05/09/2007 | Post By: P.L. Meindertsma
Eat That Frog: Chapter 1
Chapter one was awesome! I will list my thoughts in bullet point; otherwise I may end up re-writing the entire chapter.
• Brian started out talking about how we will never get everything done; the reading, tasks at work…we will always be catching-up
• Write you thoughts on paper. He indicated that spending 10-15 minutes organizing a 'to do' list first thing in the morning, can save you as much as 2 hour / day.
• ‘Eat that frog’ is the same analogy as “how do you eat an elephant – one bite at a time”. The frog in this book is the big task we don’t want too tackle, but we know is most important.
• He says: “Eat the big frog before you start to eat all of the little ones”. Take care of all the big ugly important tasks first thing in the morning, then, if you have time, take care of the little things.
• We get bogged down with the little things and therefore, never get to the big things. These are the days when you leave work and ask yourself, ‘what did I do today?’, because nothing significant happened.
• Taking care of the big tasks and accomplishing them give us a feeling of satisfaction. Therefore we need to train ourselves to avoid doing the little things – the ones we should be delegating – and finish the big important tasks.
More to come in the next couple of days
I would love to hear some stories or situations when you applied some of these strategies, or you should have applied them.