Saturday, February 12, 2011

Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time PDF

Rating: Author: Brian Tracy ISBN : Product Detai New from Format: PDF
Direct download links available PRETITLE Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time POSTTITLE from 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror linkCompletely revised and updated edition of a book that sold more than 500,000 copies and has been translated into 25 languages
Features new chapters on setting priorities and mastering technological distractions
Distills the best ideas, techniques, and strategies for effective personal time management into one concise, immediately useful volume
There just isn't enough time for everything on our "to do" list--and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.
There's an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that it's probably the worst thing you'll do all day. Using "eat that frog" as a metaphor for tackling the most challenging task of your day--the one you are most likely to procrastinate on, but also probably the one that can have the greatest positive impact on your life--Eat That Frog! shows you how to zero in on critical tasks and organize each day. You'll not only get more done faster but get the right things done.
Bestselling author Brian Tracy cuts to the core of what is vital to effective time management: decision, discipline, and determination. In this fully revised and updated edition, he provides brand new information on how to keep technology from dominating your time. He details twenty-one practical steps that will help you stop procrastinating and get more of the important tasks done--today!
Eat That Frog may also be purchased by chapters from Fast Fundamentals: The BK Whitepaper Series.Direct download links available for PRETITLE Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time POSTTITLE
  • File Size: 218 KB
  • Print Length: 145 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1576754227
  • Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 2nd edition (January 1, 2007)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B001AFF25W
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray:
    Enabled
  • Lending: Not Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,820 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
    • #8 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Business & Investing > Business Life > Time Management
    • #18 in Books > Business & Investing > Skills > Time Management
    • #39 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Self-Help > Personal Transformation
  • #8 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Business & Investing > Business Life > Time Management
  • #18 in Books > Business & Investing > Skills > Time Management
  • #39 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Self-Help > Personal Transformation

Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time PDF

I don't write a lot of reviews, and I depend on Amazon reviews to help me have honest, non-biased opinion to help me spend my money. In that spirit, let me say that "Eat That Frog" is a complete waste of money. There are a number of good books on procrastination out there, but this book is not one of them.

What ideas this book may contain can all be gleaned from the reviews already written here on Amazon. There's actually more substance in some of them than in the entire book itself. I found myself shaking my head and angrily turning every page, frustrated that Tracy could get away with publishing a book so completely devoid of content. Fortunately this book is short; it deserves to be a pamphlet. A very short pamphlet.

That's not completely fair. The book has content, but it's either embarrassingly common sense, or startlingly unoriginal. Add in the fact that Tracy writes like, well, a second-tier motivational speaker and there you've got it. For example, here's a sentence from chapter 9, "Refuse to allow a weakness or lack of ability in any area to hold you back." Does that motivate you? Does it help you in any way? Me neither. Fill 113 pages with large type and a lot of white space with this empty, thoughtless, and above all condescending blather and you, too, can write a motivational book.

Oh, and don't forget to fill ten pages with blatant self-promotion ("Double your income, Double your time off!") just to beef up the page count and make the book a little thicker.

Perhaps you really are a desperate procrastinator (like myself) who's looking for someone to help him out of his overwhelmingly negative habits. You want to find a book to help?

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