a need to accept that you will never catch up with everything you want to do. This is why you need to learn to focus on the 'frogs' and key result areas and learn 'creative procrastination' with regard to most of the rest.
I also liked the emphasis on long-term planning as a framework within which to set goals and priorities. There is sound advice on continual self-improvement, too. Tracy advocates identifying your strengths and weakenesses within the context of your key result areas, so that you can leverage your strengths and work to build skills and abilities in the weaker areas.
If you work well with lists, the book provides sound, easy-to-follow steps which will undoubtedly help you to build your personal effectiveness.
68 of 70 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is not a time management book. Think of it more as a 'stop procrastinating and sort your life out' book. I was given this book by a colleague and, ironically, it sat on the back seat of my car for two weeks before I said to myself "Oh, that book - I must have a look at it."
In less than half an hour I had read the preface, the intro and each chapter's introductory paragraph and concluding 'Eat That Frog!' action point. And that was enough for me to get up and do something straight away. I then read the detail in an evening (each of the 21 ideas forms a chapter that is only 2-3 pages long).
Brian is refreshingly frank and truthful from page one: "There is never enough time to do everything you have to do. You are never 'going to get caught up'. You will never get on top of all your tasks. No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available."
The book then presents some blindingly obvious but profound 'rules' for successful prioritisation, organisation and taking action. In fact, the core message is just that - do something!
Each of the 21 tips is a really practical, do-able idea, and Brian Tracy's writing style is sufficiently motivational to get me into action - doing things I already know I should be doing.
The gems contained in this book are so valuable that I think you'd get your money's worth if you only read the three-and-a-half page 'Putting It All Together' summary at the back. So do something: buy it!
81 of 84 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A book about time management and avoiding task avoidance needs to be short, sharp and to the point. This succeeds in every way.
With short pick up and put down chapters, easy to remember rules and highly entertaining analogies this book threatens the frog population worldwide.
As a master of procrastination, I finaly got round to reading this and haven't looked back since.
Buy it...
Read it...
Get on with it...and eat that frog.
With short pick up and put down chapters, easy to remember rules and highly entertaining analogies this book threatens the frog population worldwide.
As a master of procrastination, I finaly got round to reading this and haven't looked back since.
Buy it...
Read it...
Get on with it...and eat that frog.
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easy to read, easy to follow, good advice
Yes, if you only read the last chapter with the summary you'll get most of the value in a fraction of the time.... Read more
Published 24 days ago by E. Dalhuijsen
Stop reading after the title
You can stop reading after the title!
Ponder on the title name, because that is Mark Twain's concept of time management. Read more
Ponder on the title name, because that is Mark Twain's concept of time management. Read more
Published 26 days ago by VICTOR
Merely a booklet of unoriginal ideas
I purchased this item after I read "Maximum Achievement" and was taken with Bryan Tracy's style and ideas. Read more
Published 1 month ago by I. Lemm
A simple message, useful in parts but unoriginal
Short review:
Change the way you think about tasks. Focus on the truly important and throw away the rest. Just `get on with it! Read more
Change the way you think about tasks. Focus on the truly important and throw away the rest. Just `get on with it! Read more
Published 2 months ago by Andrew Lloyd Gordon
Daily Frogs
A colleague recommended this book when I spoke to them about my frustration on not seeming to be getting anywhere with work, despite being busy all the time. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Ace Garp
A Useful Summary of Ideas
When I started reading Eat That Frog I was disappointed that it seemed to be no more than a rehash of ideas that have been around for donkey's years, such as 'do the worst first',... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Grace Rostoker
A nice quick read...
There's nothing in there that you don't know. It's just a different approach, and it actually works for me. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Fawzy
Eat That Frog
Very direct and specific discussion of how to overcome procrastination. I would highly recommend it to any coach or aspiring coach.
Published 6 months ago by PM Grace
i ate that frog!
although the first time i attempted to read this book i gave up at chapter 5. i revisited and Ate That Frog (reading this book! Read more
Published 7 months ago by rouge
Very good
The book is a great book for that needed 'kick up the backside'. Very good practical tips in short chapters helps you start implimenting the principles straightaway. Read more
Published 9 months ago by J. Baker
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