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

preface thank you for choosing this book I hope these ideas help you as much as they have helped me and thousands of others, in fact, I hope this book changes your life forever there is never enough

time

to do everything you have to do, Literally inundated with work and personal responsibilities, end

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emails, social media projects, stacks of magazines to read, and stacks of books you intend to read one of these days as soon as you catch up, but the fact is you'll never get caught up. . You will never stay on top of your tasks, you will never get far enough to reach all those emails, books, magazines and free

time

activities you dream of and you will forget to solve your time management problems by becoming

more

productive without No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will al

ways

be

more

to do than you can accomplish in the time you have available, no matter how much it is, you can control the time in your life just by changing the way you think about work and coping.

With the end

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river of responsibilities that flows over you every day, you will be able to take control of your tasks and activities only to the extent that you

stop

doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life. his life. your life I have studied time management for over 40 years I have immersed myself in the works of Peter Drucker Alec McKenzie Alan Laken Stephen Covey and many many others I have read hundreds of books and thousands of articles on efficiency and personal effectiveness This book is The result , whenever I found a good idea, I tried it in my own work and personal life.

If it worked, I incorporated it into my talks and seminars and taught it to others. Galileo once wrote: you cannot teach a man anything, you can only help he will find it within himself depending on his level of knowledge and experience these ideas may sound familiar to you this book will take you to a higher level of consciousness as he learns and Apply these methods and techniques over and over again until they become habits. You will alter the course of your life in a very positive way by learning from successful people. Let me tell you something about myself.

At the origins of this little book, I started out in life with few advantages. Apart from a curious mind I did poorly in school and left without graduating I worked in labor jobs for several years My future did not look promising When I was young I got a job on a freighter and went to see the world for eight years I traveled and worked and then I traveled some more and eventually visited over 80 countries on five continents when I couldn't find a job anymore I got into sales knocking on doors working on direct commission I struggled from sale to sale until I started looking around and wondering why that other people are doing better than me then. something that changed my life I started asking successful people what they were doing that allowed them to be more productive and make more money than me and they told me I did what they advised me to do and my sales increased, eventually I became so successful that they named me sales manager as a sales manager I used the same strategy.

I asked successful managers what they did to achieve such good results and when they told me that I did it myself in a short time I began to obtain the same results as them. Did this process of learning and applying what I had learned change my life? I'm still amazed at how simple and obvious it is to simply find out what other successful people do and do the same things until you get the same results. Learn from the experts. That! The success of an idea is predictable, simply put, some people do better than others because they do things differently and do the right things well, especially successful, happy and prosperous people use their time much better than the rest. average person who comes from a failed background that I had developed deeply. feelings of inferiority and inadequacy had fallen into the mental trap of assuming that people who did better than me were actually better than me.

What I learned was that this was not necessarily true, they were simply doing things differently and what They had learned to do Within reason, I was also able to learn this was a revelation to me. I was amazed and excited by this discovery. I still am. I realized that I could change my life and achieve almost any goal I could set if I found out what others were doing. in that area and then I did it myself until I got the same results they were getting a year after starting in sales. He was a top seller a year later.

They appointed me manager within three years. I became a vice president in charge of a 95 person sales force in six countries I was 25 years old Over the years I have worked 22 different jobs Started and built several companies Obtained a business degree from a major university Learned to speak French German and Spanish and I was a speaker trainer a consultant for more than a thousand companies I currently give talks and seminars to more than 250,000 people each year with audiences of up to 20,000 people a simple truth throughout my career I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth : the ability to focus purposefully on what is most important An important task is to do it well and complete it completely is the key to achieving

great

success, respect for status and happiness in life.

This key idea is the heart and soul of this book. This book is written to show you how to move forward faster in your life. career and to simultaneously enrich your personal life these pages contain the 21 most powerful principles of personal effectiveness that I have discovered these methods techniques and strategies are proven practices and fast acting in the interest of time I do not dwell on the various psychological or emotional explanations For the procrastination or poor time management, there are no long detours into theory or research. What you'll learn are specific actions you can take right away to get better, faster results in your work and increase your happiness.

Every idea in this book focuses on increasing your overall well-being. levels of productivity, performance and results and to make you more valuable in anything you do, you can apply many of these ideas to your personal life and each of these 21 methods and techniques is complete in itself, they are all necessary, a strategy can be effective in one. situation and another could be applied to another task in total these 21 ideas represent a smorgasbord of personal effectiveness techniques that you can use at any time in any order or sequence that makes sense for you at this moment the key to success is action these principles They work to achieve rapid, predictable improvements in performance and results, the faster you learn and apply them, the faster you will advance in your career, guaranteed there will be no limit to what you can achieve when you learn to eat that

frog

brian tracy solana beach california january 2017 introduction, eat that

frog

, this is a wonderful time to be alive, there have never been more possibilities and opportunities for you to achieve more of your goals than there are today, perhaps never before in the history of humanity , you are actually drowning in options, in fact, there are so many. good things that you can do and that your ability to decide between them can be the critical determinant of what you will achieve in life.

If you're like most people today, you feel overwhelmed with too much to do in too little time while you struggle to catch up. new tasks and responsibilities keep coming like ocean waves because of this you will never be able to do everything you need to do you will never get caught up you will al

ways

be behind on some of your tasks and responsibilities and probably in many of them you need to be selective for this reason and maybe More than ever your ability to select your most important task at any given time and then get started on that task and do it quickly and well will likely matter more. impact on your success than any other quality or skill that can be developed by an average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and completing important tasks quickly will circle around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little

done

. truth about frogs it has been said that if the first thing you do every morning is eat a live frog you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to everyone.

Throughout the day, your frog is your most important task, the one you are most likely to put off if you don't do something about it. It is also the task that can have the

great

est positive impact on your life and your results at the moment. The first rule of eating frogs is this: if you had to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first. This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you start the bigger, more difficult, more important task, first discipline yourself to start right away and then persist until you complete the task before moving on to something else.

Think of this as a Try treating it as a personal challenge Resist the temptation to start with the easiest task Continually remember that one of the most important decisions you make each day is what you will do immediately and what you will do next if you do it. The second rule of eating frogs is this: if you have to eat a live frog, it's not worth sitting and staring at it for too long. The key to achieving high levels of performance and productivity is to develop the lifelong habit of tackling your main task first thing in the morning.

You should develop a routine of eating the frog before doing anything else and without taking too much time to think about it. Immediate action In study after study of men and women who are paid more and promoted faster, the quality of action orientation stands out as the most observable and consistent behavior they demonstrate in everything they do. Successful and effective people are those who launch themselves straight into their primary tasks and then discipline themselves to work steadily and purposefully until those tasks are complete. failure in execution is one of the biggest problems in organizations today many people confuse activity with achievement, they talk continuously, hold endless meetings and make wonderful plans, but in the final analysis no one does the work and obtains the required results develops habits of success your success in life and at work will be determined by the types of habits you develop over time the habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination and moving forward with your most important task is a mental task and physical skill as such , this habit can be learned through practice and repetition over and over again until it becomes fixed in your subconscious mind and becomes a permanent part of your behavior.

Once it becomes a habit, it becomes automatic and easy to do. completing important tasks has an immediate and ongoing reward you are mentally and emotionally designed in such a way that completing the task gives you a positive feeling makes you happy makes you feel like a winner every time you complete a task of size or importance you feel a surge of energy, enthusiasm and self-esteem the more important the task completed, the happier, more confident and more powerful you will feel about yourself in your world, the completion of an important task triggers the release of endorphins in your brain, these endorphins give you a natural high the rush of endorphins that follows the successful completion of any task makes you feel more positive, friendly, creative and confident, develops a positive addiction.

Here is one of the so-called most important secrets of success. In fact, you can develop a positive addiction to the endorphins and the feeling of greater clarity, confidence and competence that they trigger. When you develop this addiction, on an unconscious level you will begin to organize your life in such a way that you continually start and complete tasks and projects every time. most important, you will actually become addicted in a very positive sense of success and contribution. One of the keys to living a wonderful life, having a successful career, and feeling great about yourself is to develop the habit of starting and finishing important work.

When you do, this behavior will take on a power of its own. and you will find it easier to complete important tasks than not to complete them without shortcuts you remember the story of the man who

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s a musician on a street in New York and asks him how he can get to Carnegie Hall the musician answers practice man practice practice is the key to master any skill, fortunately your mind is like a muscle, it becomes stronger and more capable with use, with practice you can learn any behavior or develop any habit that you consider desirable or necessary, the three D's of forming new habits that you need . three key qualities to developing learnable habits of focus and concentration: discipline of decision and determination, first make a decision to develop the habit of completing tasks, second, discipline yourself to practice the principles you are about to learn over and over again untilbecome automatic and third, step back from everything you do with determination until the habit takes hold and becomes a permanent part of your personality.

Visualize yourself as you want to be. There is a special way you can accelerate your progress toward becoming the highly productive, effective, and efficient person you want to be by continually thinking about the rewards and benefits of being a focused, action-oriented, moving person. fast and see yourself as the kind of person who gets important jobs

done

quickly and consistently well. Your mental image of yourself has a powerful effect on your behavior Visualize yourself as the person you intend to be in the future Your self-image The way you see yourself on the inside largely determines your performance on the outside All improvements in your outer life begin With improvements inside your mental images you have a virtually unlimited capacity to learn and develop new skills, habits and abilities when you train yourself through repetition and practice to overcome procrastination and quickly complete your most important tasks, you will move onto the fast track in your life and career and you will step on the accelerator of your potential, eat that frog, chapter one, set the table, there is one quality that one must possess to win and that is certainty of purpose the knowledge of what one wants in a burning desire to achieve it napoleon hill Before you can determine your frog and get on with the business of eating it you have to decide exactly what you want to achieve in Clarity of every area of ​​your life is perhaps the most important concept in personal productivity.

The number one reason some people get more work done faster is because they are absolutely clear about their goals and objectives and don't deviate from them the greater the clarity. When you know what you want in terms of the steps you will need to take to achieve it, the easier it will be to overcome procrastination, eat the frog, and complete the task before you. One of the main reasons for procrastination and lack of motivation is vagueness, confusion and confusion. about what you are trying to do and in what order and for what reason you should avoid this common condition with all your might by striving for increasing clarity in your main objectives and tasks.

Here's a great rule for success. Think on paper only three. Percent of adults have clear written goals. These people achieve five and ten times more than people with equal or better education and ability, but who for some reason have never taken the time to write exactly what they want. There is a powerful formula for setting and achieving goals that you can use for the rest of your life. It consists of seven simple steps. Any of these steps can double and triple your productivity if you are not currently using it. Many of my graduates have increased their income dramatically in just a few minutes.

In a few years or even a few months with this simple seven-part method, the first step is to decide exactly what you want, either decide for yourself or sit down with your boss and discuss your goals and objectives until you have very clear what is expected of you and in what. Order of Priority It's surprising how many people work day after day on low-value tasks because they haven't had this critical discussion with their managers. One of the worst uses of time is doing something very well that you don't need to do at all Stephen Covey says if the ladder isn't leaning against the right wall, every step we take only takes us to the wrong place faster step two write it down Think on paper when you write down a goal, it will crystallize it and give it a tangible form that you create something you can touch and see, on the other hand, a goal or objective that is not written down is simply a wish or a fantasy, it has no energy behind it. , unwritten goals lead to confusion, vagueness, misdirection and numerous errors, the third step sets a deadline for your goal set subdeadlines if necessary a goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency it has no beginning or actual end without a defined deadline accompanied by the assignment or acceptance of specific responsibilities for completion you will naturally procrastinate and get very little done step four a list of everything you can think of that you will need to do to achieve your goal as you go.

When you think of new activities Add them to your list Keep building your list until it is complete A list gives you a visual image of the larger task or goal, gives you a clue to execute it, dramatically increases the likelihood that you will achieve your goal just as You have defined it and as scheduled, step five organize the list into a plan, organize your list by priority and sequence, list all the tasks in order. need to be done Take a few minutes to decide what needs to be done first and what you can do next Decide what needs to be done first and what needs to be done next Even better, lay out your plan visually as a series of boxes and circles on a sheet of paper with lines and arrows showing the relationship of each task to all the others.

You will be surprised how easy it is to achieve your goal when you break it down into individual tasks with a goal written into an organized action plan, you will be much more productive and efficient than people who carry their goals in their minds. step six take action on your plan immediately do something do anything an average plan executed vigorously is much better than a brilliant plan in which nothing is done for you to achieve any kind of success execution is everything step 7 resolve to do something every day that takes you towards your main goal incorporate this activity into your daily schedule you can decide to read a specific number of pages on a key topic, you can call a specific number of prospects or clients, you can participate in a specific period of physical exercise , you can learn a certain number of new words in a foreign language, whatever it is, you should never miss a day, keep moving forward. once you start moving, keep moving, don't stop this decision, this discipline alone can dramatically increase your speed of goal achievement and increase your personal productivity, the power of written goals, clear written goals have a wonderful effect in your way of thinking, they motivate you and drive you to action they stimulate your creativity they release your energy and help you overcome procrastination as much as any other factor goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement the bigger and clearer your goals are The more excited you will be to achieve them, the more you think about your goals, the greater your internal drive and desire to achieve them will be.

Think about your goals and review them daily every morning when you start. Take action on the most important task you can do to achieve your goal. important right now eat that frog 1 Take a blank sheet of paper right now and make a list of 10 goals you want to achieve in the next year. Write down your goals as if a year has passed and they are now a reality. Use the positive voice in the present tense and the first person singular. so that your subconscious mind accepts them immediately, for example, you could write I earn x amount of dollars per year by this date or I weigh x number of pounds by this date or I drive such a car by this date 2.

Review your list of 10 goals and select the goal that, if achieved, would have the greatest positive impact on your life, whatever that goal is, write it down on a separate piece of paper, set a deadline, make a plan, take action on your plan, and then do it. something each day that moves you toward that goal this exercise alone could change your life chapter two planning ahead every day planning is bringing the future into the present so you can do something about it now alan l-a-k-e-i and you've heard the old question how you eat an elephant the answer is one bite at a time how you eat your biggest, ugliest frog the same way you break it down into specific activities step by step and then you start with the first one your mind your ability to think, plan and decide It is your most powerful tool to overcome procrastination and increase your productivity Your ability to set goals Make plans and act accordingly Determines the course of your life The very act of thinking and planning Unlocks your mental powers Unleashes your creativity and increases your mental energies and Physically, conversely, as Alec McKenzie wrote, acting without thinking things through is a major source of problems.

Your ability to make good plans before acting as a measure of your overall competence. The better the plan you have, the easier it will be for you. To overcome procrastination, start eating the frog and then continue, increase your energy return, one of your main goals at work should be to get the highest possible return on the investment of your mental, emotional and physical energy. The good news is that every minute spent planning saves up to 10 minutes in execution. It will only take you 10 to 12 minutes to plan your day, but this small investment of time will save you up to 2 hours, 100 to 120 minutes in wasted time and diffuse effort.

Throughout the day, you may have heard about the 6p formula. He says that proper pre-planning prevents poor performance when you consider how helpful planning can be in increasing your productivity and performance. It's amazing to see how many people practice it every day and the planning is actually quite simple. To do all you need is a sheet of paper and a pen, the most sophisticated computer application or time planner of the Outlook system is based on the same principle, it is based on sitting down and making a list of everything you have to do before starting two extra hours a day always work from a list when something new comes up, add it to the list before you do it, you can increase your productivity and output by 25 or more approximately two hours a day from the first day you start working constant from a Make your list the night before for the next work day, move everything you haven't accomplished yet to your list for the next day, and then add everything you have to do the next day when you make your list the night before to your subconscious mind.

You will work on your list all night while you sleep. You will often wake up with great ideas and knowledge that you can use to do your job faster and better than you initially thought. The more time you take to make written lists of everything you need. The more you have to do in advance, the more effective and efficient you will be. Different lists for different purposes. You need different lists for different purposes. First you must create a master list in which you write everything that comes to mind and that you want to do at some point during the year. future, this is the place where you capture every idea and every new task or responsibility that arises.

You can sort the items later. Second. You should have a monthly list that you make at the end of the month for the following month. This may contain items. transferred from your master list Thirdly, you should have a weekly list where you plan the entire week in advance. This is a list that is under construction as the current week progresses. This discipline of systematic time planning can be very helpful to you. Many people have done it. told me that the habit of taking a couple of hours at the end of each week to plan for the next week has dramatically increased their productivity and completely changed their lives.

This technique will work for you too. Finally, you should transfer items from your monthly and weekly account. lists on your daily list these are the specific activities you are going to do the next day as you work throughout the day check off items on your list as you complete them this activity gives you a visual image of accomplishments creates a feeling of success and progress seeing yourself working progressively on your list motivates and energizes you, increases your self-esteem and self-respect constant, visible progress propels you forward and helps you overcome procrastination planning a project when you have a project of any kind, Start by making a list of each step you will need to complete to finish the project from start to finish, organize the steps by priority, what is most important, and sequence the tasks you need to complete to lay out the project in front of you on paper or on a Computer-based project planner so you can see each step of the task and then start working on one task at a time.

You'll be surprised how much you can do this way. As you work on your lists, you will feel more and more effective. and powerful, you will feel more in control of your life, you will be naturally motivated to do even more, you will think better and more creatively and you will come up with more and better ideas that will allow you to get your work done even faster as you steadily work on his life. list you will develop a sense of positive forward momentum that will allow you to overcome procrastination this feeling of progress will give you more energy and keep you going throughout the day one of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10 or 90 rule this rule says The first 10 percent of the time you spend planning and organizing your work before you start will save you up to90% of the time needed to complete the job once it has started.

You only have to try this rule once to prove it to yourself when If you plan each day in advance, you will find it much easier to get up and running, the work will go faster and smoother than ever. You will feel more powerful and competent. You'll get more done faster than you thought possible. Eventually you will become unstoppable eat that frog start today planning every day a week and a month in advance grab a notebook or a piece of paper or use your smartphone and make a list of everything you have to do in the next 24 hours add it to your list as new items arrive Make a list of all your projects, the big multitasking jobs that are important to your future. 2.

Arrange all your major goals, projects, and tasks by priority, what's most important, and by sequence, what needs to be done first, what comes second. and so on start with the end in mind and work backwards think on paper always work from a list you will be surprised how much more productive you become and how easy it is to eat your frog chapter 3 apply the 80 or 20 rule We always have enough time for everything if we use it correctly Johann Wolfgang von Gurda The 80 or 20 rule is one of the most useful concepts in time and life management. It is also called the Pareto principle in honor of the Italian economist Vilfredo Parloo, who wrote for first time about this in 1895.

Pareto noted that people in his society seemed to naturally divide into what he called the vital few (the top 20 percent in terms of money and influence) and the trivial many (the bottom 80 percent). . all economic activity was subject to this principle also for example this principle says that 20 of your activities will represent 80 of your results 20 of your clients will represent 80 of your sales 20 of your products or services will represent 80 of your profits 20 of your tasks will represent 80 of value of what you do, etc., this means that if you have a list of 10 items to do, two of those items will be worth much more than the other eight items combined, number of tasks versus importance of tasks here.

It's an interesting discovery: each of the ten tasks may take the same amount of time, but one or two of those tasks will provide five or ten times the value of any of the others. Often, a single task can be worth more than all the others. Nine items together This task is invariably the frog you must eat first Can you guess which items the average person is most likely to procrastinate on? The sad reality is that most people procrastinate on the top 10 or 20 percent of items that are most valuable and important. The vital few deal instead with the least important. 80 The trivial many that contribute very little to life. results focus on activities not achievements you often see people who seem to be busy all day but seem to accomplish very little this is almost always because they are busy working on tasks that are of little value while postponing one or two activities that, if completed them quickly and well, they could make a real difference to their companies and their careers.

The most valuable tasks you can do. Each day are often the most difficult and complex, but the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous, which is why you should absolutely refuse to work on tasks in the bottom eighty percent while you still have tasks left. the top twenty percent. Before you start working, always ask yourself if this task is in the top twenty percent of my activities or the bottom eighty percent. Resist the temptation to clear up the small things first. Remember what you choose to do over and over again, it will eventually become a habit that is difficult to break.

If you choose to start your day working on low-value tasks, you will soon develop the habit of always starting and working on low-value tasks. This is not the type of habit you want to develop or maintain. Low-value tasks are like rabbits. They continually multiply You never get stuck The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place Once you actually start working on a valuable task You will be naturally motivated to continue Part of your mind loves to be busy working on important tasks that can really make a difference your job is to feed this part of your mind to continually motivate yourself just thinking about starting and finishing an important task motivates you and helps you overcome procrastination the fact is that the time required to complete a Important work is often the same time it takes to do unimportant work, the difference is that you gain a tremendous feeling of pride and satisfaction from completing something valuable and meaningful;

However, when you complete a low-value task using the same amount of time and energy, you get little back. or not satisfaction time management is really life management personal management is really taking control of the sequence of events time management is taking control over what you do next and you are always free to choose the task you will do next Below your ability to choose between what is important and what is not important is the key determinant of your success in life and at work. Effective and productive people discipline themselves to begin the most important task at hand.

They force themselves to eat that frog, whatever it is. As a result they achieve much more than the average person and as a result are much happier, this should be your way of working too, eat that frog, make a list of all the key goals, activities, projects and responsibilities in your life today, which of them are or could be in the top 10. or 20 of tasks that represent or could represent 80 or 90 of your results 2. Decide today that you are going to spend more and more time working on those few areas that can really make a difference in your life and career and spend less and less time in activities of lesser value chapter 4 consider the consequences every great man has become great every successful man has succeeded in proportion as he has limited his powers to a particular channel orris and sudor martin the mark of the superior thinker is his ability to predict with precision the consequences of doing or not doing something the potential consequences of any task or activity are the key determinants of how important a task really is to you and your company this way of evaluating the importance of a task is how you determine what your Next frog really is Dr.

Edward Banfield of Harvard University after more than 50 years of research he concluded that a long-term perspective is the most accurate predictor of upward social and economic mobility in America. A long-term perspective turns out to be more important. In addition to family background, education, race, intelligence, connections - virtually every other factor that determines your success in life and work - your attitude towards time, your time horizon, has a huge impact on your behavior and their choices, people who take a long-term view of their lives. and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who think very little about the future.

Long-term thinking improves short-term decision making. Successful people have a clear orientation towards the future. They think 5 10 and 20 years. looking into the future they analyze their choices and behaviors in the present to make sure that what they are doing today is consistent with the long-term future they want to make better decisions about time in their work have a clear idea of ​​what is really important to you in the long term makes it much easier for you to make better decisions about your short-term priorities, by definition something that is important has potential long-term consequences something that is not important has few or no potential long-term consequences before start Anything, you should always ask yourself what the possible consequences are of doing or not doing this task.

The rule influences future intentions and often determines present actions. The clearer you are about your future intentions, the more influence that clarity will have on what you do in the moment. With a clear long-term vision you are much better able to evaluate an activity in the present to make sure it is consistent with what you really want to finish. Think long term. Successful people are those who are willing to delay gratification and make sacrifices. in the short term to enjoy much greater rewards; In the long term, people who fail, on the other hand, think more about short-term pleasure and immediate gratification, while paying little attention to the long-term future.

Dennis Waitley, a motivational speaker, says losers try. Escape your fears and drudgery with tension-relieving activities. Winners are motivated by their desires toward activities that achieve goals, for example, getting to work earlier. Read regularly in your field. Take courses to improve your skills and focus on high-value tasks. All the work will combine to have a huge positive impact on your future; On the other hand, arriving at work at the last minute, reading the newspaper, drinking coffee, and socializing with your coworkers may seem fun and enjoyable in the short term, but it inevitably leads to lack. of promotion low achievement and long-term frustration If a task or activity has large potential positive consequences, make it a top priority and start doing it immediately If something can have large potential negative consequences if not done quickly and well, that becomes In a top priority, as well as whatever your frog is, decide to swallow it.

The first thing that motivation requires is the motive. The greater the potential positive impact that an action or behavior of yours can have on your life, once you clearly define it, the more motivated you will be to overcome procrastination. and do it quickly stay focused and moving forward by continually starting and completing those tasks that can make a big difference to your business and your future time will pass anyway the only question is how you use it and where it is located you will end up at the end of the weeks and months that pass and where you end up is largely a matter of the amount of consideration you give to the possible consequences of your actions in the short term.

Continually thinking about the possible consequences of your choices. decisions and behaviors is one of the best ways to determine your true priorities in your work and personal life. Obey the law of forced efficiency. The law of forced efficiency says that there is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do everything. Most importantly, to put it another way, you can't eat all the tadpoles and frogs in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest ones, and that will be enough at least for the moment, when you're running out of time and you know that the consequences of not completing a key task or project can be really serious you seem to always find the time to do it often at the last minute you start early you stay late and strive to complete the work rather than face the hassles that would follow If you didn't complete it within the time limit rule, there will never be enough time to do everything you need to do.

The average person in business today, especially a manager in the era of downsizing, is working between 110 and 130 capacity and jobs. and the responsibilities keep piling up we all have piles of reading material that we still have to read many people have hundreds of hours of reading and projects behind at home and in the office what this means is that you will never be caught get that illusion idea out of your mind the only thing you can hope for is to stay on top of your most important responsibilities others will simply have to wait deadlines are an excuse many people say they work better under the pressure of deadlines unfortunately, years of research indicates that this rarely happens time is true 0.1 under the pressure of deadlines often created by themselves through procrastination people suffer more stress make more mistakes and have to redo more tasks than under any other conditions often the mistakes people make when working with Tight deadlines lead to defects and cost overruns that cause substantial financial losses in the long run, sometimes a job takes much longer to complete when people rush to finish it at the last minute and then have to redo it, it is much better to plan your time carefully with anticipation and then incorporate it.

A considerable buffer to compensate for unexpected delays and detours, regardless of how long you think a task will take, add another 20 percent or more as insurance or play to finish the work well before the deadline, you will be surprised at how much more relaxed you are and how much better you do your job when you stay on top of your most important tasks three questions to get themaximum productivity you can use three questions on a regular basis to stay focused on completing your most important tasks on time the first The question is what are my highest value activities?

Put another way, what are the biggest frogs you should eat to make the biggest contribution to your organization, to your family, to your life in general? This is one of the most important questions you can ask and answer what are your highest value activities, first think about this yourself and then ask your boss, ask your coworkers and subordinates, ask your friends and family, like focus the lens of a camera, you need to be very clear about what your highest-value activities are before you start working. The second question you can continually ask yourself is what can I and only I do?

If I do it right, it will make a real difference. This question came from the late Peter Drucker, the management guru. It is one of the most important questions to achieve personal effectiveness. Can you and only you do that if done right? It can make a real difference. This is something only you can do. If you don't do it, no one else will, but if you do it and you do it well. It can really make a difference in your life and career. What is this particular frog to you every hour of every day? You can ask yourself this question and find a specific answer.

Your job is to get clear on the answer and then get started. and work on this task first and foremost the third question you can ask is what is the most valuable use of my time right now in other words what is my biggest frog of all right now this is the central question of time management time answering this question correctly is the key to overcoming procrastination and becoming a highly productive person every hour of every day a task represents the most valuable use of your time at that moment your job is to ask yourself this question over and over again and always be working on the answer whatever it is, do the first and the second, not at all as Gurda said, the things that matter most should never be at the mercy of the things that matter least, the more precise your answers to these three questions, the easier it will be for you to set clear priorities to overcome procrastination and start with that activity that represents the most valuable use of your time, eat that frog, review your list of tasks, activities and projects regularly, continually ask yourself which project or activity if I did it in an excellent and timely manner would have the greatest positive consequences in my work or my personal life. 2.

Determine what is the most important thing you could do each hour of each day and then discipline yourself to continually work on the most valuable use of your time. What is this for you right now? Anything that can help you more. Set it as a goal. Make a plan to achieve it and get to work on your plan. Immediately remember Gerda's wonderful words. Just participate and the mind warms up. Starts. and the work will be completed chapter five practice creative procrastination set aside time to accomplish big tasks every day plan your daily workload in advance highlight the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be doneImmediately in the morning, then go straight to the big tasks and Continue until completed.

Boardroom Reports. Creative procrastination is one of the most effective personal performance techniques. It can change your life. The fact is that you can't do everything you need to do. Do you have to procrastinate on something? Therefore, you deliberately and consciously put off small tasks. You put off eating smaller or less ugly frogs. Eat the biggest, ugliest frogs first. Do the worst first. Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high and low performers is largely determined by how they choose to procrastinate, since you have to procrastinate anyway. Decide today to procrastinate on low-value activities. Decide to procrastinate by outsourcing, delegating, and eliminating those activities that don't contribute much to your life. focus on frogs priorities vs posteriorities, here is a key point to setting proper priorities, you need to set posteriorities and a priority is something you do earlier while a posteriority is something you do less and later, if that governs it.

You can control your time and your life only to the extent that you stop lower-value activities. One of the most powerful words in time management is the word No, say it politely, say it clearly so there are no misunderstandings, say it regularly. As a normal part of his time management vocabulary, Warren Buffett, one of the richest men in the world, was once asked what his secret was to achieving success. He answered simply, I just say no to everything that is not absolutely vital to me right now, I say no to everything that is not a valuable use of your time in your life say no gracefully but firmly to avoid accepting something against your will say it early and say it often remember you have no free time as we say your dance card is full so you can do something new you must complete or stop doing something old enter requires exit pick up means leave the Creative procrastination is the act of thoughtfully and deliberately deciding exactly the things you are not going to do right now if you ever put things off on purpose.

Most people engage in unconscious procrastination. They procrastinate without thinking about it. As a result, they postpone important and valuable tasks that can have significant long-term consequences on their lives and careers. You should avoid this common tendency at all costs. Your job is to deliberately procrastinate. tasks that are low value so that you have more time for tasks that can make a big difference in your life and work Continually review your duties and responsibilities to identify time-consuming tasks and activities that you can abandon without real loss. continuous responsibility towards you that never ends, for example, a friend of mine was an avid golfer when he was single he liked to play golf three or four times a week, for three to four hours at a time over a period of years, he started a business, He married and had two children, but continued to play golf three or four times a week until he finally realized that the time he spent on the golf course was causing him enormous stress at home and at the office.

Only by abandoning most of his golf games could he get his life back. controlled and did it, reduced to one round of golf a week and transformed his life, especially his home life, established subsequent activities in time-consuming activities, continually reviews his life and work to find time-consuming tasks and activities that you can abandon and reduce. watching television and surfing the Internet and instead spending time with your family reading exercising or doing something else that improves your quality of life observing your work activities and identifying tasks you could delegate or eliminate to free up more time for the work you need. really counts start today to practice creative procrastination establish posteriorities where and when you can this decision alone can allow you to have your time and your life under control eat that frog one practice zero-based thinking in every part of your life continually ask yourself if yes If I weren't doing this knowing what I now know, would I start doing it again today if it's something I wouldn't start again today knowing what I now know?

It is a prime candidate for creative abandonment or procrastination. 2. Examine each of your personal aspects and work activities and evaluate them based on your current situation Select at least one activity to abandon immediately or at least deliberately postpone until your most important goals have been achieved chapter 6 use the abcde method continually first law of success is concentration to bend all obstacles energies to one point and go directly to that point without looking either to the right or to the left william matthews the more you think about planning and setting priorities before you start, the more important things you will do , the faster you will do them once you start, the more important and valuable a task is to you, the more likely you will be motivated to overcome procrastination and throw yourself into work.

The ABCDE method is a powerful prioritization technique that you can use every day. simple and effective that alone can make you one of the most efficient and effective people in your field think on paper the power of this technique lies in its simplicity this is how it works start with a list of everything you have to do to The next day, think on a piece of paper, then put an a b c d or e next to each item on your list before you start the first task and an item is defined as something that is very important, something that you must do, this is a task that you will have serious consequences. positive or negative consequences if you do or don't do it, such as visiting a key client or finishing a report your boss needs for an upcoming board meeting, these items are the frogs of your life, if you have more than one task , prioritize these tasks by writing a1 a2 a3 and so on in front of each item your task a1 is your ugliest frog of all the homework versus homework an item b is defined as a task that you must do but it only has mild consequences these are the tadpoles of In your work life this means that someone may be unhappy or inconvenienced if you don't do one of these tasks, but nowhere is it as important as a task, returning an unimportant phone message or checking your email would be a task b, the rule is that you should never do a task b when there is a task left undone you should never be distracted by a tadpole when a big frog is sitting there waiting to be eaten a task c is defined as something that would be nice to do but for which there are no consequences not at all Whether you do it or not, you see that tasks include calling a friend, having coffee or lunch with a coworker, and completing some personal matters during work hours.

These types of activities have no effect on your work life. A task is defined as something you can do. Delegating to another person The rule is that you should delegate everything that someone else can do so that you can have more time for the eight tasks that only you can do. A task is defined as something you can completely eliminate and it won't. make a real difference this may be a task that was important at one time but is no longer relevant to you or anyone else often it is something you continue to do out of habit or because you enjoy it, but every minute you spend in an e - task is the time taken away from any task or activity that can make a real difference in your life.

After you have applied the abcde method to your list, you will be completely organized and ready to do the most important things faster, act immediately , the key to making this a b c e method work is for you to now discipline yourself to immediately start with your task a1 and then stay on it until it is complete, use your willpower to start and continue on this work, the most important task that I can do. Eat the whole frog and don't stop until it's completely finished. Your ability to think through and analyze your work list and determine your a1 task is the springboard to higher levels of achievement and greater self-esteem, self-respect, and personal pride when you develop the habit of focusing on your most important activity: eating your frog. , you will start to do more things than two or three people around you, eat that frog, review your work list right now and put a b c d or e next to each task or activity select your job or project a1 and start with it immediately discipline yourself to Do nothing else until this work is complete 2.

Practice this ABCDE method every day for the next month on each list of jobs or projects before you start working. After a month you will have developed the habit of setting and working on your tasks. higher priority and your future will be assured. chapter 7 focus on key result areas when every physical and mental resource is focused one's power to solve a problem is multiplied tremendously norman vincent peale why am i on the payroll, this is one of the most important questions you can ask and answer over and over again throughout your career, as it happens that most people are not sure exactly why they are on the payroll, but if you are not very clear about why you are on the payroll, the payroll and the results for which you have been hired it is very difficult for you to perform at your best receive more pay and a faster promotion in simple terms you have been hired to obtain specific results a salary or salary is a payment for a The specific quality and quantity of Work that can be combined with the work of others to create a product or service that customers are willing to pay for Your work can be divided into approximately five to seven key result areas, rarely more, these represent the results that you absolutely positive you have to fulfill your responsibilities and make your maximum contribution to your organization an area ofkey results is defined as something for which you are completely responsible if you don't do it it doesn't get done a key result area is an activity that is under your control produces a result that becomes an input or a contributing factor to the work of others.

Key result areas are similar to the body's vital functions, such as those indicated by blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, and brain wave activity. The absence of any of these vital functions leads to the death of the organism, likewise, your failure to perform in a critical outcome area of ​​your job can lead to the end of your job, as well as the Big Seven in management and sales. The key result areas of management are planning, organizing, staffing, delegation, supervision, measurement and reporting. These are the areas in which a manager must achieve results to be successful in their area of ​​responsibility.

A weakness in any of these areas can lead to poor performance and failure as a result. For a manager, the key result areas of sales are prospecting, building relationships and trust, identifying needs, persuasive presentation, responding to objections, closing the sale and obtaining resales and references. Poor performance in any of these key skills can lead to lower sales and sometimes failure for a salesperson. You must have certain essential skills to be able to do your job excellently. These demands are constantly changing. You have already developed core competencies that allow you to do your job in the first place, but certain key outcomes are fundamental to your job and determine your success or failure in your job what they are Clarity is essential the starting point of high performance is that you identify the key result areas of your work discuss them with your boss make a list of your most important production responsibilities and ensure that the people above you you at the same level as you and below you agree to this, for example, for a salesperson, getting qualified appointments as a key result area, this activity is the key to the entire sales process, closing a sale It is also a key result area when the sale is made, it triggers the activities of many other people to produce and deliver the product or service for a business owner or a key executive, negotiating a bank loan can be a key result area , hiring the right people and delegating effectively are both things. key result areas for a receptionist or secretary writing letters, answering the phone and transferring calls quickly and efficiently or defined as key result areas, people's ability to perform these tasks quickly and efficiently largely determines their salary and promotion, give yourself a rating Once you have determined your key result areas, the second step is for you to rate yourself on a scale of one to ten, with one being the lowest and ten being the highest in each of those areas where you are strong and where you are weak, where you are achieving great results and Rule of where you are underperforming: your weakest key result area sets the height at which you can use all your other skills and abilities .

This rule says that although you may be exceptional in six of your seven key result areas, poor performance in the seventh area will persist. You step back and determine how much you accomplish with all your other skills. This weakness will act as a drag on your effectiveness and will be a constant source of friction and frustration. For example, delegating is a key result area for a manager. This ability is the key point of leverage. It allows a manager to manage and obtain results through others. A manager who cannot delegate adequately cannot use all of her other skills at maximum levels of effectiveness.

Poor delegation skills alone can lead to failure at work. Poor performance produces procrastination. One of the main reasons for procrastination in the workplace is that people avoid jobs and activities in those areas in which they have performed poorly in the past, instead of setting a goal to make a plan to improve in an area. In particular, most people avoid that area altogether, which The only thing that makes the situation worse is that the better you are in a particular skill area, the more motivated you will be to perform that function, the less you will procrastinate, and the more determined you will be. you will be.

You will have to finish the job. The fact is that everyone has strengths and weaknesses. Refuse to rationalize, justify, or defend your areas of weakness. Instead, identify them clearly. Set a goal and make a plan to become very good in each of those areas. Just think. You may be just one critical skill away from peak performance at your job. The big question here is one of the most important questions you will ever ask yourself and will answer which skill, if developed and done excellently, would have the greatest positive impact. my career you should use this question to guide your career for the rest of your life look to yourself for the answer you probably know what it is ask your boss this question ask your coworkers ask your friends and family whatever the answer is Work to improve your performance in this area, the good news is that all business skills can be learned if someone else is excellent in that particular key result area, this is proof that you too can become excellent if you decide opt for one of the fastest and The best way to stop

procrastinating

and get more done faster is to become absolutely excellent in your key result areas.

This can be as important as anything else you do in your life for your career. Eat that frog. Identify the key result areas of your career. work, what are they? Write down the key results you need to achieve to do your job excellently. Rate yourself from one to ten on each and then determine the key skill that, if done excellently, would help you. you are the best at your job two take this list to your boss and discuss it with him or her invite honest feedback and evaluations you can only improve when you are open to constructive input from other people discuss your findings with your staff and fellow workers talk about it with your spouse get in the habit of doing this analysis regularly for the rest of your career never stop improving this decision alone can change your life chader8 apply the law of three do what you can with what you have where is theodore roosevelt The three main tasks you perform contain the majority of the value you bring to your business or organization.

Your ability to accurately identify these three key tasks and then focus on them most of the time is essential for you to perform at your best. Let me tell you. You, true story, three months after her first full-day training session with me in San Diego, Cynthia told the group a story when I came here 90 days ago, you claimed you would show me how to double my income and my free time. in 12 months. This sounded completely unrealistic but I was willing to try it the first day you asked me to write a list of everything I did over the course of a week or a month.

I came up with 17 tasks that I was responsible for. My problem was that I was completely overwhelmed by work. I was working 10 to 12 hours a day six days a week and not spending enough time with my husband and two young children, but I didn't see any outlet for what I had been working for. Eight years for a fast-growing entrepreneurial company in the high-tech area, but there always seemed to be an overwhelming amount of work to do and never enough time. One thing all day continued your story once I made this list that you told. She asked me to ask her this question: If you could do just one thing from this list all day, which task would bring the most value to your company.

Once I identified that task, which was pretty easy, I circled that number and then asked if you could only do one more thing on your list of key tasks, which would be the second most valuable activity for your company. Once I identified the second most important task, you asked me the same question regarding the third most important task. Then you said something that surprised me when you said that ninety percent of the value you bring to your company is contained in those three tasks, whatever they are, everything else you do is a supporting task or a complementary task that could probably be delegated, reduced, outsourced or eliminated take immediate action cynthia continued her story as I looked at the three tasks I realized these were the three things I did that brought the most value to my company this was on a Friday Monday morning at 10 o'clock At that point I met with my boss and explained what I had discovered.

I told him that he needed his help to delegate and outsource all of my work except those three key tasks. I felt that if I could work on those three tasks exclusively throughout the day, I could get more done. more than double my contribution to the company, then I told her that if she doubled my contribution I would like to be paid double, she said my boss was completely silent, she looked at my list of key tasks, she looked at me again and looked at the list. again and then he said you're right, these are the three most important things you do at this company and the three things you do best.

I'll help you delegate and outsource all these other menial tasks so you can fully work. time on these three key tasks and if you double your contribution I will pay you double transform your life Cynthia concluded her story by saying that he did it, then I did it, then I did it, he helped me delegate and assign my menial tasks so I could focus on As a result of my three main jobs, I doubled my production in the next 30 days and he doubled my income. I had been working very hard for over eight years and doubled my income in just one month by focusing all my time and energy on my three key tasks and not only that, but instead of working 10 and 12 hour days, I work eight to five in the afternoon and spending time in the evenings and weekends with my husband and children, focusing on my key tasks has been transformed. my life perhaps the most important word in the world of work is contribution your rewards, both financial and emotional, will always be in direct proportion to your results to the value of your contribution if you want to increase your rewards you must concentrate on increasing the value of what you do you must dedicate yourself to bring more results to your company and three key tasks always contribute the most.

The quick list method. Here is an exercise we use with our coaching clients very early in the process. We give them a piece of paper and then tell them in 30 seconds to write down their three most important goals in life right now. We've found that when people have just 30 seconds to write down their three most important goals, their answers are as accurate as if they had 30 minutes or three hours in their subconscious. Minds seem to go into hyperdrive and their top three goals pop out of their heads and onto the paper, often to the surprise of the people doing the exercise.

In 80 or more cases, people have three goals in common, first a financial goal and second a professional goal. a family or personal relationship goal and thirdly a health or fitness goal and that's how it should be, these are the three most important areas of life, if you give yourself a rating on a scale of one to ten on each one of these three areas, you can immediately identify where you are doing well in life and where you need to improve. Try it yourself and see. Give this exercise to your spouse or children. The answers can be quite revealing.

Later in our training program we expand on this exercise by asking the following questions. what are your three most important business or career goals right now two what are your three most important family or relationship goals right now three what are your three most important financial goals right now four what are your three most important health goals right now five what are your three most important personal and professional development goals right now six what are your three most important social and community goals right now seven what are your three biggest problems or concerns in life right now when you You force yourself to ask and answer each of these questions in 30 seconds or less, you will be surprised by the answers - whatever your answers are, they will usually be an accurate snapshot of your true situation in life right now.

These answers will tell you what's really important to you as you set goals and priorities to get organized. concentrating exclusively on one task at a time andBy disciplining yourself to complete your most important tasks, you should never forget that your ultimate goal is to live a long, happy, and healthy life. Time management is a means to an end. The main reason to develop time. management skills is so that you can complete everything that is really important in your work and free up more and more time to do the things in your personal life that give you the most happiness and full satisfaction. 85 of your happiness in life will come from being happy.

Relationships with other people, especially those closest to you, as well as your family members. The critical determinant of the quality of your relationships is the amount of face-to-face time you spend with the people you love and who love you in return. The purpose. The way to manage eat-that-frog time and get more done in less time is to allow yourself to spend more face-to-face time with the people you care about doing the things that bring you the most joy in life. The rule is the quality of time at work that counts in the amount of time at home that matters work all the time you work to keep your life in balance you must resolve to work all the time you work when you go to work put your head down and work all the time Start a little earlier, stay a little later and work a little harder, don't waste every minute you spend in idle chitchat with your co-workers as time taken away from work that you need to spend if you want to do it well. in his work.

The worst time you lose at work often has to be taken away from your family. You have to stay late or take your work home and work in the evenings. By not working effectively and efficiently during your work day, you create unnecessary stress and deprive your family members of being the best person you can be. Balance is not optional. One of the most famous sayings of the ancient Greeks is moderation in all things. you need balance between your work and your personal life you need to set priorities at work and focus on your most valuable tasks at the same time you should never lose sight of the fact that the reason to work efficiently is so that you can enjoy a higher quality of life at home with your family.

Sometimes people come up to me and ask how I can achieve this. balance between my work and my family life. I ask them in return how often a tightrope walker balances when he is on the tightrope after a few seconds of thinking. They almost always say all the time. I say it's the same situation with work-life balance. home life you have to do it all the time you never reach a point where you have achieved it perfectly you have to work at it your goal should be to perform at your best at work to achieve the most and enjoy the highest levels of rewards possible for you in your career simultaneously, you must always remember to smell the flowers along the way, never lose sight of the real reasons why you work so hard and why you are so determined to achieve the most over time.

What you invest in The more time you spend face to face with the people you love, the happier you will be Eat that frog Determine the three most important tasks you do at work Ask yourself if I could do only one thing all day Which task would bring the most value to my career. Do this exercise two more times once you've identified your big three. Focus on them with determination throughout the day. Two. Identify your three most important goals in each area of ​​your life. Organize them by priority. Make plans for your achievement and work on your plans every day, you will be amazed at what you will achieve in the months and years to come.

Chapter Nine, prepare thoroughly before you begin, no matter your level of ability, you have more potential than you will ever be able to develop. in your life james t mckay one of the best ways to overcome procrastination and get more things done faster is to have everything you need at hand before you start when you are fully prepared you are like a cocked gun or an archer with an arrow pulled back tense at the bow, you'll be surprised at what you'll accomplish in the months and years to come. You just need a little mental push to get started on your higher-value tasks.

This is like having everything ready to prepare a complete meal. Place the ingredients on the counter in front of you and then start preparing the meal step by step. Start by clearing your desk or workspace so you only have one task in front of you. If necessary, place everything else on the floor or on top. a table behind you gather all the information, reports, detailed documents and work materials you will need to complete the job, have them close at hand so you can reach them without getting up or moving, make sure you have all the writing materials, information logins, access codes, email addresses and everything you need to start working and continue working until the job is finished.

Set up your work area so that it is comfortable, attractive and conducive to working for long periods, especially make sure you have a comfortable chair that supports your back and allows your feet to rest on the floor. Create a comfortable workspace the most productive people will find. Take the time to create a work area where you enjoy spending time. The cleaner and tidier you organize your work area before you start, the easier it will be. Start and continue When everything is organized and in sequence, you will feel much more willing to continue. with work. It's amazing how many books are never written, how many titles are never completed, how many life-changing tasks are never started because people don't take the first step of preparing everything in advance, they launch into their dreams once they have completed their preparations, It is essential that you immediately jump into your goals, get started, do the first thing, whatever it is, my personal rule is to do it right and then correct it then execute it climb the flagpole and see if anyone salutes don't expect perfection the first time or even the first few times be prepared to fail again and again before you get it right wayne gretzky the great hockey player once said you miss 100 of the shots you make Don't take it once you have completed your preparations.

Have the courage to take the first action and everything else will follow from that. The way you develop the courage you need is to act as if you already have the courage and behave accordingly. Take the first step when you sit with everything in front of you ready to start assuming high-performance body language sit up straight sit forward and away from the back of the chair behave as if you were an efficient, effective, high-performance personality, then take the first article and tell yourself let's get to work and dive in and once you've started continue until the work is done eat that frog, take a good look at your desk or office both at home and at work ask yourself what kind of A person works in an environment like this.

The cleaner and tidier your work environment is, the more positive, productive and confident you will feel. 2. Resolve today to completely clean your desk and office so you feel effective, efficient, and ready to get going every time you sit down. get to work chapter 10 take it one barrel of oil at a time people with comparatively moderate powers will achieve a lot if they apply themselves totally and tirelessly to one thing at a time samuel smiles there is an old saying that by the meter it is difficult but by the inch centimeter inches anything is very easy one of the best ways to overcome procrastination is to stop thinking about the enormous task in front of you and focus on a single action that you can perform one of the best ways to eat a big frog is for you to take it one bite at a time lao soo wrote a journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step this is a great strategy to overcome procrastination and get more done faster crossing a large desert many years ago driving an old land rover i crossed the heart of the sahara desert the tana are roofed deep in present-day algeria at that time the desert had been abandoned by the french for years and the original gas stations were empty and closed the desert was 500 miles wide in a single stretch without water eaten a blade of grass or even a fly it was completely flat like a wide parking lot of yellow sand that stretched to the horizon in all directions more than 1,300 people had died crossing that strip of the Sahara in previous years often sands Floating boats had swept the trail through the desert and the travelers had been lost in the night, never to be found alive again.

To counteract the lack of accidents on the ground, the French had marked the runway with black 55-gallon oil drums every five kilometers, which was exactly the distance to the horizon formed by the curvature of the earth, so during the day we could always see two barrels of oil, the one we had just passed and the one three miles in front of it and that was exactly what we needed to stay on course the entire time. What we had to do was head towards the next barrel of oil and as a result we were able to cross the largest desert in the world by simply carrying it one barrel of oil at a time, taking it one step at a time in the same way that you can do it. the greatest task in your life if you discipline yourself to take it one step at a time your job is to go as far as you can see then you will be able to see far enough to go further and achieve a great task you must step forward with faith and with full confidence that your next step will soon become clear to you.

Remember this wonderful advice. A jump in the network will appear. A great life or career is built by doing one task at a time quickly and well, and then moving on to another. the next task financial independence is achieved by saving a little money each month year after year health and fitness is achieved simply by eating a little less and exercising a little more day after day and month after month you can overcome procrastination and achieve extraordinary things by Take just the first step, start toward your goal and then take one step, one barrel of oil at a time, eat that frog, one, select any goal, task or project in your life that you have been putting off. things and make a list of all the steps you have taken. you will need to take to eventually complete task two and then take just one step immediately.

Sometimes all you need to do to get started is sit down and complete one list item and then do one more, and so on. You will be surprised at what you eventually achieve chapter 11 improve your key skills the only sure means of success is to provide more and better service than is expected of you no matter what your task agmundino improving your skills is one of the principles of productivity most important personnel of all learn What you need to learn to be able to do your job excellently. The better you eat a particular type of frog, the more likely you are to jump in and make it.

One of the main reasons for

procrastinating

is the feeling of inadequacy. a lack of confidence or an inability in a key area of ​​a task, feeling weak or deficient in a single area is enough to deter you from starting the job. Continually improve your skills in your key result areas. Remember how good you are today in your knowledge. and skills are becoming obsolete at a rapid rate, as basketball coach pat riley said, every time you stop striving to improve, you will surely get worse, never stop learning, one of the most useful time management techniques of all is that you can improve in your key tasks, personal and professional improvement is one of the best time savers that exist, the better you are at a key task, the more motivated you are to throw yourself into it, the better you will be, the more energy and enthusiasm you will have when you know what you can do.

Although a job makes it easier for you to overcome procrastination and get the job done faster and better than in any other circumstance, one additional piece of information or skill can make a huge difference in your ability to do the job well. Identify the most important things. you do and then make a plan to continually improve your skills in those areas rule continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field refuse to let a weakness or lack of skill in any area hold you back everything can be learned and what others I have learned that you can learn too when I started writing my first book, I became discouraged because I could only use the search and peck method to write.

I soon realized that I had to learn to type if I ever wanted to write and rewrite. a 300-page book, so I bought a typing program for my computer and practiced for 20 to 30 minutes every day for three months. At the end of that time, I was typing at 40 to 50 words per minute with this added skill I have been able to write over 75 books that have been published around the world. The best news is that you can learn any skill you need to be more productive and effective. You can become a typist if necessary. You can master acomputer. become an excellent negotiator or a super salesperson you can learn to speak in public you can learn to write effectively and well, these are all skills that you can acquire as soon as you decide and make them a priority three steps to master it first read on your field for at least an hour every day, get up a little earlier in the morning and read for 30 to 60 minutes a book or magazine that contains information that can help you be more effective and productive in what you do.

Second, take all the courses and seminars available. about the key skills that can help you attend conventions and business meetings in your profession or occupation attend the sessions and workshops sit in front and take notes purchase audio recordings of the programs dedicate yourself to becoming one of the most knowledgeable and competent in their field, thirdly, listen to audio programs in your car, the average car owner sits behind the wheel between 500 and 1000 hours a year while driving from one place to another. Turn driving time into learning time, you can become one of the smartest, most capable, and highest-paid people around. in your field by simply listening to educational audio programs while driving from one place to another, the more you learn and know, the more confident and motivated you feel, the better you will become, the more capable you will be to do even more in your field, the more you learn the more You can learn, just as you can develop your physical muscles through physical exercise, you can develop your mental muscles with mental exercises and there is no limit to how far or how fast you can go except the limits you put on your own. imagination. eat that frog one identify the key skills that can help you most achieve better and faster results determine the core competencies you will need to have in the future to lead your field, whatever they may be, set a goal, make a plan and start developing and Increase your ability in those areas Decide to be the best at what you do 2.

Develop a personal plan to prepare yourself to perform your most important tasks excellently Focus on those areas in which you have special talents and that you enjoy the most is the key to unlocking your personal potential chapter 12 identify your key limitations focus all your thoughts on the task at hand the sun's rays do not burn until they are focused alexander graham bell between where you are today and any goal or objective you desire To achieve it, there is one important limitation that must be overcome before that ultimate goal can be achieved. Your job is to identify it clearly.

What is holding you back. What determines the speed at which you achieve your goals. What determines how fast you move from where you are. where you want to go, what stops you or you from eating the frogs, what can really make a difference, why haven't you reached your goal yet? These are some of the most important questions you will ask and answer on your path to achieving high levels of productivity and personal effectiveness. Whatever you have to do, there is always a limiting factor that determines how quickly and well you do it. Your job is to study the task and identify the limiting factor or restriction within it.

Then you have to focus on everything. of your energies on relieving that single choke point Identify the limiting factor in virtually every task, big or small, a single factor sets the speed at which you achieve the goal or complete the job What is it? You focus your mental energies on that key area that may be the most productive use of your time and talents. This limitation may be a person whose help or decision needs a resource that requires a weakness in some part of the organization or something else but the limiting factor. It is always there and it is always your job to find it, for example the purpose of a business is to create and retain customers, by doing so in sufficient quantities the business makes a profit and continues to grow and prosper.

Every company has a limiting factor or choke point that determines how quickly and well the company achieves this purpose. It can be marketing, the level of sales or the sales force itself, it can be operating costs or production methods, It may be the level of cash flow or costs, the success of the company may be determined by the competition, customers or the current market, one of these factors, more than anything else, determines how quickly the company company achieves its growth and profitability objectives. What can typically be accomplished by accurately identifying the limiting factor in any process and focusing on that factor? more progress in a shorter period than any other activity the 80 or 20 rule applies to limitations the 80 or 20 rule also applies to limitations in your life and in your work this means that 80 of the limitations are the factors that are holding you back from achieving your goals are internal are within you within your own personal qualities skills habits disciplines or competencies are contained within your own company or organization only twenty percent of the limiting factors are external to you or your organization organization only twenty percent are outside, in the form of competition, markets, governments or other organizations, your key limitation may be something small and not particularly obvious, sometimes you have to list each step of a process and examine each activity to determine exactly what is holding you back sometimes.

A single negative perception or objection from customers can slow down the entire sales process. Sometimes the absence of a single feature can slow the sales growth of a product or service line. Look at your company. Take an honest look at your boss. Your partner. -workers and members of your staff to see if there is a key weakness that is holding you or the company back and acting as a brake on achieving your key objectives. Look at yourself. Successful people always begin the analysis of limitations by asking themselves what. Is it in me that is holding me back?

They accept full responsibility for their lives and look within themselves for both the cause and cure of their problems in their own lives. You must have the honesty to look deep inside yourself for the limiting factor or limiting ability. that sets the speed at which you achieve your personal goals keep asking what sets the speed at which I get the results I want to strive for precision the definition of the constraint determines the strategy you use to alleviate it the failure to identify the correct constraint or The Identifying the wrong constraint can lead you in the wrong direction.

You may end up solving the wrong problem. A large corporation. A client of mine was experiencing a decline in sales. The corporation's leaders concluded that the main limitation was the quality of the sales force and the quality of the sales force. Therefore, they spent a huge amount of money reorganizing management and retraining sales staff. They later discovered that the main reason sales were down was a mistake made by an accountant who had accidentally priced their products too high relative to their competition in the market. Once the corporation revamped their prices, their sales behind each constraint or choke point, once it is located and successfully relieved, you will find another constraint or limiting factor, whether you are trying to get to work on time in the morning or build a successful career.

There are always limiting factors in the bottlenecks that determine the speed of your progress. Your job is to find them and focus your energies on relieving them as quickly as possible. Starting your day by removing a key bottleneck or restriction fills you with energy and personal power. It drives you to move forward and complete the work. It often alleviates a key restriction or limiting factor. It is the most important frog you can eat at that time. that frog one identifies your most important goal in life today which is which is which goal if you achieved it would have the greatest positive effect on your life which professional achievement would have the greatest positive impact on your work life two determine the only internal or external constraint that Set the speed at which you achieve this goal Ask why I haven't reached it yet What is it in me that is holding me back Whatever your answers Take action immediately Do something Do anything but start Chapter 13 Press yourself the first requirement for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to a problem incessantly without tiring thomas edison the world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be the problem is that no one is coming to the rescue these people are waiting for a bus on a street where buses don't pass if they don't take charge of their lives and put pressure on themselves they can end up waiting forever and that's what most people do, only about two percent of people can work completely unsupervised.

We call these people leaders. This is the type of person you should be and can be if you choose to be to reach your full potential. You must form the habit of pushing yourself and not waiting for someone else to come and do it for you. You must choose your own frogs and then force yourself to eat them in their order of importance. Lead the field. Consider yourself a role model. Raise the bar for yourself, the standards you set for your own work and behavior should be higher than anyone else could set for yourself, make a game of starting a little earlier, working a little harder, and staying a little later, always look for ways to go further.

The mile for doing more than you are paid for your self-esteem has been defined by psychologist Nathaniel Brandon as the reputation you have with yourself that you build or tear down your reputation with yourself with everything you do or stop doing the good news is that You feel better about yourself every time you push yourself to do your best Increase your self-esteem every time you go beyond the point at which the average person would normally quit Create imaginary deadlines One of the best ways to overcome procrastination and do more things Faster is working as if you only had one day to do your most important tasks.

Imagine every day that you just received an emergency message and that you will have to go out of town tomorrow for a month if you had to go out of town for a month. What would you make absolutely sure you had done before you left? Whatever your answer is, get to work on that task right now. Another way to put pressure on yourself is to imagine that you have just been rewarded with an all-expenses-paid vacation to a beautiful resort. but you will have to go on vacation tomorrow morning or they will give it to someone else.

What would you be determined to finish before you leave so that you can take that vacation, whatever it may be?, start that job right away. Successful people continually put pressure on themselves to perform at high levels People who fail have to be coached and pressured by others By putting pressure on yourself You will accomplish more tasks better and faster than ever You will become a high-performing personality and high achievement you will feel fantastic about yourself and little by little, you will develop the habit of completing tasks quickly, which will then serve you every day of your life.

Eat that frog. Set deadlines and subdates for each task and activity. Create your own forcing system. Raise the bar. and don't let go once a deadline has been set, stick to it and even try to beat it. 2. Write down each step of an important job or project before you start. Determine how many minutes and hours you will need. to complete each phase, then race against your own clock, beat your own deadlines, turn it into a game and decide to win chapter 14 get motivated for action is in the compelling enthusiasm of the great adventure in a victory and of the creative action where the man finds his supreme joys antoine de saint-exupéry to give your best you must become your personal entertainer you must develop a routine to train yourself and encourage yourself to play at the highest level most of your emotions, positive or negative, are determined by the form As you talk to yourself minute by minute, it is not what happens to you but the way you interpret the things that happen to you that determines how you feel.

Your version of events largely determines whether these events motivate you or energize you, or to energize and stay motivated you must decide to become a complete optimist you must decide to respond positively to people's words, actions, and reactions and situations around you you must refuse to allow the inevitable difficulties and setbacks of daily life to affect your mood or emotions control your internal dialogue your level of self-esteem how much you like and respect yourself is essential to your motivation levels and perseverance you must talk to yourself positively all the time to increase your self-esteem say I liked itlike yourself over and over again until you start believing it and behaving like a person with a high-performing personality to stay motivated and overcome feelings of doubt or fear, continually tell yourself I can do it, I can do it when people ask you how you are always . tell them I feel great no matter how you really feel right now or what is happening in your life resolve to remain cheerful and optimistic as viktor frankl wrote in his best selling book man's search for meaning the last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any set of circumstances refuse to complain about your problems keep them to yourself as comedian ed forman says you should never share your problems with others because 80 percent of people don't care about them anyway and the another 20 is kind to be glad you have them first develop a positive mental attitude in martin solomon's 22 year study at the university of pennsylvania summarized in his book learned optimism determined that optimism is the most important quality you can develop for your Personal life and Professional success and happiness Optimistic people seem to be more effective in almost all areas of life.

It turns out that optimists have four special behaviors, all of them learned through practice and repetition. First, optimists look for the good in every situation, no matter what goes wrong, they always look for the good. something good or beneficial and it is not surprising that they always seem to find it. Second optimists always look for the valuable lesson in every setback or difficulty. They believe that difficulties do not come to obstruct but to instruct. They believe that every setback or obstacle contains a valuable lesson that they can learn and grow. and they are determined to find it.

Optimistic third parties always look for the solution to each problem instead of blaming or complaining when things go wrong. They are action-oriented. They ask questions like what is the solution? What can we do now? What is the next step? 4. Optimists They continually think and talk about their goals They think about what they want and how to get it They think and talk about the future and where they are going instead of the past and where they come from They always look forward instead of back when they Continuously visualize your goals and ideals and talk to yourself positively.

You feel more focused and full of energy. You feel more confident and creative. You experience a greater sense of control and personal power. The more positive and motivated you feel, the more anxious you will be. to start and the more determined you will be to move forward, eat that frog, control your thoughts, remember, become what you think about most of the time, make sure you think and talk about the things you want instead of the things you don't I don't want 2 .Keep your mind positive by accepting full responsibility for yourself and everything that happens to you.

Refuse to criticize others. Complain or blame others for anything. Resolve to make progress instead of excuses. Keep your thoughts and energy focused on what you want. you can do right now to improve your life and let go of the rest chapter 15 technology is a terrible teacher there is more to life than simply increasing its speed mahonda gandhi technology can be your best friend or your worst enemy technology becomes the enemy when we give in to an obsessive need to continually communicate, this compulsion to stay connected leaves us all psychologically breathless, we don't have time to stop smelling the roses and organize our thoughts, you have a choice, the key is to maintain your relationship with technology under control, bill gross, who raised more than $600 billion in fixed income and bond funds when he was with pimco, is famous for exercising regularly and meditating daily to stay focused without using any technology despite turning off all his devices never miss an important message so you stay calm, lucid and able to perform at your best by regularly disconnecting from the technology that overwhelms you.

A researcher who asked a group of CEOs and entrepreneurs to disconnect from technology found that they had improved memory, deeper relationships, better sleep, and a greater likelihood of making life-transforming decisions when people are overly connected. to communications technology quickly become a destructive addiction. People wake up in the morning and obsessively check all the notifications on their phones before getting out of bed, then rush to their computers to write even more before they even eat breakfast, drink water or According to a study, people brush their teeth You now check your smartphones about 46 times a day, about 85 times a day, according to another study that found people access their phones twice as often as they thought.

A long time ago I was at a business lunch with a room full of high-level executives before the start of the lunch, one of the organizers stood up and said a short grace, all the executives bowed their heads when the grace ended, without However, lunch began. At my table, four or five of the eight people seemed to have been greatly affected by the prayer, they kept their heads bowed with their hands in their laps, even when the food was served, they seemed to be lost in deep thoughts about the profound questions of the day when I realized that they were not praying at all, they were all intensely focused on their smartphones, sending and receiving emails, typing like frantic teenagers playing video games, they were all lost in the world around them, drowning in a deep Sink full of information exchange.

In the past, one of my clients found himself tied and chained to his computer receiving and responding to emails for several hours each day, the more time he spent in front of his computer, the less important tasks he could accomplish. The stress caused by these undone tasks that accumulated like an avalanche began to affect his personality, his health, and his sleeping habits. We taught you about the 80 or 20 rule and how it applied to emails you deleted and unsubscribed from 80 of your emails that had no value. Of the remaining 20, only 4 percent required immediate responses, the other 16 percent could be transferred to an action folder to work on later.

Refuse to be a slave. Break out of his computer. Unsubscribe from all unwanted newsletters. Set up an autoresponder that says: I'm just checking my email. twice a day I will answer as soon as possible if this is an emergency phone this number a Fortune magazine journalist once wrote that when he returned to the office after a two-week vacation in Europe he had more than 700 emails waiting for him. Realizing it would take him a week to go through them all before starting major projects for the first time in his career, he took a deep breath and hit the delete all button, erasing those 700 emails forever, and then got to work on the projects.

They were really important to him and his company. His explanation was simple. I realized that just because someone sends me an email doesn't mean they own a part of my life. Although not many people would delete their entire inbox, you can definitely delete and ignore more emails. What you do now, empower yourself to delete all emails that don't relate to important goals and relationships. Someone will tell you that people often ask me at my seminars, but don't you have to stay connected to technology to stay up to date with the news? tell them if it is really important someone will tell you many people disconnect from the news and surprisingly they stay well informed about the most important topics you should do the same eat that frog one decides today to create zones of silence during your day to day activities of the day turn off your computer and your smartphone for an hour in the morning an hour in the afternoon you will be surprised what happens nothing 2.

Resolve to disconnect from technology for a full day each week at the end of your digital detox your mind will be calm and clear when your mental batteries have time to recharge. recharge you will be much more effective eating frogs chapter 16 technology is a wonderful servant technology is just a tool melinda gates you must discipline yourself to treat technology as a servant not as a master the purpose of technology is to make your life more fluid and easier not to create complexity, confusion and stress, usually to do more things of higher value, you have to stop doing things of lower value, keep asking yourself what is important here, what is most important what you can achieve at work, what is important in your personal life, if you could.

Do just one or two of the activities available to you, what would they be? Use your technology tools to periodically remind yourself of what is most important and protect yourself from what is less important. Technology can be a simple way to gain control of your communications. time and even your emotions take control of your communication clean your digital workspace as you would your physical desktop close all programs that are not necessary for the task at hand block the websites that distract you the most make sure they only The communication channels you need to complete your tasks are open, most tasks require some communication, but having 10 different ways to communicate is overkill once you only see the relevant information on the screen.

Organize your windows for a seamless workflow. Show your smartphone who's boss by turning off all audio and visual notifications. This is an important step. It's okay to check your phone on your own time and regain control of your life, but what about emergency workers responsible for young children? Elderly Parents Our disabled relatives may feel that disconnecting from technology or turning off notifications simply isn't an option. What if your elderly parents make a mistake? in the bathroom or your toddler has an emergency at daycare this is an absolutely valid concern, however the solution is not to be available to everyone at all times, but to create a phone number, email address or other channel of communication that only your loved one's caregiver knows about leaving that channel open and reserving it for emergencies if you wish, you can do this for your work life and also give your boss or key clients a way to communicate with you that no one else can has.

You can also set your email manager to automatically sort. emails from your most important work relationships in a first read folder; In other words, segment your communication channels so that only frogs can jump into your concentration castle. take control of your time. Your calendar is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master, it never automatically clicks accept. a digital invitation ask yourself if the invitation really fits your priorities before you press the button schedule large blocks of time to complete tasks on your calendar as if they were appointments be so aggressive about it that when people look at your calendar they will only see a small portion of free time This will impress them and motivate them to schedule shorter meetings Your digital to-do list, also known as task management software, is a powerful tool to take control of your time It has all the positive aspects of a to-do list. paper tasks plus a Some additional features Digital to-do lists allow you to transfer items to someone else's to-do list with the click of a button.

This can help you delegate more efficiently, but be sure to only accept those tasks that are in line with your priorities. The to-do list can also be scheduled to tirelessly remind you of your most important tasks. Take control of your emotions using technology. Many people do not make technology their servant because they are afraid of learning new skills. This fear can be mastered. Don't let it stop you. Everything can be learned and what others have learned you can also learn. Let your organization know you're interested in learning about technology tools that will make you more efficient.

If you have a friend, family member, or coworker who is a tech whiz, learn everything. You can from that person above all else avoid the phrase I can't technology is no longer optional it is as important as reading, writing and arithmetic and the idea that only certain types of people are good at technology is a myth regardless of your age race or gender you have the power to master technology if you feel frustrated just remember that it happens to everyone, even expert programmers who are paid hundreds of dollars an hour will sometimes feel frustrated by technology when you do technology your servant, can be a source of positive motivating emotions and greater productivity, publishyour most important goal on social media and promise your followers that you will achieve that goal, update them daily on your progress, so that if you skip a day or relax, everyone will know to post on social media about your goal.

Progress is a great way to reward yourself for making progress on long-term projects, when the reward is in the distant future it can be difficult to stay motivated, so getting likes or hearts from your followers on your daily updates can be a way. to achieve a mini reward: you can even search for people in your field on social networks and compete with them to see who can eat the most frogs. For example, many novelists like to share their daily word count on Twitter so they can see who in their social circle is the best. The faster, more productive writer who gives in to procrastination stops being enslaved by social media and makes it work for you.

It's simple, instead of posting something trite, he posts about your life goals and seeks social support to conquer them. Eat that frog. Solve today. to turn off all notifications except your emergency channels create special areas in your digital life for your most important tasks 2. resolve to research and install software or an application that will help you be more efficient and focused chapter 17 focus your attention for life is the study of attention where your attention goes your life follow jeetu krishnamurti focused attention is the key to high performance the lure of distraction the lure of electronic and other interruptions lead to diffuse attention a wandering mind a lack of concentration and ultimately low achievements and failures Current research shows that continually responding and reacting to emails, phone calls, text messages and instant messages has a negative effect on your brain, shortening your attention span and making it difficult, if not impossible, for you to complete the tasks upon which your future and future rest.

Your success depends on developing an addiction. When you check your email first thing in the morning or when you respond to the bell or other sound that indicates an incoming email or message, your brain releases a small shot of dopamine. This shot gives you a pleasant buzz. which stimulates your curiosity and makes you react and respond immediately, you instantly forget about anything else you are doing and direct all your attention to the new message, like the sound of the bells that ring when you win while playing a slot machine, the sound of the mail email or im triggers the what did I win reaction, you immediately stop working to figure out what your prize is when you start your day with some dopamine injections triggered by your email or the ringing doorbell, you find it extremely difficult to pay close attention to your important things.

Tasks for the Rest of the Day The Illusion of Multitasking Some people believe they can multitask by going back and forth between emails and important tasks, but people can focus on only one thing at a time. What they are actually doing is called task switching. Shifting your attention back and forth, like moving a spotlight from one object to another after an internet outage, it takes you about 17 minutes to refocus your full attention on your task and continue working. This is precisely why so many people today are working harder and harder to go from email interruptions to work and back again throughout the day and are achieving less and less.

They also make more mistakes. The proven solutions. The solutions are simple and are being adopted by the most productive people in every industry. First, don't check your email. in the morning and immediately triggers dopamine addiction throughout the day, leave your devices off second if you must check your email for any reason, get in and out quickly and get back to work, turn off the sound on your computer and put your phone in stop vibration mode. stimuli that trigger the flow of dopamine and lead to continuous interruptions finally resolve to check your email only twice a day at 11 a.m. m. and at 3 p.m. m. and then turn it off again each time.

Provide a phone number where someone can contact you in an emergency whenever. you are in a meeting with one or more people follow the same protocol leave electronic devices off never insult the people you are meeting with working on your laptop or answering your phone pay 100 attention to other people this also applies at home double your productivity here is a simple way to double your productivity first plan each day in advance select your most important task and then start with that task first before doing anything else second work non-stop for 90 minutes without detour or distraction and then give a 15 minute break, a third start again and working another 90 minutes flat out, finally after this three hour work period you can reward yourself with a dopamine shot by checking your email when you develop the habit of completing three hours of important work. every morning first thing you will double your productivity and break the habit of checking your email throughout the day you will regain full control of your life eat that frog keep your goals of success and high productivity in mind before doing anything yourself, Is this helping me achieve one of my most important goals or is it just a distraction?

Two refuse to become slaves to the bells and whistles that distract you from completing those tasks that can make a real difference in your life. Leave your devices out of the chapter. 18 cutting and cutting the task the beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread but each time we repeat the act we strengthen the thread and add another strand until it becomes a great cable and unites us irrevocably in thought and action orris and sweat martin One of the main reasons for putting off big, important tasks is that they seem so big and formidable when you first tackle them.

One technique you can use to reduce a large task is the salami slice method to get the job done with this method. Perform the task in detail, writing down each step in order, and then decide to do only one portion of the work for the moment, such as eating a salami roll, one portion at a time, or like eating an elephant, one bite at a time, psychologically. you will do it. You find it easier to do just one small part of a large project than to start the whole job. Often, once you have started and completed a single part of the job, you will feel like doing just one more part and soon you will find yourself working through the entire process. work one part at a time and before you know it, the work will be completed develop a compulsion to close an important point to remember is that you have deep within you an urge to complete or what is often known as a compulsion to close, this means that you actually feel happier and more powerful when you start and complete a task of any kind you satisfy a deep subconscious need to give finality to a work or project this feeling of completion or closure motivates you to start the next task or project and then to persist until final completion, this act of completion triggers the release of endorphins in your brain mentioned above and the bigger the task you start and complete, the better and more euphoric you will feel, the bigger the frog The more you eat, the greater the surge of personal power and energy you will gain. experience: When you start and finish a small part of a task, you feel motivated to start and finish another part, then another, and so on.

Every small step forward gives you energy. You soon develop an internal drive that motivates you to see your tasks through to the end. Another technique you can use is called the Swiss cheese working method. You use this technique to get going by resolving to make a hole in the task like a hole in a block of Swiss cheese, Swiss cheese, a task when you decide to work. for a specific period of time, this can be as little as 5 or 10 minutes, after which you will stop and do something else, just take a bite of the frog and then rest or do something else.

The power of this method is similar to that of the salami slice method. Once you start working, you develop a sense of forward momentum and a feeling of accomplishment. You are filled with energy and enthusiasm. You feel internally motivated and driven to continue until completion. Homework You should try the salami slice method or the Swiss cheese method on any task that seems overwhelming when you first approach it. You'll be surprised at how helpful each technique is for overcoming procrastination. I have several friends who have become best-selling authors simply by resolving to write a page or even a paragraph a day until the book is completed and you can do the same eat that frog one put the salami slice or the salami technique into action.

Swiss cheese right away to get started on a big, complex multitasking job you've been putting off 2. Become Action Oriented A common quality of high-performing people is that when they hear a good idea, they take action immediately. Don't delay, try it today. Chapter 19. Create large periods of time. Nothing can add more power to your life than focusing all your energies on a limited set of goals, of course, most of the really important work you do requires large amounts of uninterrupted time to complete your ability to create and use these blocks of high power. Value, highly productive time is critical to your ability to make a meaningful contribution to your work in your life.

Successful salespeople set aside a specific period of time each day to call potential customers rather than procrastinate or delay a task they don't care about. particularly like it, they decide to phone for a full hour between 10 o'clock and 11 a.m. For example, and discipline to follow through with your resolution Many business executives set aside specific time each day to call customers directly to obtain feedback, return phone calls, or respond to correspondence Some people allocate specific time periods of 30 to 60 minutes each day to do exercise many people read books very well 15 minutes each night before retiring this way, over time they eventually read dozens of the best books ever written.

Schedule blocks of time. The key to the success of this method of working in specific time segments is that you plan your day in advance and schedule a fixed period of time for a particular activity or task schedule work appointments with yourself and then discipline yourself to keep them booked segments of time of 30, 60 and 90 minutes that you use to work and complete important tasks. Many highly productive people schedule specific activities in pre-planned time slots throughout the day, these people build their work lives around completing key tasks one by one. At the same time, as a result, they become increasingly more productive and eventually produce two times, three times, and five times more than what the average person uses at one time.

Planning a time planner broken down by hours and minutes of the day and organized in advance can be one of the most powerful personal productivity tools of all. It allows you to see where you can consolidate and create blocks of time for focused work during these work times. The phone eliminates all distractions and works non-stop One of the best work habits of everyone is to get up early and work at home in the morning for two or three hours. You can do three times more work at home without interruption than before. you could never in a busy office where you are surrounded by people and bombarded by phone calls make every minute count when traveling for business you can create your office in the air by carefully planning your work before leaving when the plane takes off you can work non-stop throughout the entire flight you will be surprised at the amount of work you can accomplish when you work steadily on an airplane without interruptions one of the keys to achieving high levels of performance and productivity is to make every minute count use travel and transition times which often It's called gifts of time to complete small chunks of larger tasks, eat that frog, continually think of different ways you can save time and consolidate large chunks of time, use these times to work on important tasks with the most significant consequences in the long run. term. two make every minute count work steadily and continuously without detours or distractions by planning and preparing your work in advance above all stay focused on the most important results for which you are responsible chapter 20 develop a sense of urgency do not wait the time will never come Be fair, start where you are and work with any tools you may haveat your disposal and better tools will be found as you progress through Napoleon Hill.

Perhaps the most externally identifiable quality of high-performing men and women is action orientation. They are in a hurry. To complete their key tasks, highly productive people take the time to think, plan and prioritize, then launch quickly and firmly towards their goals and objectives, work steadily, fluidly and continuously, as a result, they seem to be able to accomplish enormous amounts of work at the same time. amount of time the average person spends socializing wasting time and working on low-value activities getting into flow When you work on your most important tasks at a high, continuous level of activity, you can actually enter an amazing state of mind called flow that almost everyone has experienced this at some point, the truly successful people are those who enter this state much more frequently than the average person when you are in the flow state, which is the highest human state of performance and productivity, something almost miraculous happens to your mind and emotions you feel euphoric and clear everything you do seems simple and precise you feel happy and full of energy you experience a tremendous sense of calm and greater personal effectiveness in the flow state identified and has spoken throughout the centuries you actually function on a higher plane of clarity, creativity and competence you are more sensitive and aware your knowledge and intuition guide you and direct you to do and say exactly the right things at the right time you see the interconnection of People and circumstances around you often come up with brilliant ideas and insights that will allow you to move forward even more quickly Trigger high performance in yourself One of the ways you can trigger this state of flow is by developing a sense of urgency, this It is an internal drive and the desire to get on with the work quickly and do it quickly is an impatience that motivates you to keep going and to keep going A sense of urgency feels a lot like racing against yourself With this ingrained sense of urgency you develop a tendency Do you take action instead of continually talking about what you're going to do?

Do you focus on specific steps you can take immediately? You focus on the things you can do right now to get the results you want and achieve the goals you want. A fast pace seems to go hand in hand with all great success. Developing this rhythm requires that you start moving and continue moving at a constant pace the faster you move the more driven you feel to do even more even the faster you get into the zone you develop a sense of momentum when you take continuous and regular steps towards your goals more Important Activations of Momentum Success Principle This principle says that although it may take enormous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes much less energy to continue.

The good news is that the faster you move, the more energy you have and the faster you move. The more you do and the more effective you feel The faster you move The more experience you gain The more you learn The faster you move The more competent and capable you become in your job A sense of urgency automatically puts you on the fast track in your career, the more The faster you work and the more you do, the higher your levels of self-esteem, self-respect and personal pride will be, you will feel in complete control of your life and your work, do it now, one of the simplest and, at the same time, most powerful way to start is to repeat the words do it now do it now do it now over and over again if you feel like you are slowing down or distracted by low-value conversations or activities, repeat the words get back to work get back to work over and over again in the Final analysis nothing will help you more in your career than getting a reputation for being the kind of person who does important work quickly and well, this reputation will make you one of the most valuable. and respected people in your field eat that frog, resolve today to develop a sense of urgency in everything you do, select an area where you have a tendency to procrastinate, and resolve to develop the habit of acting quickly in that area.

Area 2. When you see an opportunity or problem act immediately When you are assigned a task or responsibility Take care of it quickly and report back quickly Move quickly in every important area of ​​your life You will be surprised at how much better you feel and how good you are. feel. more you can do chapter 21 just manage each task here lies the secret of true power learn through constant practice how to manage your resources and concentrate them at a given time at a certain point james allen eat that frog every part of planning, prioritizing and organizing everything It boils down to this simple concept: every great achievement of humanity has been preceded by a long period of hard, concentrated work until the job was finished.

Your ability to select the most important task to begin and then focus on it single-mindedly until it is completed. completion is the key to achieving high levels of performance and personal productivity once you start you keep going, single management requires that once you start you keep working on the task without detours or distractions until the work is 100% complete you keep pushing yourself to keep repeating the words. Go back to work again and again every time you feel tempted to stop or do something else. By focusing exclusively on your most important task, you can reduce the time needed to complete it by 50 or more.

It has been estimated that the tendency to start and stop. A pick-up, drop-off, and return task can increase the time needed to complete the task by up to 500. Each time you return to the task, you must familiarize yourself with where you were when you stopped and what you still have to do, you have to overcome the inertia and get going again, you have to develop momentum and get into a rhythm of productive work, but when you prepare thoroughly and then begin to refuse to stop or deviate until the work is done, you develop energy, enthusiasm and motivation, You get better and better and more productive, you work faster and more efficiently, you don't waste time, the truth is that once you've decided on your number one task, anything else you do apart from that is a relative waste of time. , any other activity.

It's just not as valuable or as important as this work based on your own priorities. The more you discipline yourself to work non-stop on a single task, the more you progress up the efficiency curve, getting more and more high-quality work done in less and more time. less time each time you stop working, but you break this cycle and move back along the curve to where each part of the task is more difficult and time-consuming. Self-discipline is the key. Albert Hubbard defined self-discipline as the ability to improve yourself. Do what you have to do, when you have to do it, whether you feel like it or not, ultimately, success in any area requires tons of discipline, self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control, they are the basic pillars of character and high performance.

Starting a high priority task and persisting at that task until 100% completion is the true test of your character, your willpower and your resolve, persistence is actually self-discipline in action, the good news is that the more you discipline yourself to persist in an important task, task, the more you like and respect yourself and the higher your self-esteem and the more you like and respect yourself, the easier it will be for you to discipline yourself to persist even more by focusing clearly on your most valuable task and concentrating with determination . until it is 100% complete, you actually shape and mold your own character, you become a superior person, you feel stronger, more competent, more confident and happier, you feel more powerful and productive, you eventually feel able to establish and achieve any goal, you become the master of yourself.

Destiny places you in an ascending spiral of personal effectiveness in which your future is absolutely guaranteed and the key to all this is that you determine the most valuable and important thing you can do at each moment and then eat that frog. that frog one take action resolve today select the most important task or project you can complete and then jump into it immediately two once you start your most important task discipline yourself to persevere without detours or distractions until it is one hundred percent complete see it as a test to determine if you are the type of person who can make the decision to complete something and then see it through once you start refusing to stop until the job is done conclusion putting it all together the key to happiness satisfaction great success and a wonderful feeling of power and personal effectiveness is that you develop the habit of eating the frog first thing in the morning when you start working.

Fortunately, this is a learnable skill that you can acquire through repetition and when you develop the habit of starting with what is most important. task first and foremost your success is assured here is a summary of 21 great ways to stop procrastinating and get more done faster review these rules and principles regularly until they become firmly embedded in your thinking and actions and your future will be guaranteed in One set The table decides exactly what you want Clarity is essential Write down your goals and objectives before you start 2. Plan ahead every day Think on paper Every minute you spend planning can save you 5 or 10 minutes in execution 3. apply the 80 or 20 rule for everything 20 of your activities will represent 80 of your results always concentrate your efforts on that top 20 percent 4. consider the consequences your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or 5.

Practice creative procrastination, since you cannot do everything, you must learn to deliberately postpone those tasks that are of low value to have enough time to do the few things. That Really Count 6. Use the ABCDE Method Continuously Before you start working on a list of tasks, take a few minutes to organize them by value and priorities so you can be sure to work on your most important activities. seven focus on key result areas. Identify those results that you obtain in an absolutely positive way. you have to do your job well and work on it all day eight apply the law of three identify the three things you do in your job that represent 90 of your contribution and focus on doing them before anything else you have to do later more time for your family and personal life 9. prepare thoroughly before you start have everything you need on hand before you start gather all the documents information tools work materials and numbers that you may need to be able to start and continue 10. take it a barrel of oil At the same time, you can do the biggest, most complicated job by completing it step by step. 11.

Improve your key skills The more knowledge and skill you have in your key tasks, the faster you start them and the sooner you finish them, determine exactly what you are very good at or could be very good at and dedicate your whole heart to doing those specific things very, very well. 12. Identify your key Limitations determine the internal or external bottlenecks or choke points that establish the speed at which you achieve your most important goals and focus on alleviating them. 13. Push yourself. Imagine you have to go out of town for a month and work as if you had. to complete your main task before you leave 14. motivate yourself to act be your own cheerleader look for the good in every situation focus on the solution instead of the problem always be optimistic and constructive 15. technology is a terrible teacher reclaim your time from enslaving addictions 16.

Technology is a wonderful servant. Use your technological tools to confront what is most important and protect yourself from what is less important. 17. Focus your attention, stop interruptions and distractions that interfere with carrying out tasks. Your most important tasks 18. Break the task into chunks Break down large, complex tasks into small chunks and then do just a small part of the task to start 19. Create big chunks of time Organize your days around big blocks of time to You can focus for long periods on your most important tasks 20. Develop a sense of urgency Get into the habit of moving quickly on your key tasks Become known as a person who gets things done quickly and well 21.

Manage each task individually Set priorities clear, start immediately on your most important task and then work non-stop until the job is 100% complete. This is the true key to high performance and maximum personal productivity. Make the decision to practice these principles every day until they become second nature to you. these habitspersonal management as a permanent part of your personality your future success will be unlimited just do it, eat that frog