Eat That Frog
Pretty common sensical book on procrastination. It is one of the first book I read outside the academic school and college text books. And took me, I guess a month or so to complete.
Well the book is for beginners and novice readers, for general population, who aren't exposed to, you know, thick and dense books. But Tracy puts his ideas quite clearly with intelligible and straight forward words. He uses the Frog metaphor to explain the process of procrastination and how to avoid it.
According to Tracy, the best way to begin a day is to eat a frog, which is your most important and hardest task, and then move onto to other less significant and secondary tasks and so on. Generally this one single or few frog/s(or task), determine the overall productivity of your work. The undertaking of that task right away is not very different than actually eating a frog. It is last thing you would like to do, it is painful unbearable and, you just wouldn't do it.
So the author presents many practical guide and steps to overcome the challenge. Various tricks and techniques to make you little more efficient. And they are quite workable, if one really inclined to follow them. They are pretty basic. But sticking to basic isn't really that easy as it sounds. Its a good book for student and alike, or anyone who has need to make most of her time.
Well the book is for beginners and novice readers, for general population, who aren't exposed to, you know, thick and dense books. But Tracy puts his ideas quite clearly with intelligible and straight forward words. He uses the Frog metaphor to explain the process of procrastination and how to avoid it.
According to Tracy, the best way to begin a day is to eat a frog, which is your most important and hardest task, and then move onto to other less significant and secondary tasks and so on. Generally this one single or few frog/s(or task), determine the overall productivity of your work. The undertaking of that task right away is not very different than actually eating a frog. It is last thing you would like to do, it is painful unbearable and, you just wouldn't do it.
So the author presents many practical guide and steps to overcome the challenge. Various tricks and techniques to make you little more efficient. And they are quite workable, if one really inclined to follow them. They are pretty basic. But sticking to basic isn't really that easy as it sounds. Its a good book for student and alike, or anyone who has need to make most of her time.
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