Top 25 Valuable Lessons from the Book Eat that Frog By Adam Grant
If You Have to Eat Two Frogs, Eat the Ugliest one First
This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first. Discipline yourself to begin immediately and then to persist until the task is complete before you go on to something else.
If You Have to Eat a Live Frog at all, it Doesn’t Pay to Sit and Look at it for Very Long
The key to reaching high levels of performance and productivity is to develop the lifelong habit of tackling your major task first thing each morning. You must develop the routine of “eating your frog” before you do anything else and without taking too much time to think about it.
Here are the Top 25 Valuable Lessons from the Book Eat that Frog
1. There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to achieve it.
2. An average plan vigorously executed is far better than a brilliant plan on which nothing is done
3. For you to achieve any kind of success, execution is everything.
4. Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
5. The bigger your goals and the clearer they are the more excited you become about achieving them.
6. The more you think about your goals, the greater becomes your inner drive and your desire to accomplish them.
7. Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
8. Taking action without thinking things through is a prime source of problems.”
9. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are
10. Resist the temptation to clear up small things first.
11. Remember, whatever you choose to do over and over eventually becomes a habit that is hard to break.
12. Time management is life management, personal management.
13. Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
14. Long-term thinking improves short-term decision-making.
15. Future intent influences and often determines present actions.
16. Successful people are those who are willing to delay gratification and make sacrifices in the short term so that they can enjoy far greater rewards in the long term
17. Losers try to escape from their fears and drudgery with activities that are tension-relieving. Winners are motivated by their desires toward activities that are goal-achieving.”
18. There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”
19. There will never be enough time to do everything you have to do
20. “The things that matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter least.”
21. You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.
22. The first law of success is concentration to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.
23. When every physical and mental resource is focused, one’s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously
24. If you don’t do it, it doesn’t get done
25. Better you become in a particular skill area, the more motivated you will be to perform that function, the less you will procrastinate, and the more determined you will be to get the job finished.
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