Eat That Frog!: Get More Of The Important Things Done Today

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We all have specific times during the day when we are at your best. Identify yours and use them to work on your most important and challenging tasks

Successful people are able to look 10 or 20 years into the future, and make decisions today that are consistent with their desired long-term future, including making short-term sacrifices. When considering whether to do or not do something, ask yourself if it has any consequences for your long-term vision. Rather than set deadlines for everything and feel stressed for missing most of them, focus on the most important task, and give it 20% extra time, so you can do it really well. 3 Questions to Find Focus The 10/90 Rule says that the first 10% of time used to plan your work can save you 90% of the execution time once you start. One minute of planning can save you 10 mins of execution time, and help you improve your “return on energy”. By setting aside 10-12 mins for planning, you can save 2 hours of execution the next day. How to Plan Do now: control your thoughts, accept responsibility for what happens to you, don't criticize or blame others, focus forward.

Eat That Frog is a productivity method developed by Brian Tracy and described in his book Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time. Both the book and the method get their names from a quote usually attributed to Mark Twain (though whether Twain actually said/wrote it has been debated): "Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day." Plan Every Day in Advance. Think on paper. Every minute you spend in planning can save you five or ten minutes in execution The law of cause and effect states that if you copy what successful people do, you will get the results that successful people get. List down all your key goals, responsibilities, projects and activities. Identify the top 10-20% and always work on them first. 4. CONSIDER THE CONSEQUENCES If you’re not in the habit of continually getting a little bit better every single day, I highly suggest you get on that. Start reading books. Listen to audio tapes. Watch YouTube videos. Read articles. And so on.

Never stop learning. Read in your field one hour each day. Take courses and seminars. Listen to audio programs in your car. Set up your work area so that it is comfortable, attractive and conducive to working for long periods At this point, you may be thinking, “ONE TASK? ARE YOU INSANE? I HAVE DOZENS OF THINGS I HAVE TO GET DONE EVERY DAY. I CAN’T POSSIBLY DO JUST ONE THING!” Everyone procrastinates," Tracy writes. "The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on."For you to be able to concentrate on those few things that make the most difference in your business or personal life, you must discipline yourself to treat technology as a servant, not as a master.” Practice zero-based thinking on every part of your life. Ask yourself continually, “If I was not doing this already, knowing what I now know, would I get into it again today?” If no, it’s a prime candidate for elimination or creative procrastination.