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The more thought you invest in planning and setting priorities before you begin, the more important things you will do and the faster you will get them done once you get started. The more important and valuable the task is to you, the more likely you will be motivated to overcome procrastination and launch yourself [...]

One of the most powerful of all words in time management is the word “NO!”. Say it politely and courteously. Say it clearly so that there is no misunderstanding. Say it regularly as a normal part of your time management vocabulary. Say “NO” to anything that is not a high value use of your time [...]

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 [...]

According to Brian Tracy… “The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something. The potential consequences of any task or activity are the key determinants of how important it really is to you and to your company. This way of evaluating the [...]

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 [...]