Have you ever heard the expression “Eat That Frog?” I’ve never done until I read the book Eat That Frog, 21 tips to stop procrastinating and get more in less time by Brian Tracy.
According to Brian, you are eating your frog is huge at addressing the most important tasks, and they do. The concept is similar to how you eat an elephant … one bite at a time.Brian is the main point, what do you eat your frog first, the ugliest, the ugliest next and so on, until all the frogs are finished. If you “eat your frog,” you have the power to feel more happy, excited, and are more productive, ie, more.
Brian from the principles in his book are principles he took 30 years of study in time management and integrated into his own life. Brain said that time management is life management so that these principles to all aspects of your life, especially your company if you are just starting out on her and part-time work. The idea is to control, take what you are doing and choose the most important tasks during the unimportant. There is a certain key to success.
Here is a summary of each principle Brian is revealed in his book.
Principle 1: the table
This principle is to determine what you want to achieve. This is the clarity of your goals to get. A major reason why people procrastinate to vagueness and confusion about what to do. Brian had his first rule for success: Think on paper. You know, that people who have clear goals written 5 to 10 times more people who do not?
Brian has a seven-step formula for setting and achieving goals:
First Decide whether you want to do (one of the worst time wasters is something good that does not need to at all).
Second Write your goal down. Write your goal down crystallizes and put energy behind it, because it becomes a reality.
Third Set a deadline on your goal. This gives you a sense of urgency, with a beginning and an end.
4th Make a list of everything you think you have to do to achieve the goal. A visual image to give you a way forward and increases the chances of success.
5th Organize the list into a hierarchy and order. You can create a map of your plan as a chart to guide you to visualize the steps.
6th Take action immediately. ”Execution is everything.”
7th Resolve to do something every day that brings you closer to your goal. Plan your activities and never miss a day.
Having clear goals in writing influences how you think and motivates and drives you to act.Written goals stimulate the energy of creativity, freedom, help you overcome procrastination, and inspire you to give. Think about your goals and look at every day and take action.
Principle 2: Plan every day in advance
This is done primarily to make a list of things. How do you eat an elephant, you eat a frog, a mouthful at a time. They break the task into several steps. ”Think and plan to unlock your mind, relax, be creative, and increase your physical and mental energies.”
The better you plan, the easier to overcome procrastination, to get started and continue.Brian says that every minute you spend planning will be as much as 10 minutes to save in the execution. So, if you spend 10 to 12 minutes planning, you will save at least 2 hours (100-120 minutes) in wasted time and effort – very impressive.
Brian led the formula P Six of this principle: the right prior planning prevents poor performance. His advice is as follows: All you need is paper and pen. Always work from a list – if something new happens to include in the list. Keep a master list of everything.Make a list for various purposes. Keep a monthly list that you at the end of each month for the next month. Keep a weekly list, you At the end of the week for the next week. Keep a daily list, do you like at the end of the day for the next day.
Listen to each other feed. Check the items you can add. Check the items, a video recording of the service free and motivates you to continue.
Follow the 10/90 rule of self-efficacy, which says that if you plan the first 10% of your time and organize your work before you pass, you save 90% of the time to do the job, when you start.
Principle 3: Apply the 80/20 Rule
This principle states that 20% of the activities will account for 80% of the results, even when doing all your activities to the same amount of time instead. Activities that you are the best return on your investment frogs. What your time is the difference between animate and something to be achieved. You want to eliminate or spend less time on your tasks with limited value. Your most valuable tasks are the most difficult and complex, but to give you the time for you, so ask yourself if the task is a task of 20%. The rule here is Brian “Resist the temptation to lift a little in advance.”
When you start working your hardest task, you are motivated to complete it. ”Part of your mind like hard on important tasks that can really make a difference. Your job is to feed that part of your mind all the time.”
Think of arrival and departure of an important task and motivated to help you overcome procrastination. An important fact to remember is that “The time taken to complete is an important and necessary work in order to do a job, not of importance.”
Principle 4: the consequences
“The mark of a thinker, as his ability to accurately predict the consequences of anything done or not done.” You are thinking about the consequences you an idea of ??whether an activity is important and is a way to determine the importance of a task. Every task is important to long-term potential.
Dr. Edward Banfield of Harvard University concluded that (a rare trait in our instant gratification world) “is the prospect of a long time the single most accurate predictor and economic prosperity in America.” Setting your time to have an influence on your behavior and choices. Reflection on the long-term effects will help you make better decisions, and one of the rules of Brian. “Long-term vision to improve the decision-making in the short term”
Want to have a future orientation (5, 10, 20 years) allows you to analyze your behavior and make decisions in line with the future. Ask yourself: “What are the possible consequences of doing or not doing the job?”
Brian followed the rule is “influenced and future intentions often determines present actions.” The clearer you are about your future intentions, the best clarity about what to do in the present. With a clear understanding of your future intentions will help in the evaluation of a task, delay gratification, and the sacrifices necessary in the future.prepared to do what the others do not, if you can do what others want more later …Rewards in the long term.
Dennis Waitley, a motivational speaker said: “make mistakes, which relieve the tensions, while to reach winner, what is the aim to do.” Key tasks is a priority and to start now. The time is running anyway, decide how to spend it and end up where you want. Think about the consequences of your choices, decisions and behaviors is the best way to determine your priorities.
Principle 5: ABCDE Method continually practice
ABCDE Method is a technique for determining priorities, help you to efficiently and effectively. The premise of the technique is that the more you invest in planning and setting priorities, important things that you do and do it faster when you start.
You start by listing everything you have to do for the day and to classify all A, B, C, D or E.
Should be “A” is something that is very important that you have to do, or it will be serious consequences (in terms of your frog.) A “B” is something that you do has an impact on light (Brian calls The tadpoles you). A “C” is something that would do nicely, but there are no consequences. ”D” is something that can delegate to someone, allowing more time for you to work A. “E” is something that you eliminate, because it does not make any difference.
Discipline yourself to work and stay on the A until it is completed. If you have more than one job in each category, the largest label A1, A2 of the next, etc. and the same for other categories. Never an A or a B, C before
Principle 6: Focus on Key Result Areas
This principle is what you focus on work. Each job can be reached in “key areas”, the desired results and for which you are responsible are divided. For example, the most important areas for managing the planning, organizing, staffing, delegating, monitoring, measurement and reporting.
Identify your key result areas and a list of your tasks. Then you are just on a scale of 1-10 in each outcome area. Where are you strong? Where are you weak? You get results or in the scene? The reign of Brian for this area is “Your weakest key result area sets the height at which you can use the other skills and abilities.” In essence, your region, the lower limits of the overall performance is.
This leads to another reason why people procrastinate, they avoid things that they performed poorly in the past. Procrastination usually does not occur in an area that you are too good to ask yourself, “What one skill, if I have developed and would be in an excellent manner the greatest positive impact in my career have” (or life or business)?Ask people around you. Then you set a goal to improve in this area of ??weakness.
Principle 7: Respect for the law of forced efficiency
“It’s never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.” The rule that applies here is, Brian, “There is never enough time to be doing what you do.” (This is a bitter pill to swallow and something that we do unconsciously, probably, but not accept.) Brian An effect in his book, is that the average person works at 110-130% capacity, which means that you never get caught. This means that you have to stay on top of your most important tasks.
People create more stress for themselves, if they hesitate, and placed themselves under the pressure of a deadline. If you are facing a deadline, you tend to make more mistakes.The questions that must be made on a regular basis:
First What are my highest value activities?
Second What can I and only I do, if done correctly, will make a real difference?
Third What is the most valuable use of my time right now?
The answers to these questions will identify your biggest frog yet. ”The things important things first and the second does not.”
Principle 8: Prepare before you start
This principle means to prepare and have everything you need ready before you start your mission. They have everything easily accessible in front of you. Remove anything that will not help. Create a workspace that you enjoy in.
Principle 9: do your homework
“Find out what you need to learn so that you can do your job well.”
Other reasons for procrastination are feelings of inferiority, lack of confidence and lack of expertise in an important area of ??work. To overcome these problems, on your development work. Professional development is one of the best time savers there is. The rule here is Brian “Lifelong learning is the minimum requirement for success in all areas.”Keep improving your skills.
Principle 10: Use your special talents
Identify your unique skills and commit themselves to good in these areas, then apply your skills and abilities (you can never have them removed). Ask yourself: “What I’m really good?” ”What I love most about my work”? ”What was most responsible for my success in the past?” ”If I could do any job, what would job be?” Focus on your best energies and abilities.
Principle 11: Identify your key constraints
The limiting factors influence how fast and how you get your job done. They are the critical path or throttle body to achieve your goal. Identify your limiting factors by asking yourself what’s holding you back, then concentrate on reducing these factors as much as possible.Get rid of the limiting factors are generally brings more progress in less time than anything else.
The 80/20 rule applies here-80% of the internal stresses are only 20% are external. These limitations can be as simple as a thought or belief. Take responsibility and get rid of stress.
Principle 12: Take a barrel of oil at a time
An attack to tell us something “by the yard is hard, but inch by inch is a cinch.” Take a “one barrel of oil at a time” is the same concept. Brian talks about a trip to Algeria through the Sahara desert. Due to the vastness of the desert and the lack of benchmarks, the French had placed empty oil barrels on the road as markers. The drums were placed 5 km apart, so you can always see the following canon. Thus, the importance of this principle is to see as much as you can go, and when you get there, you can see below. Step in faith, trust, and the next step is clear.
Principle 13: pressure on yourself
The intent behind this principle is to take responsibility for your life before you wait for a rescue that never comes to be found. Be a pioneer, someone who can work without supervision, according to Brian is only about 2% of the population. Higher standards for themselves and others as you would go the extra mile.
That’s all the self-esteem, your reputation is for himself, as the psychologist Nathaniel Brandon defined. Everything you do affects your self-esteem. Press, and you feel better.
Principle 14: Maximize your personal skills
Physical energy, mental and emotional your personal performance and productivity. So the guard and maintain your energy level. Rest when you need it. If you are rested, you will be doing even more.
A general rule is that the productivity tends to decrease after about 8-9 hours. Identify the time you use your best side and this time to work on your frogs. Take some time to rest, relax, eat well and exercise.
Principle 15: motivate you to action
This principle is to control your thoughts and your own cheerleader. Coach and encourage you. How do you talk to yourself determines your emotional response.
How do you interpret things that happen to you determines how you feel. Can feel like you motivate or demotivate you. Are you an optimist and do not let the error and negativity affect your mood.
“Study after study have found psychologists, that” optimism “is the most important quality you can develop for personal and professional success and happiness.”
Brian mentions three behaviors an optimist.
First Enter for good in every situation.
Second Look for the lesson in every setback or difficulty.
Third In the search for the solution to every problem.
If you visualize your goals and positive about you, you feel focused, energized, confident, creative and have a greater sense of control and personal power.
Principle 16: Practice Creative Procrastination
It is a principle of personal power to put out smaller, less ugly frogs. Finally, you can not do (bonus: you can choose which one) everything (? Remember Principle 7, under the Act for the effectiveness of Force), so feel free to low-value activities.
It is a question of priorities, what you do more and earlier, and set to “posterity”, something that it is less and later by the rule that applies here. “You can make your time and your life under control only in the extent that you become less valuable activities. ”
Say “no” to the low value use of your time and your life and say “no” early and often, because you have no free time. Thoughtful and deliberate decision that you do not do this now. Avoid unconscious tendency to procrastinate on the big, hard, valuable, important tasks.
You are responsible for assessing your organization and identify those who take the time with a non-real time. Get rid of them or delegate them (uh, it sounds like 5 ABCDE method principle of the practice). Practice “zero-based thinking.” Ask yourself: “If I do nothing now, knowing what I know now, I’d give it again today?” If you get a positive response, it is an “E.”
Principle 17: Make the most difficult task first
This is the hardest and most difficult principle, because they “eat your frog.” Are Brian describes seven steps to acquire these skills (these measures are a good overview of some of the principles we have already covered):
First At the end of the weekend / day, make a list of everything you need to do the next day. Second Review of the list using the ABCDE method combined with the 80/20 rule.Third Select your task A1, one with the most serious consequences. 4th Gather everything you need to start and the job is ready to start the next morning. 5th Clear your work area so that you only begin to have your A1 task. 6th Self-discipline to get up, get ready, and begin the task without interruption, before anything else. 7th Do this for 21 days (creates a habit).
If you make a habit, the most difficult of all, you double your productivity in less than a month, and you break the habit of procrastination.
Learn to say: “Just for today,” as you develop your new habit. ”Just for today I will plan, prepare, and start my most difficult task before I do anything else.”
Principle 18: Data Flow Task
This principle is the “salami-slice” to get the job done. Place a piece of the task at a time.Psychologically, it’s easier to make a smaller piece than on the quantity of jobs such as food begin an elephant. We tend to want another piece if we have done with. The people have a deep subconscious need finality to get a job, “the longing for perfection.” We feel happier and more efficient if you start and finish a task, as endorphins are released, the bulk of the task, the greater the sense of accomplishment.
This approach is also known as “Swiss cheese” method, drill a hole in the task of spending a certain time in the matter.
Principle 19: Create a large part of the time
This principle will work to schedule time to focus on important tasks. Represents a significant progress on your tasks, you have blocks of quality time with high productivity.The key is to get your day in advance and schedule blocks of time set plan, especially for things that you do not like. Make an appointment with yourself (Principle 2 is very similar to each day to plan ahead).
Avoid distractions and work non-stop. ”Conscious and creatively organize the concentrated time periods you have done your work well and the key schedule.”
Principle 20: Develop a sense of urgency
The basis of this principle is to be action oriented. A sense of urgency is a “deep commitment and desire, along with the job quickly and get it done quickly.” Take time to think, plan and set priorities and to work. Create a mental state of “flow” which is “the highest state of human performance and productivity.”
In the “flow” state, you feel exhilarated, clear, calm, efficient, happy and well. Everything you do seems effortless. They work on a higher level of clarity, creativity and competence.They are more sensitive and aware.
Develop a “sense of urgency” triggers a state of flux. Race against yourself to a “purposeful action.” To develop to develop a fast pace that comes with success.
If you become action-oriented, you solve the “dynamic principle of success.” You end up staying with less energy into kinetic energy, it needs to start. The faster you move, you have more energy, and the more you do. Repeat to yourself, “Do it now!” If you are distracted, you say, “Back to work!”
Principle 21: The unique hand each task
This principle is completely focused on your frog, until he has done, that’s the key to peak performance and personal productivity. Hard, concentrated work before any major success. You can reduce the time a task of 50% or more when you finish with determination to focus, according to Brian.
Starting and stopping, the time to complete a task, an estimated 500%, because you connect with the task to overcome inertia and must start over again. If you stop, stop and reverse the cycle. Develop momentum by entering into a “rhythm of productive labor.”"The more you discipline yourself to work on a single task, non-stop, the more you go to the” Efficiency Curve. ”You get more high quality work in less time.
Success requires self-discipline, self-control and self-control. Elbert Hubbard defined self discipline as “the ability for you to do, what should you do if you need, when you feel like it or not.” Startup, persistent, and the target of a task is a true test of character is will and determination. Persistence self-discipline in action. You get to love and respect you more.You create your character and become a superior person.
Completion
There you have it 21 principles for overcoming procrastination have so you can “eat your frog.” By integrating these principles into your work habits, you will be happy, content, has become a sense of personal power and efficiency, and a great success, happiness, all principles can be learned through repetition of short, here they are ..:
First Set the table.
Second Plan every day in advance.
Third Apply the 80/20 rule for everything.
4th Consider the consequences.
5th Practice the ABCDE Method continually.
6th Focus on key result areas.
7th Obey the law forced efficiency.
8th Prepare carefully before you begin.
9th Do you homework.
10th Use your special talents keys.
11th Identify your key constraints.
12th Take a barrel of oil at a time.
13th Pressure on you.
14th Maximize your personal powers.
15th Motivate yourself into action.
16th Practice creative procrastination.
17th Have the most difficult task at first.
18th Download the task.
19th Create large parts of the time.
20th Develop a sense of urgency.
21st Single handle every task.
I recommend you read the book. Do not be deterred by the numbers not 21. The book is easy to read and Brian goes straight to the point without extra fluff. You have a better understanding of the principles, and the better you understand, the better you will be able to apply your business and life. The advantage is that you get successful “Eat That Frog!”
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