Eat That Frog - Chapter 14 - Put the Pressure on Yourself

• The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
• Thomas Edison
• Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision
• To reach your full potential, you must form the habit of putting the pressure on yourself and not waiting for someone else to come along and do it for you
• Lead the field
• See yourself as a role model for others
• Create imaginary deadlines
• One of the best ways for you to overcome procrastination is by working as though you had only one day to get your most important jobs done

Eat That Frog - Chapter 13 - Identify Your Key Constraints

• Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand.  The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Identify the limiting factor
• The accurate identification of the limiting factor in any process and the focus on that factor can usually bring about more progress in a shorter period than any other single activity.
• The 80/20 rule applied to constraints
• Look into yourself
• What is it in me that is holding me back?
• What sets the speed at which I get the results I want?
• Strive for accuracy

Eat That Frog - Chapter 12 - Leverage Your Special Talents

• Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake - that little more which is worth all the rest.
• Dean Briggs
• Increase your earning ability
• What is it that you do especially well?
• What are you good at?
• What do you do easily and well that is difficult for other people?
• Looking back at your career, what has been most responsible for your success in life and work to date?
• What have been the most significant frogs you have eaten in the past?
• Do what you love to do

Eat That Frog - Chapter 11 - Upgrade Your Key Skills

• The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
• Og Mandino
• Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.
• Pat Riley
• Never stop learning
• Rule
• Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.
• Three steps to mastery
• Read in your field one hour per day
• Take every course and seminar available on key skills that can help you
• Listen to audio programs in your car