Eat That Frog

Tips For Life By Chris Jensen One of my favorite books is called, Eat That Frog, by Brian Tracy. The principle of the book is this: if you had to eat a frog every day, you should make that the first thing you do because, undoubtedly, the rest of your tasks for the day would be much, much easier. Likewise, we all run into tasks that are, by our standards, difficult or unpleasant, so our tendency is to put them off. Procrastination is an easy thing to fall victim to, and before we know it, we are justifying all of our actions to make up for not eating our frog.

How do we overcome procrastination? Plan, Plan, Plan.

Write your daily plan down and then at the end of each day, report back to yourself on how you did. Did you eat your frog first? Did you accomplish the other aspects of your plan?

If you didn’t, see what stopped you and make adjustments for the next day. You will be amazed at what you learn about yourself and how fast you can make changes in your life to accomplish more in less time.