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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

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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 professional success and happiness. Optimists seem to be more effective in every area of life. They have four special behaviours:

• Optimists look for the good in every situation, no matter what goes wrong or how it does.
• Optimists seek the valuable lesson in every setback or difficulties. They believe difficulties come not to destruct but to instruct.
• Optimists look for the solution to every problem
• Optimists think and talk continually about their goals.

Be an optimist!

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: GET OUT OF TECHNOLOGICAL TIME SINKS

Tech! Yeah😄, it's the 21st century, but don't you think we're really obsessed with this technology of a thing? Well... technology can be your best friend or your worst enemy.

...you must discipline yourself to treat technology as a servant, not as a master.

For you to stay calm and capable of performing at your best, you need to detach on a regular basis from technology and communication devices that can overwhelm you if you're not careful. Don't get addicted! If you want to concentrate on those few things that make the most difference in your business or personal life, you must discipline yourself to treat technology as a servant, not as a master. It was created to help you, not to hinder.

Get the most important things done first, other things can wait. Have you ever thought of anything that happens or will happen if you decide to neglect your mobile devices for a while? Absolute nothing!
Be the boss, not a slave.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: SLICE AND DICE TASK

A major reason for procrastinating on important tasks is because they appear so large and complex. But, if you resolve to slice it down to smaller chunks, you will find yourself working through the job with ease. When you start and finish a small piece of the task, it makes you feel motivated to start and finish another part. This sense of completion motivates you to start the next task and then persist until completion.
You really need a start...

CHAPTER NINETEEN: CREATE LARGE CHUNKS OF TIME 

Time is a limited resource material and is very important to us as individuals. You need to plan your time every single day. Divide your tasks into a time plan you've set because your ability to carve out and use these blocks of high value, highly productive time is centered on your ability to make a significant contribution to your work and life.

One of the keys to high levels of performance and productivity is to make every minute count. Your job in time management is to deliberately and creatively organize the concentrated time periods you need to get your key jobs done well and on schedule.

CHAPTER TWENTY: DEVELOP A SENSE OF URGENCY

One of the most outwardly identifiable qualities of high performing men and women is action orientation. When you work on your most important tasks at a high and continuous level of activity, you can actually enter a mental state of activity called the 'flow'. The flow is the highest human state of performance and productivity. It makes you feel elated and clear, everything you do seems effortless and accurate.

One of the ways you can trigger this state of flow is by developing a sense of urgency, the inner drive and desire to get on with the job quickly and get it done faster. It makes you develop a 'bias for action' and you take action rather than talking about it the whole time.

Momentum Principle of Success says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes less energy to keep going.

You can activate the Momentum Principle of Success when you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals. The principle says that "although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes less energy to keep going".

 The sense of urgency shifts you automatically onto the fast track in your career. Do it now!

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE: SINGLE HANDLE EVERY TASK

Single handling requires that once you begin, you keep working at that task without distraction until the job is fully complete. Whenever you feel tempted to stop or do something else, you keep urging yourself back with the words 'Back to work!'. It helps you to reduce the time required to complete it by 50 percent or more.

Elbert Hubbard defined self-discipline as "the ability to make yourself do what you should do when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not".

The more you discipline yourself to work nonstop on a single task, the more you progress on the 'efficiency curve', and anytime you stop working, you start all over again. Elbert Hubbard defined self-discipline as "the ability to make yourself do what you should do when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not".
Finally, success in any area requires tons of discipline. Self-discipline, self-mastery, and self-control are the basic building blocks of character and high performance. Eat that frog!

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