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

Eat That Frog. 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time (Paperback)

by Brian Tracy (Author) "BEFORE YOU CAN determine your ""frog"" and get on with eating it, you have to decide exactly what you want to accomplish in each area..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Berrett-Koehler; 2 edition (1 Jan 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1576754227
  • ISBN-13: 978-1576754221
  • Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 85,234 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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There’s an old saying that if the first thing you do in the 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.

Eat That Frog! takes this saying 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 will have the greatest positive impact on your life. Bestselling author Brian Tracy shows how successful people don’t try to do everything, but instead focus on the most important tasks.

With three vital rules of effective personal time management: decision, discipline and determination, and twenty-one practical and doable steps to help you stop procrastinating, this book will appeal to anyone who wants to get more of those important tasks done - today! --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author
Brian Tracy is a leading authority on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness. He addresses over 250,000 people each year on the subjects of personal and professional development. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Little Book, 10 April 2006
Eat That Frog is short, snappy and to the point.
Most books of this nature drone on about how great they are, and how much they will change your life etc; but once you've finished reading them the hype evaporates and you carry on as before. This book is different. It's small and unassuming... but it packs a punch that you will never forget. Based on the effect it's had on me I can genuinely say that it's a life changing book, and I heartily recommend you give it a go. It's not like it's too expensive to buy!
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47 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A much needed kick-up-the-bum!!, 23 Feb 2006
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.
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72 of 75 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An easy read with a lot of sound advice., 12 Jun 2002
By Jill Hughes (Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant really funny gets the message across.
I found this book really good ,informative and funny it gets the message across i couldnt put it down until i had finished it.
Published 23 days ago by G. Mackley

5.0 out of 5 stars Recommend it.
I recommend this book to everyone to read. This book is very easy to read and is full of simple and interesting approaches to our time management. I really enjoyed it.
Published 4 months ago by Julie

3.0 out of 5 stars All common sense and repetitive. Very dissapointed.
As a serial procrastinater I bought this book hoping for some fresh ideas and insight on how to gain motivation. Read more
Published 8 months ago by R-B

5.0 out of 5 stars 21 Little Gems
A summary of simple and easy steps to boost your productivity in a slim, easily read book that's suitable for even the most time pressured of people. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Clare Evans

5.0 out of 5 stars absolutely mind altering
Ok, so my title might sound a bit over the top... That being said, the simple way the information in this book is made available to you, the reader, is absolutely fantastic. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Peter Martin Hartwig

5.0 out of 5 stars Condensed Version Of Previous Work..
As my title suggests, this particular book would be a condensation of other books pertaining to time keeping which Brian Tracy has written and recorded. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Dubbie

4.0 out of 5 stars One big, fat, ugly frog to go, please!
This is a very straight to the point book. If you want a more in depth study of procrastination, please read The Now Habit by Fiore (as a matter of fact, read it anyway... Read more
Published 15 months ago by MayGoodComeToUs

5.0 out of 5 stars Do the ugliest thing first!
I enjoyed reading this book, which was brilliantly written with some humour and really makes you think. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Ms. Ke Jewitt

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting read
An excellent guide to effective time management.The summary boils down to "Do the most improtant thing first". Read more
Published 19 months ago by amateurnlper

5.0 out of 5 stars A pragmatic real world manual
A pragmatic guide to how to get more IMPORTANT things done in a day. There is always too much to do, what matters is ensuring that you do the things that will make the most... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Kevin Roberts

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