The ability to concentrate on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement and happiness in life - Brian Tracy -
This key insight is at the heart of this book. In fact, everyone has this big "frog", the most important task to complete, on which they keep on procrastinating, albeit they know that completing it will certainly relieve them from consistent stress and anxiety.
Brian Tracy, the best seller author of a dozens of books revolving around self-development and life organization , spotlights key techniques towards effectiveness and productivity at work. His book « Eat that frog » had become quickly a master piece in the field of efficiency in time organisation. In this first article, I’ll try to highlight the key insights revealed in the book.
Setting clear goals and getting the work done
An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but who gets very little done.
Discipline yourself to begin immediately and then to persist until the work is complete before you move on to something else, because the key to reaching high levels of performance and productivity is to develop the habit of tackling your major task first thing every morning: "Successful, effective people are those who launch directly into their major tasks and then discipline themselves to work steadily and single-mindedly until those tasks are complete."
The habits to success are learnable
The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination, and getting on with your most important tasks is a mental and physical skill.
This habit is learnable through practice and repetition, until it locks into your subconscious mind and becomes and integral part of your behavior.
There’s another fact that supports this idea. We are designed mentally and emotionally in such a way that task completion gives us a positive feeling. Whenever we complete a task of any size or importance, we feel a surge of energy, enthusiasm, and self-esteem. The more important the completed task is, the happier, more confident, and more powerful we feel.
Visualize yourself as you want to be
See yourself as the kind of person who gets important tasks done quickly and well on a consistent basis.
It consists of your thinking continually about the rewards and benefits of being an action-oriented, fast-moving, and focused person. Your self-image, the way you see yourself from the inside, largely determines your performance on the outside.
This article is inspired from the book 'Eat That Frog', by Brian Tracy
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