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

Brian Tracy

Start date: April 1, 2021

Finish date: April 30, 2021

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Feb 08, 2021 Arun M V rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: nonfiction-selfhelp

"Rightsizing" - This Book ultimately aims to present certain researched and proven methods but rightsizing as the core and hidden concept (which is not quite directly implied) to be applied in varied ways for being better at what we tend to be!

Rightsizing the aim, goal, focus, objective, planning method, time, risk, key skillset, motivation, results (even creative procrastination and constraints), and also rightsizing the laws and methods are shared across the pages that can be bent to our need ...more

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Aug 31, 2022 Hikari added it

1- Set the table: Decide exactly what you want. Clar-ity is essential. Write out your goals and objectives before you begin.
2.Plan every day in advance: Think on paper. Every minute you spend in planning can save you fi ve or ten minutes in execution.
3.Apply the 80/20 Rule to everything: Twenty per-cent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results. Always concentrate your efforts on that top 20 percent.
4.Consider the consequences: Your most important tasks and priorities are th 1- Set the table: Decide exactly what you want. Clar-ity is essential. Write out your goals and objectives before you begin.
2.Plan every day in advance: Think on paper. Every minute you spend in planning can save you fi ve or ten minutes in execution.
3.Apply the 80/20 Rule to everything: Twenty per-cent of your activities will account for 80 percent 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 negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all else.
5.Practice creative procrastination: Since you can’t do everything, you must learn to deliberately put off those tasks that are of low value so that you have enough time to do the few things that really count.
6.Use the ABCDE Method continually: Before you begin work on a list of tasks, take a few moments to organize them by value and priority so you can be sure of working on your most important activities.
7.Focus on key result areas: Identify and determine those results that you absolutely, positively have to get to do your job well, and work on them all day long.
8.The Law of Three: Identify the three things you do in your work that account for 90 percent of your contribution, and focus on getting them done be-fore anything else. You will then have more time for your family and personal life.
9.Prepare thoroughly before you begin: Have every-thing you need at hand before you start. Assemble all the papers, information, tools, work materials, and numbers you might require so that you can get started and keep going.
10.Take it one oil barrel at a time: You can accom-plish the biggest and most complicated job if you just complete it one step at a time.
11.Upgrade your key skills: The more knowledgeable and skilled you become at your key tasks, the faster you start them and the sooner you get them done.
12.Leverage your special talents: Determine exactly what it is that you are very good at doing, or could be very good at, and throw your whole heart into doing those specif i c things very, very well.
13.Identify your key constraints: Determine the bot-tlenecks or choke points, internal or external, that set the speed at which you achieve your most im-portant goals, and focus on alleviating them.
14.Put the pressure on yourself: Imagine that you have to leave town for a month, and work as if you had to get all your major tasks completed before you left.
15.Maximize your personal power: Identify your periods of highest mental and physical energy each day, and structure your most important and de-manding tasks around these times. Get lots of rest so you can perform at your best.
16.Motivate yourself into action: Be your own cheer-leader. Look for the good in every situation. Focuson the solution rather than the problem. Always be optimistic and constructive.
17.Get out of the technological time sinks: Use tech-nology to improve the quality of your communica-tions, but do not allow yourself to become a slave to it. Learn to occasionally turn things off and leave them off.
18.Slice and dice the task: Break large, complex tasks down into bite-sized pieces, and then do just one small part of the task to get started.
19.Create large chunks of time: Organize your days around large blocks of time where you can concen-trate for extended periods on your most important tasks.
20.Develop a sense of urgency: Make a habit of mov-ing fast on your key tasks. Become known as a per-son who does things quickly and well.
21.Single handle every task: Set clear priorities, start immediately on your most important task, and then work without stopping until the job is 100 percent complete. This is the real key to high performance and maximum personal productivity. ...more

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Feb 04, 2018 Presto rated it really liked it

Shelves: self-help

Quite a remarkable book ,unlike other business books with length unnecessary fillers Brian Tracy keeps it short and sweet based on years of research in productivity and management, though it still contains some fillers.

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Sep 26, 2021 Srinivasan Nanduri rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Another great actionable read to improve your productivity.

My notes:

1. Have goals in all the areas. Clarity in goals is important
2. Have sub goals as needed
3. Plan your day in advance
4. Make monthly and weekly ToDo lists
5. Keep a growing ToDo list
6. Order the items in the lists in the order of priority
7. Apply 80/20 rule to the list(s). What are those 20% of tasks that yield 80% results
8. Resist the temptation to finish the smaller tasks first
9. Long term thinking improves short term decision m ...more

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Aug 03, 2021 Rajesh BATTULA rated it liked it

After a long time giving three stars to a book. Self help books are usually tricky. Most of it you would have hear from someone or in some other book.
Perhaps it will be helpful to some one who hasn't read any other masterpieces like Atomic habits by James Clear or haven't any of the productive channels on YouTube.
To me it was less helpful.
What I learnt from this book
1. Have written goals- gives you clarity and makes the goal tangible. In the mind it is mostly convoluted, confusing.
2. Have deadli ...more

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