Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Published:: January 1, 2001
Author:: Tracy, Brian
Genre:: Self Help, Nonfiction, Productivity, Business, Personal Development, Psychology, Audiobook
Rating:: 4
date finished:: 2017-09-10
dates reread::

Description

The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 450,000 copies sold and translated into 23 languages) provides the 21 most effective methods for conquering procrastination and accomplishing more. This new edition is revised and updated throughout, and includes brand new information on how to keep technology from dominating our time.

Review

Some useful ideas

There were a lot of things in this book that I'm already doing to increase my productivity, but there were a few new ideas that I plan to try. As with a lot of put improvement books, it's the basic principle that's the most useful.

Highlights

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” — location: 711

Your self-esteem has been defined by psychologist Nathaniel Branden as “the reputation you have with yourself. — location: 875

Everything is learnable, and what others have learned, you can learn as well. — location: 1022

First, plan each day in advance, select your most important task, and then start on that task first thing, before you do anything else. Second, work nonstop for ninety minutes with no diversion or distraction, and then give yourself a fifteen-minute break. — location: 1074

self-discipline as “the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.” — location: 1224

Planted: Tuesday 27 May 2025
Last tended: Friday 25 July 2025