“The ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, status, and happiness in life” says the author, and considers this “key insight” as the heart and soul of this book. Launch directly into your major tasks, eat that frog first, stop procrastinating, overcome procrastination with the habit of setting priorities, especially starting by putting them in writing. In practice, above all, start your productive day each day by working on your most important task. Drawing from the author’s own experience and the experience of successful people who inspired him, the book presents 21 practical ways to stop procrastinating in 21 sharp-witted chapters. As such, those ways, are “methods” or strategies to be practiced and learned. Chiefly among them, the importance of turning off occasionally technological devices, i.e. distractions, which are good servers but terrible masters. Most importantly, set clear priorities, start immediately on your most important task, and then work without stopping until the job is 100 percent complete.
Eat that frog! : 21 great ways to stop procrastinating and get more done in less time. Brian Tracy. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2007.
