Eat That Frog

Eat That Frog! Make an analysis of your current energy levels and 
your daily health habits. Resolve today to improve your levels of 
health and energy by asking the following questions: 
1) What am I doing physically that I should do more of? 
2) What am I doing that I should do less of?
3) What am I not doing that I should start doing if I want to perform 
at my best? 
4) What am I doing today that affects my health that I should stop 
doing altogether?
Whatever your answers are to these questions, take action today. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Chapter 15 - Motivate Yourself into Action 
 
“It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and of creative 
action that man finds his supreme joys.” 
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery) 
To perform at your best, you must become your own personal 
cheerleader. You must develop a routine of coaching yourself and 
encouraging yourself to play at the top of your game.
Fully 95% of your emotions, positive or negative, are determined by 
how you talk to yourself on a minute to minute basis. It is not what 
happens to you but the way that you interpret the things that are 
happening to you that determines how you feel. It is your version of 
events that largely determines whether they motivate or demotivate 
you, whether they energize or de-energize you.
To keep yourself motivated, you must resolve to become a complete 
optimist. You must determine to respond positively to the words, 
actions and reactions of the people and situations around you. You 
must refuse to let the unavoidable difficulties and setbacks of daily 
life affect your mood or emotions. 
Your level of self-esteem, how much you like and respect yourself, is 
central to your levels of motivation and persistence. You should talk 
 
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to yourself positively all the time to boost your self-esteem. Say 
things like, "I like myself! I like myself!" over and over until you 
begin to believe it and behave like a person with a high performance 
personality. 
To keep yourself motivated, and to overcome feelings of doubt or 
fear, continually tell yourself, "I can do it! I can do it!" 
When people ask you how you are, always tell them, "I feel terrific!" 
No matter how you really feel at the moment, or what is happening 
in your life, resolve to remain cheerful and upbeat. It's been said that 
you should never share your problems with others because 80% of 
people don't care about your problems anyway, and the other 20% 
are kind of glad that you've got them in the first place. 
In study after study, psychologists have determined that “optimism” 
is the most important quality you can develop for personal and 
professional success and happiness. It seems that optimists have 
three special behaviors, all learned through practice and repetition. 
First, optimists look for the good in every situation. No matter what 
goes wrong, they always look for something good or beneficial. And 
not surprisingly, they always seem to find it.