Book Summary of "Eat that Frog" by Brain Tracy Click here to tweet about this - ****** Link to our app, Booklet - ****** The frog is actually a metaphor for your biggest and most important task. After this watching this book summary, you will know all the ways to avoid procrastination thereby increasing your efficiency. The title is inspired by Mark Twain who once said that if you start the day by eating a frog, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that this this was the worst thing you had to do that day. Strategies of this book are similar to “The One thing”, I would recommend you watch its summary - ****** Eat that frog can be divided into two Parts First part is about importance of planning. This part will help you to avoid procrastination at the first stage itself. Planning part includes 1- Goal Setting 01:23 2- Pareto Principle 02:04 3- The Sahara desert 03:07 In second part is about execution strategies for avoiding procrastination from occurring in middle of your tasks. Let us start with Part 1 Goal Setting The best way to beat procrastination is by “Setting Goals.” Creating list of your goals gives the clarity which helps in prioritizing of tasks. According to your priorities, plan your each day. Many people avoid the planning because they think it is time consuming, but people should remember that 10 minutes spent in planning will save about 90 minutes in execution. Start planning by creating a list of all the activities required for achieving your main goals. Once the list is prepared, apply Pareto Principle. Pareto principles states that 20% of task accounts to 80% of results. Let us understand Pareto principle with an example - Let us assume that your job is sell products to young people on social media platforms like: 1- Facebook 2- Instagram 3- Snapchat 4- Linkedin 5- Periscope 6- Twitter 7 – Youtube 8- Tumblr 9-Pinterest 10- Vine But by observing statistics, you realize that, youngsters use more of Instagram and snapchat. That 20% activities, will give you 80% of your income. Promotion on Instagram and Snapchat should be done as the first thing. And if time is not available after that, it is okay to procrastinate the promotion on others platforms. One of the biggest causes of procrastination is when you feel that the task is too big to get started. Let us learn how to tackle that by Sahara desert example. The Sahara desert is 500 miles in a single stretch, without any food and water. More than 1300 people had perished in the crossing of that stretch in previous years. Often drifting sands had obliterated the track across the desert and the travelers got lost in the night. To counter this lack of features the French marked the track with black, 55 gallon oil drums, five kilometers apart. Because of this, wherever you were in the daytime, you could see two oil barrels, the one you had just passed, and the one five kilometers ahead. And that was all you needed to stay on course. As a result, people were able to cross the biggest desert in the world by simply taking it “one oil barrel at a time.” Thus break your goals into smaller one and procrastination can be avoided. Summarizing the planning part – Set your goals, once the goals are set – get the list of activities. Make the list small by applying Pareto principle and then break your bigger tasks into smaller one. In next part, you will learn about execution strategies for avoiding procrastination from occurring in middle of your task. Keep Reading.. keep Growing..