Summary of Eat That Frog | a method to rival #gtd?

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Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy is an excellent synthesis of much of the existing productivity literature to date, achieving about 80% of the total benefits from time management.  My summary here attempts to condense the book into a few pages of critical insights, organized into four primary sections: organization, efficiency, identifying your strengths, and optimizing yourself.  Implementing even a small number of these techniques will result in greatly increased effectiveness.

DO NOT WAIT, the time will never be right

Seven Step Method

  1. Decide exactly what you want
  2. Write it down – thinking on paper is critical
  3. Set a deadline
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CARVER Method for Prioritizing Your To-Do List

By now you’ve probably heard that one of the best ways to become more productive is by prioritizing the items on your to do list. It’s no longer about finding clever hacks so that you can cross off every item on your list.  The new productivity paradigm states that you need to decide what’s most important, and make sure that you tackle those tasks first.  Lower priority tasks can be crossed off your list.

But how do you prioritize your to do list? How do you decide which tasks should get done first, and which ones you can draw a

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