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

Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Great book! Basically prioritize your most important task first and do it until it's done. Prepare your next day and week in advance. For large tasks break them into bite size pieces with deadlines. Find out what you're good at and develop other skills needed. Develop urgency and motivation to do the tasks.

21 ways to stop procrastinating and get more done:

1. set the table - write out goals and objectives
2. plan out your next day and week
3. apply 80/20 rule to everything, focus on the 20
4. prioritize goals
5. ABCDE method - before you work on tasks organize by value and priority and work on your most important activities first
6. focus on key result areas - identify those that you have to do
7. practice law of efficiency
8. prepare thoroughly before you begin
9. upgrade your skills
10. leverage your special talents
11. identify key constraints - alleviate them
12. one task at a time
13. put the pressure on yourself
14. maximize personal powers
15. motivate yourself into action
16. practice creative procrastination
17. do most difficult task first
18. break large and daunting tasks into small bite size pieces
19. create large blocks on time to focus
20. develop urgency
21. most important task first and until that's done don't do anything else


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