Looking for new perspectives on improving my leadership skills, I found a great motivational book Eat That Frog! by the Canadian personal development speaker Brian Tracy. This book is a set of simple methods which can help arrange one’s work. Eat That Frog! is a perfect example of how to stop procrastinating and start getting positive results. The practical value of this book for our program consists of a simple presentation of the key aspects which motivate us to achieve better results.
First of all, this book tells us that goals are the fuel in the furnace of success (Eat That Frog! 2002, p. 68). The key aspect: you just have to go ahead and do your work. Just eat that frog. Don’t try to find the reasons explaining why you don’t want or don’t have to work. Just go and do this work. And soon you will get amazing results. You have to identify your goal and go ahead.
The second important key to success is the ability to concentrate on the most important part of the task, to do it right, and to complete your job. From time to time, it is complicated work to choose the main part among all the components. The worst waste of time is doing something good and understanding that you didn’t have to do it at all. However, when you realize it you start turning your life from a waste of time to victory.
Thirdly, you always have to continue learning. It is the major requirement for success in any field of your activity. By doing your homework, you will get the new possibility of a quick achievement (Eat That Frog! 2002, p. 52). That means you should be prepared for the future result. Productivity is impossible without learning and preparation.
Besides, you always should remember that difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct (“Fight or Flight”). Let your problems and doubts feed your desire to achieve success. Release your fears.
The last important key, according to Tracy, is a decision. Tracy says that it is really sad that people are poor only because they have not decided yet to be rich. They are overweight and in a bad physical condition because they have not decided to be healthy and athletic. People waste time because they have not decided to spend it productively (“Stop Wasting Time”).
I recommend this book because I am sure of its practical importance for our program. The simple explanations of this book can help us to get more results. Besides, it is extremely important to know how to stop procrastinating and get more results in the short term. Also, Tracy emphasizes self-assertion as the key aspect of success. 21 Great Ways of Tracy gives us obvious examples of how to get easy positive results. Eat That Frog! inspired me, and I am sure that this book can come in handy for everyone. According to Trace, changing our way of thinking, we are changing our lives. Regularly eating our fogs, we can develop new habits to get more results; we can accomplish more than we expect (“Seven Steps to Developing a New Habit”).
Perhaps, you can say that reading this book is a waste of time because of its simple way of narration and even more simple advice. However, I think that the simple way of writing is not a case of objection. This way of description makes the book more clear and understandable.
“Eat That Frog” as a metaphor of taking any kind of work helps to clarify the most important keys to success. This book motivates and inspires me to learn more, to work harder, and improve my leadership skills.
Reference List
Tracy, B. (2002). Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Way to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
Tracy, B. (2010). Fight or Flight: Overcoming Your Fears.
Tracy, B. (2011). Seven Steps to Developing a New Habit.
Tracy, B. (2011). Stop Wasting Time: Find the Right Job For YOU!