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I read Eat That Frog a few years ago when I was looking to improve my productivity and efficiency towards my business. It helped me in a number ways to clarify what action items that I needed to take to build my business. The book is a 21 step process to stop procrastinating and get more done in less time.
Here are the three key things that I thought were most useful when using this book:
1. The best way to be more productive is to focus on your most important task. For example, if you have two projects to finish today and you could only finish one, which one is more important for you to complete. Would you A. call a client to get a sale, or B. e-mail everyone that you will be out of town for two weeks? That might be a simple choice, but the reason it is important is that getting your priority items done first frees your mind to accomplish everything else that you need to do for the day. Also, if all that you accomplished on any given day was your top priority, then at least you made some progress. The idea behind this comes from the Pareto principle, which states that only 20% of what we do have a real impact. The rest is useless work that can be outsourced or eliminated from your day. Use this in every aspect of your life and you will see tremendous growth in everything you do.
2. Now that you have figured out what is most important, the opportunity is to plan your day accordingly. Rate the importance of everything you do in a day from A to E. After you have completed everything ranked A you can then go to B, and so on. The idea is a continuation of the Pareto Principle mentioned above. Remember that anything marked E is probably something that you do not need to do. Knowing what you have to do will make it that much easier to get it done.
3. After you have determined the order of importance for what you are doing today, the key is to do each task until it is finished. Multitasking does not work. Instead it decreases people's efficiency and they end up spending longer amounts of time on everything they are working on for, the day. Work on one thing at time and have all the tools you need to complete it at your fingertips. Then when you are finished you can move onto the next project faster and more effectively.
These three points from Brian Tracy's Eat That Frog are crucial to stopping procrastination and getting more done in less time. Every day write down what you need to get done, and then rank everything from A-E with your priority project listed first. You will accomplish more than you ever expected and get rid of a lot of unneeded activities as well.
Andy Nathan
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