Eat that Frog!

By Brian Tracy, which is a popular self-help book focused on time management and productivity. The book's central premise is based on a quote by Mark Twain: "Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day." Essentially, this means that if you tackle your most difficult and important task first thing in the morning, everything else will seem easier in comparison.

The book offers a number of strategies for how to "eat your frog," or tackle your most important task. Some of the key strategies include setting clear goals, planning your day in advance, prioritizing tasks using the 80/20 rule, considering the consequences of not completing a task, and using the ABCDE method to prioritize tasks. The ABCDE method involves categorizing tasks as A, B, C, D, or E based on their level of importance, and then tackling the A tasks first.

The rules

1. Set the table.
2. Plan day in advance.
3. Apply 80/20 rule.
4. Consider the consequences.
5. Practice ABCDE method.
6. Focus on key result areas.
7. Prepare before you begin.
8. There is not time to do everything but time to do most important.
9. Do your homework.
10. Leverage on your talents.
11. Identify your key constraints.
12. Take one barel at a time.
13. Put pressure on yourself.
14. Maximize personal powers.
15. Motivate yourself.
16. Practice creative procrastination.
17. Do the most difficult tasks.
18. Slice and dice the task.
19. Create large chunks of time.
20. Develop the sense of urgency.
21. Single handle every task.

7 part method

1. What you want?
2. Write down you goal.
3. Set a deadline if it is rly important.
4. Create a list of what it needs to be done to do it.
5. Organize the list into the plan by priority.
6. Take actions immediately.
7. Do something every single day. (Read or call)

Notes

1. Goals

   • Have it clear and well defined, review it from time to time.
   • Try to do it in the 7 part method.

2. Try to plan the next day the last day.

   • The better plan the better actions and better time management.

3. 6P

   • Prior Proper Planning before taking action Prevents Poor Performance

4. 10/90 rule: 10% planning will save you 90% time.

5. Apply the 80/20 rule to everything. (Parreto principle)

6. Number of tasks.

   • Do not procrastinate on the trivial tasks, they multiply.

7. Practice creative procrastination.

   • Decide to have one day for procrastination on the easy tasks.
   • Delegate the tasks with zero or minimal impact to someone else.

8. ABCDE method: Start with the list of what to do in the upcoming day.

   • Then place the A-E into the must important tasks by priority. Prioritize the A tasks like A1, A2, A3...
   • B will be the task that is not that important but still important.
   • C is nice to do without consequences.
   • D it can be delegated to someone else.
   • E is not relevant to anyone.

9. Learn to say NO” to the tasks that is not vital to me in this time. Say it early and say it often.

10. To starting something new you have to stop doing something old.

11. Procrastinate on purpose.

Consider the consequences

Accurately compute what you should do or not. The task will determine what the frog is. Long term perspective is the highest factor. Motivation requires motive and that can drive you.

There is not time to do everything but it is always a time to eat the biggest frog.

Do first thing first and the second do never.

Three questions

1. What are the biggest frogs to do biggest impact?
2. What can I do to really make the difference. (The only me)
3. What this frog is for me?

Answer to yourself this

and do it often.

1. Business or career goals?
2. Family and relationship goals?
3. Financial goals?
4. Health goals?
5. Personal development?
6. Social and community goals?
7. Biggest problems and concerns