Eat That Frog!!!

There's an old saying that goes,

"If the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is eat a live frog, then nothing worse can happen for the rest of the day!"

Brian Tracy who is the author of the book, Eat That Frog says that your "frog" should be the most difficult item on your things to do list, the one you're most likely to procrastinate; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day. But, if you don't...and let him sit there on the plate and stare at you while you do a hundred unimportant things, it can drain your energy and you won't even know it.

So, the key here is not to procrastinate. In the same book mentioned above, Brian Tracy gives 21 tips to stop procrastinating. Here they are:

1. Get crystal clear about your goals
2. Plan every day in advance
3. Ruthlessly follow the pareto principle (getting the most important stuff done first)
4. Make daily decisions based on your long term goals
5. Do high, medium, and low priority tasks in THAT order
6. Focus on your key weak points holding you back
7. Always be doing the most important thing
8. Have everything you need at hand before you begin
9. Never stop developing your key skills
   
10. Pursue work that rewards your special talents
11. Blast open the biggest bottleneck to your success
12. Tackle all goals, especially the biggest ones, one task at a time
13. Supervisor, manage, and lead yourself
14. Keep your mind and body in top condition
15. Use positive self talk to eliminate negative self talk
16. Practice selective procrastination (get rid of the tadpoles and focus on the frogs)
17. Do the most difficult task first (eat that frog!)
18. Eat the salami, one slice at a time (our bodies crave closure, as soon as we finish 1 big task, start the next)
19. Block out chunks of time for your goals daily
20. Be urgent
21. Single-task (concentrate on single biggest task only and you can increase the amount of time to finish it by 50% or more)