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I just found out what others were doing in that area and then did it myself until I got the same results they were getting.
The ability to concentrate singlemindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life.
The key to success is action.
your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.
Your “frog” is your biggest, most important task,
If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.
The second rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long.
Your success in life and work will be determined by the kinds of habits that you develop over time.
Practice is the key to mastering any skill.
You need three key qualities to develop the habits of focus and concentration, which are all learnable. They are decision, discipline, and determination.
Visualize Yourself as You Want to Be
Your mental picture of yourself has a powerful effect on your behavior.
Clarity is perhaps the most important concept in personal productivity.
Here is a great rule for success: Think on paper.
One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not be done at all.
the Six-P Formula. It says, “Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance.”
Focus on Activities, Not Accomplishments
You often see people who appear to be busy all day long but seem to accomplish very little. This is almost always because they are busy working on tasks that are of low value while they are procrastinating on the one or two activities that, if they completed them quickly and well, could make a real difference to their companies and to their careers.
Before you begin work, always ask yourself, “Is this task in the top 20 percent of my activities or in the bottom 80 percent?” Rule: Resist the temptation to clear up small things first.
Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
Rule: Long-term thinking improves short-term decision making. Successful people have a clear future orientation.
Successful people are those who are willing to delay gratification and make sacrifices in the short term so that they can enjoy far greater rewards in the long term.
The time is going to pass anyway. The only question is how you use it and where you are going to end up at the end of the weeks and months that pass.
Thinking continually about the potential consequences of your choices, decisions, and behaviors is one of the very best ways to determine your true priorities in your work and personal life.
“There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”
Rule: There will never be enough time to do everything you have to do.
The key result areas of management are planning, organizing, staffing, delegating, supervising, measuring, and reporting.
Start a little earlier, stay a little later, and work a little harder.
Don’t waste time.
Run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes.
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”
Lao-tzu wrote, “A journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.”
“Anytime you stop striving to get better, you’re bound to get worse.”
Rule: Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.
First, read in your field for at least one hour every day.
“What is it in me that is holding me back?”
Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call these people “leaders.” This is the kind of person you are meant to be and that you can be, it you decide to be.
Make it a game with yourself to start a little earlier, work a little harder, and stay a little later.
Do It Now!
In the final analysis, nothing will help you more in your career than for you to get the reputation for being the kind of person who gets important work done quickly and well. This reputation will make you one of the most valuable and respected people in your field.
EAT THAT FROG!
you have enough time to do the few things that really count.
