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Creative procrastination is one of the most effective of all personal performance techniques. In fact, it can change your life! When I first heard Brian Tracy say this I was confused. Hadn’t I been learning about not procrastinating? The fact is, you can’t do everything you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something! [...]

There are three questions you can ask yourself on a regular basis to keep focused on getting your most important tasks completed on schedule. The first question: “What are my highest value activities?” In other words, what are the biggest frogs you have to eat to make the greatest contribution to your business? To your [...]

The 80/20 rule is one of the most practical and helpful concepts for time and life management. It is also called the Pareto Principle after its founder, Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who first wrote about it in 1895. Pareto noticed that people in his society seemed to divide naturally into what he called the “vital [...]

You have heard the old question, “How do you eat an elephant?” Answer: “One bite at a time!!” So, how do you eat your biggest, ugliest frog??? The same way, you break it down into specific step by step activities and then you start on the first one. As you would have seen, for those [...]

Before you decide what your “frog” is and get on with the job of eating it, you must decide exactly what it is you want to achieve in each area of your life. Clarity is so important in personal productivity. The main reason why some people get more done than others is that they are [...]

Your success in life and work will be determined by the habits you develop over time. The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination and getting on with your most important task is a mental and physical skill. Once it becomes a habit, it becomes both automatic and easy to do. This is one of the [...]

Mark Twain once said… When you are in business your ’frog’ is the biggest, most important task on your list… the one you are most likely to procrastinate about. It is also usually the one task that can have the greatest positive impact on your life and results. Brian says the first rule of frog [...]

So here we are at the start of a new year with new goals and new plans. It is very exciting however it can also feel overwhelming when we look at our list of tasks on our to do list. Have you ever found yourself procrastinating or putting things off at the start of a [...]

Yesterday on our Facebook page, we asked the question, how do you give yourself a ‘check up from the neck up’ to kick off the new year and it reminded me of how I used to train my team on regularly giving yourself an ACE checkup. I knew if I wanted to be successful in my [...]