Eat That Frog!
Library · Habits, discipline and career
- Author: Brian Tracy
- FinSimLab editorial rating: 3.5/5
- Reading difficulty: Easy
- Finance level: Beginner
- Topics: Habits and personal growth, Income and career
- Published: 2001
- Length: Short
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Techniques to identify the most important task of the day and do it before anything else.
What is it about?
Tracy starts from a simple idea: if you have to eat a frog, do it first thing and do not stare at it too long. The "frog" is the important task you tend to put off. The book gathers twenty-one short techniques to prioritise, plan the day and start with the hard part. Several are common sense and the tone is that of a productivity manual, but it reads in an afternoon.
What does it give you?
- How to decide which task has the most impact on your week.
- Why it pays to start with the hard part rather than the urgent or comfortable one.
- How to break a task that blocks you into small steps.
Is it for you?
People who have been putting off reviewing their spending, opening an investment account or a pending negotiation for months.
When to read it: Build. You want to sort out your finances and build a base.
Where does it apply?
Universal. Its ideas do not depend on the laws, taxes or products of a particular country.
Concepts it covers
Prioritising and not putting things off, Habits
What does it not give you?
- How to keep a habit going for years: for that, see Atomic Habits.
- Evidence: it is advice from experience, with no studies behind it.
How does it explain it?
Twenty-one very short chapters, each with a technique and the steps to apply it. (Practical, Step-by-step method)
What does it add?
Atomic Habits teaches you to repeat; this one teaches you to start. Its main value is doing today the important money task you keep putting off.
Already read something similar?
- It shares consistency and doing what matters without relying on motivation with Atomic Habits. If you have read Atomic Habits, this one mainly adds short techniques to prioritise the day and stop putting off the hard task. Atomic Habits
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