Eat That Frog

Title:: Eat That Frog!: Get More of the Important Things Done - Today!
Year:: 2016
Author:: Tracy, Brian
Genre::
Rating:: 4
date finished:: 2017-09-10

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