Book Bearings
Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
- 128 pages ยท about 2 hours
- First published 2001
- 60 editions
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1 About this book
Eat That Frog! is a short guide to getting more done, by the business speaker Brian Tracy. The title comes from an old saying: if the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, the worst of the day is already behind you. Tracy's frog is the most important task of the day, the one you are most likely to put off, and his advice is to do it first. Twenty-one brief chapters each give one method, among them planning every day in advance, applying the 80/20 rule, ranking tasks from A to E, preparing thoroughly before you begin, taking a big job one step at a time and keeping technology in its place.
- Applied Psychology
- Self-help
- Time management
- Business
2 What to expect
A very short productivity book with one core rule: find your most important task each day and do it first. Each of its twenty-one chapters gives a single technique for planning, setting priorities and beating procrastination. It is direct and repetitive, a compact collection of familiar time-management advice with nothing technical in it, and it can be read in an evening.
Good for readers who want: beating procrastination, time management, and a very short practical read.
3 About Brian Tracy
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Brian Tracy
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