Summary of Eat that Frog

Summary of the book Eat That Frog ,the 21 Great Ways to stop procrastinating and get more things done faster.
1. Set the table: Decide exactly what you want. Clarity is essential.
Write out your goals and objectives before you begin;
2. Plan every day in advance: Think on paper. Every minute you
spend in planning can save you five or ten minutes in execution;
3. Apply the 80/20 Rule to everything: Twenty percent of your
activities will account for eighty percent of your results. Always
concentrate your efforts on that top twenty percent;
4. Consider the consequences: Your most important tasks and
priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences,positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all
else;
5. Practice creative procrastination: Since you can’t do everything,
you must learn to deliberately put off those tasks that are of low value so that you have enough time to do the few things that
really count;
6. Use the ABCDE Method continually: Before you begin work on a
list of tasks, take a few moments to organize them by value and 12. Leverage your special talents: Determine exactly what it is that
you are very good at doing, or could be very good at, and throw
your whole heart into doing those specific things very, very well:
13. Identify your key constraints: Determine the bottlenecks or
chokepoints, internally or externally, that set the speed at which
you achieve your most important goals and focus on alleviating
them;
14. Put the pressure on yourself: Imagine that you have to leave
town for a month and work as if you had to get all your major
tasks completed before you left;
15. Maximize your personal powers: Identify your periods of highest
mental and physical energy each day and structure your most
important and demanding tasks around these times. Get lots of
rest so you can perform at your best;

priority so you can be sure of working on your most important
activities:
7. Focus on key result areas: Identify and determine those results
that you absolutely, positively have to get to do your job well, and
work on them all day long;
8. The Law of Three: Identify the three things you do in your work
that account for 90% of your contribution and focus on getting
them done before anything else. You will then have more time for
your family and personal life;
9. Prepare thoroughly before you begin: have everything you need
at hand before you start. Assemble all papers, information, tools,
work materials and numbers so that you can get started and keep
going.
10. Take it one oil barrel at a time: You can accomplish the biggest
and most complicated job if you just complete it one step at a time
11. Upgrade your key skills: The more knowledgeable and skilled
you become at your key tasks, the faster you start them and the
sooner you get them done;

12. Leverage your special talents: Determine exactly what it is that
you are very good at doing, or could be very good at, and throw
your whole heart into doing those specific things very, very well:
13. Identify your key constraints: Determine the bottlenecks or
chokepoints, internally or externally, that set the speed at which
you achieve your most important goals and focus on alleviating
them;
14. Put the pressure on yourself: Imagine that you have to leave
town for a month and work as if you had to get all your major
tasks completed before you left;
15. Maximize your personal powers: Identify your periods of highest
mental and physical energy each day and structure your most
important and demanding tasks around these times. Get lots of
rest so you can perform at your best

16. Motivate yourself into action: Be your own cheerleader. Look for
the good in every situation. Focus on the solution rather than the
problem. Always be optimistic and constructive;
17. Get Out of The Technological Time Sinks: Use technology to
improve the quality of your communications, but do not allow
yourself to become a slave to. Learn to occasionally turn things off,
and leave them off;18. Slice and dice the task: Break large, complex tasks down into bite

sized pieces and then just do one small part of the task to get
started;
19. Create large chunks of time: Organize your days around large
blocks of time where you can concentrate for extended periods on
your most important tasks;
20. Develop a sense of urgency: Make a habit of moving fast on your
key tasks. Become known as a person who does things quickly
and well;
21. Single handle every task: Set clear priorities, start immediately
on your most important task and then work without stopping
until the job is 100% complete. This is the real key to high
performance and maximum personal productivity.
Make a decision to practice these principles every day until they become second nature to you. With these habits of personal
management as a permanent part of your personality, your future
success will be unlimited.
Just do it! Eat that frog