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Eat that frog: 21 great ways to  stop procrastinating  and get more done in less time CHAPTER SIXTEEN: MOTIVATE YOURSELF INTO ACTION Welcome to the grand finale of this interesting book summary. I'm so happy and honoured to have hosted you all this while. Did anyone miss me? Let me know in the comments section. Learn to become your own personal cheerleader to perform at your best. Encourage yourself to play at the top of your game because the way you interpret things that are happening to you largely determines how you feel. To keep yourself motivated, you must resolve to become a complete optimist, refusing to let the unavoidable difficulties and setbacks of daily life affect your word or emotions. To keep yourself motivated, you must resolve to become a complete optimist, refusing to let the unavoidable difficulties and setbacks of daily life affect your word or emotions. Optimism is the most important quality that you can develop for personal and professi...

Eat that frog: 21 great ways to  stop procrastinating  and get more done in less time CHAPTER ELEVEN: UPGRADE YOUR SKILLS Welcome again! I do hope you're doing fine. We've learned quite a lot and I guess we've been applying them to our lives and in our day to day activities. Did you know that a major reason for procrastination is a feeling of inadequacy, lack of confidence, or an inability in a key area of the ask? Hence, the need to upgrade your skills in your key result areas. The better you eat a particular type of frog, the more you're versatile in getting things done. Don't allow any weakness or lack of ability to hold you back because everything is learnable. Be ready to learn whatever skills you need to be more productive and more effective. Don't allow any weakness or lack of ability to hold you back because everything is learnable.  There are three steps to mastery; First, read in your field for at least one hour every day any...

Eat that frog: 21 great ways to  stop procrastinating  and get more done in less time CHAPTER SIX: USE THE ABCDE METHOD CONTINUALLY Yo! It's another series of Midweek Special and I greet you, welcome! ABCDE 🤔...we're throwing it all the way back to the creche 😂. However, the ABCDE method is a very powerful priority setting technique that you can use every single day. The power of this technique lies in its simplicity and here's how it works: Write a list of everything you have to do for the coming day, then place an A, B, C, D, or E next to each item on your list. "A" item is defined as something that is very important , something that you must do. This is a task that has serious positive or negative consequences if you do or fail to do it. "B" item is a task you should do. It has only mild consequences. "C" item is something that would be nice to do but for which there are no consequences at all, whether you do it or n...

CHAPTER THREE: APPLY THE 80/20 RULE TO EVERYTHING Aww...welcome back!!! So, here is the popular 80/20 rule also called the Pareto Principle . It is one of the most helpful of all the concepts of life and time management. The principle says that 20 percent of your activities/customers/products or services will account for 80 percent of your results/sales/profits respectively. Keep your focus on tasks that are more important. The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and complex. Once you actually begin to work it, you will be naturally motivated to continue. The rewards are however tremendous. Resist the temptation to clear up small things first! Effective and productive people discipline themselves to start on the most important task; they force themselves to eat that frog Start to think about starting and finishing an important thing or task because it motivates you and helps you to overcome procrastination. Effective and productive peo...

Eat that frog: 21 great ways to stop procrastinating and get more done in less time

A poem in praise of menstruation Two ovaries once told 'emselves, Let's make a self, Soon they were set, A messenger was sent, To be joined in legal union, With a visitor. The ballroom was set, The visitor expected, For a supposed set out, To start right away, In the hallway. The visitor anticipated in a while, Never arrived, But the messenger took to the way, Hoping for the best. Alas! The visitor never was present, For a matrimony, He was the be-all and end-all. The ovaries waxed wode, A great fury it was, The aftermath of which, Was the annihilation, Of the precious ballroom. The ball room, The feminine uterus. The ovaries' messenger, The matured ovum. The truant visitor, The expected sperm. The annihilation, The FLOW! ThePlainPen