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Book Review: Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time" by Brian Tracy

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Finance, Retirement, Insurance, Business, Money, Education, Self-improvement, Financial, Independence, Growth, Advice, Investing, Family, Personal, Radical, Christian, Faith

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2015

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

"Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time" by Brian Tracy is an absolute goldmine of a book. Without question, this is a 5-star book.

Before you read it though, it's important for you to understand what it is and what it isn't.

It's not a deep-dive treatise of productivity systems; rather, it's an overview of the core principles of productivity that you need in order to organize your life around accomplishing more, meaningful things that will move you toward your goals.

It's short, fast, and pithy.

Tracy begins with the big picture focus of making sure you're doing the right things--planning the things to do that directly tie to your goals and things that are going to have the biggest impact on your achievement of those goals. Then he continues with the practical suggestions to help you actually do those things.

Here's my recommendation: get the audiobook version and listen to it on the first of every month for the next 60 months.

Even if you did nothing else for your personal development and improvement it would be enough to catapult you into the upper tiers of your company and career.

Enjoy!

Joshua

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey Radicals, this is Joshua Sheets, host of the Radical Personal Finance

0:05.0

podcast. Here today with a book review for Brian Tracy's book, Eat That Frog.

0:11.0

21 great ways to stop procrastinating and get more done in less time.

0:15.9

So eat that frog by Brian Tracy.

0:19.5

This book for me is a five-star book review.

0:21.5

I love this book. Now let me tell you why so you can decide

0:24.7

if it's right and useful for you. But I absolutely love this book. Of all of the

0:29.0

productivity books that I have read, this one is one of the most pithy, concise, and yet comprehensive books.

0:37.0

It's a great comprehensive overview that touches on each of the key important elements of productivity, but doesn't go too

0:46.1

deep.

0:47.1

And so for me, it's really, really useful as a reminder book, as a review book.

0:52.2

There are many great books on productivity that go deep on the philosophy or on the science or on a specific tool.

0:59.0

A lot of them go shallow and just talk about the value of a certain tool, a certain approach.

1:04.4

But there are very few books that give you a comprehensive overview, and this is a great one

1:08.8

to do that.

1:10.1

Brian Tracy goes through 21 specific ideas, and he starts with the big picture ideas of concept and of mindset talking about how to make sure that you're doing the right things.

1:21.0

The biggest waste of time is to do something well that doesn't need to be done at all.

1:25.3

Then focusing in on the highest priority things, how to run all the things that you do out

1:31.0

of your list of goals to make sure that you're doing the right things.

1:33.7

And then he ultimately goes down to some simple mindset tricks, some simple ways to make sure

1:38.4

that you can trick yourself into being more focused and more productive.

1:42.1

For me, the major benefit of this book is as a constant review

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