Analysis Of Eat That Frog

For this book report I chose to read “Eat That Frog” by Brian Tracy. This book was a compilation of techniques and ideas of how to deal with time management and be personally productive. This book is very information and gives clear ways of how to overcome procrastination and how to get work done to prevent it from all creeping up on you at once. This book is very helpful and written in a simple way to help the readers get a good understanding on the importance of being effective so that we can achieve our goals. This book had 21 chapters and each one shared a different technique that would help someone to overcome procrastinating. As a college student there is never a week that goes by where I’m not busy. As I was reading this book I found that there were 3 out of the 21 techniques that really stood out and seemed like they would be helpful to me and other readers.

This strategy focused on doing the most difficult task first. This idea is how the book got its name. The idea being this strategy is that if every day you wake up and you have to do a task that you least look forward to and most likely to procrastinate on, by tackling that task before you do anything else you don’t have anything worse to do for the rest of the day. That is where eating the frog comes in. Mark Twain came up with the thought that by waking up and eating the frog you can go through the rest of your day knowing that nothing worst can happen to you. Another way that he saw it was that if you happen to have to eat two frog, eat the ugliest one first. Getting the most dreadful task done quickly leaves you more time and motivation to tackle the smaller task. Which won’t seem that difficult to complete after the big task is done and over with. The good thing behind this strategy is that fact that it can relieve stress from knowing that the hardest task of the day is