Eat That Frog
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Brian Tracey's guide to achieving your goals.
- Set the table.
- Decide exactly what you want.
- Write it down.
- Set a deadline on your goal.
- Make a list of all substeps.
- Organize the list into a plan.
- Take action on the plan immediately.
- Resolve to do something every day that moves you towards your goal.
- Plan every day in advance.
- Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance.
- Master List
- Monthly List
- Weekly List
- Daily List
- Apply the 80/20 rule to everything.
- Pareto principle 80/20
- Resist the temptation to clear up small things first.
- Time management = Life management
- Consider the consequences.
- Long term thinking improves short-term decision making.
- Future intent influences and often determines present actions.
- Failures do what is "tension relieving", while winners do what is "goal achieving".
- Practice the ABCDE method continually.
- A = must do tasks
- B = should do tasks
- C = nice to do tasks
- D = delegate tasks
- E = eliminate tasks
- Focus on key result areas.
- Why am I on the payroll?
- Your weakest key result area sets the height at which you can use all your other skills and abilities.
- Obey the law of forced efficiency.
- "There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.
- Prepare thoroughly before you begin.
- Clean work area
- All the required tools.
- Do your homework.
- "Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field."
- Leverage your special talents.
- Focus on your best abilities.
- Identify your key constraints.
- Take it one barrel at a time.
- Oil drums to cross the desert - one step at a time.
- Put the pressure on yourself.
- You have to leave for an all-expense paid vacation tomorrow!
- Maximize your personal powers.
- Sleep enough
- One day a week: absolute vacation.
- Motivate yourself into action.
- Look for the good.
- Seek the valuable lesson in every setback.
- Look for the solution to every problem.
- Practice creative procrastination.
- You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower value activities.
- Do the most difficult task first.
- List everything you have to do.
- Review with ABCDE, 80/20
- Select A1
- Assemble everything needed
- Clear workspace
- Eat that frog.
- Sliceand dice the task.
- Salami slice - fixed units of work. at a time
- Swiss cheese method - fixed units of time at regular intervals.
- Create large chunks of time.
- Set aside time for specific work.
- Develop a sense of urgency.
- Get that mental state of "Flow"
- Develop a bias for action.
- Single handle every task
- Start a high-priority task and persist till its 100% done.
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