Eat That Frog



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Tracy Brian - Eat That Frog

 



Introduction 
This is a wonderful time to be alive. There have never been more 
possibilities and opportunities for you to achieve more of your goals 
than exist today. As perhaps never before in human history, you are 
actually drowning in options. In fact, there are so many good things 
that you can do that your ability to decide among them maybe the 
critical determinant of what you accomplish in life. 
If you are like most people today, you are overwhelmed with too 
much to do and too little time. As you struggle to get caught up, new 
tasks and responsibilities just keep rolling in, like the tides. Because 
of this, you will never be able to do everything you have to do. You 
will never be caught up. You will always be behind in some of your 
tasks and responsibilities, and probably in many of them. 
For this reason, and perhaps more than ever before, your ability to 
select your most important task at each moment, and then to get 
started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will 
probably have more of an impact on your success than any other 
quality or skill you can develop.
An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities 
and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles 
 
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around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but who 
gets very little done.
It has been said for many years that if the first thing you do each 
morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the 
satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is 
going to happen to you all day long. 
Your "frog" is your biggest, most important task, the one you are 
most likely to procrastinate on if you don't do something about it. 
It is also the one task that can have the greatest positive impact on 
your life and results at the moment. 
It is also been said that, "If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest 
one first." 
This is another way of saying that, if you have two important tasks 
before you, start with the biggest, hardest and most important task 
first. Discipline yourself to begin immediately and then to persist 
until the task is complete before you go on to something else. 
Think of it as a “test.” Treat it like a personal challenge. Resist the 
temptation to start with the easier task. Continually remind yourself 
that one of the most important decisions you make each day is your 
 
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choice of what you will do immediately and what you will do later, if 
you do it at all. 
There is one final observation. "If you have to eat a live frog, it 
doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long." 
The key to reaching high levels of performance and productivity is 
for you to develop the lifelong habit of tackling your major task first 
thing each morning. You must develop the routine of "Eating your 
frog" before you do anything else, and without taking too much time 
to think about it. 
In study after study of men and women who get paid more and 
promoted faster, the quality of "action orientation," stands out as the 
most observable and consistent behavior they demonstrate in 
everything they do. Successful, effective people are those who launch 
directly into their major tasks and then discipline themselves to work 
steadily and single mindedly until those tasks are complete. 
In our world, and especially in our business world, you are paid and 
promoted for getting specific, measurable results. You are paid for 
making a valuable contribution and especially, for making the 
contribution that is expected of you. 
 
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"Failure to execute" is one of the biggest problems in organizations 
today. Many people confuse activity with accomplishment. They talk 
continually, hold endless meetings and make wonderful plans, but, 
in the final analysis, no one does the job and gets the results required. 
Fully 95% of your success in life and work will be determined by the 
kind of habits that you develop over time. The habit of setting 
priorities, overcoming procrastination and getting on with your most 
important task is a mental and physical skill. As such, this habit is 
learnable through practice and repetition, over and over again, until 
it locks into your subconscious mind and becomes a permanent part 
of your behavior. Once it becomes a habit, it becomes both automatic 
and easy to do. 
You are designed mentally and emotionally in such a way that task 
completion gives you a positive feeling. It makes you happy. It makes 
you feel like a winner. 
Whenever you complete a task, of any size or importance, you feel a 
surge of energy, enthusiasm and self-esteem. The more important the 
completed task, the happier, more confident and powerful you feel 
about yourself and your world. 
Important task completion triggers the release of endorphins in your 
brain. These endorphins give you a natural “high.” The endorphin 
 
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rush that follows successful completion of any task makes you feel 
more creative and confident.
Here is one of the most important of the so-called “secrets of 
success.” It is that you can actually develop a "positive addition" to 
endorphins and to the feeling of enhanced clarity, confidence and 
competence that they trigger. When you develop this “addiction,” 
almost without thinking you begin to organize your life in such a 
way that you are continually starting and completing ever more 
important tasks and projects. You actually become addicted, in a very 
positive sense, to success and contribution. 
One of the keys to your living a wonderful life, having a successful 
career and feeling terrific about yourself is for you to develop the 
habit of starting and finishing important jobs. At that point, this 
behavior takes on a power of its own and you find it easier to 
complete important tasks than not to complete them. 
You remember the story of the man who stops the musician on the 
street of New York and asks how he can get to Carnegie Hall. The 
musician replies, "Practice, man, practice." 
Practice is the key to mastering any skill. Fortunately, your mind is 
like a muscle. It grows stronger and more capable with use. With 
 
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practice, you can learn any behavior or develop any habit that you 
consider either desirable or necessary.
You need three key qualities to develop the habits of focus and 
concentration. They are all learnable. They are decision, discipline 
and determination.
First, make a decision to develop the habit of task completion. 
Second, discipline yourself to practice the principles you are about to 
learn over and over until you master them. And finally, back 
everything you do with determination until the habit is locked in 
and becomes a permanent part of your personality. 
There is a special way that you can accelerate your progress toward 
becoming the highly productive, effective, efficient person that you 
want to be. It consists of your thinking continually about the rewards 
and benefits of being an action oriented, fast moving, focused person. 
See yourself as the kind of person who gets important jobs done 
quickly and well on a consistent basis. 
Your mental picture of yourself has a powerful effect on your 
behavior. Visualize yourself as the person you intend to be in the 
future. Your self-image, the way you see yourself on the inside,
largely determines your performance on the outside. As professional 
 
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speaker Jim Cathcart says, “The person you see is the person you will 
be.” 
You have a virtually unlimited ability to learn and develop new 
skills, habits and abilities. When you train yourself, through 
repetition and practice, to overcome procrastination and get your 
most important tasks completed quickly, you will move yourself onto 
the fast track in your life and career and step on the accelerator.
Eat That Frog! 

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