Yes, “Eat That Frog” is a great (and slim!) book.

Brian Tracy is one of my favourite personal growth authors – not least because he was successful in business outside of the “self help” arena. I still have “Psychology of Achievement” on CD and love reading his book “Maximum Achievement”. The CDs get a play once a year. Fantastic material when you start to apply it… I took

Regarding “The Frog” technique. It can work very well if you at least take a bite out of the task every day (preferably in the morning, as you noted, before the immediate and urgent stuff starts drumming for attention lol!)

One thing which can derail this approach (especially in the corp world) is making the bite too big – just “keep starting” (masticating = taskitaking?!) is what seems to work in the medium/longer term view and increases the likelihood of the behaviour becoming habitual.

Another interesting perspective (and a simple set of techniques) are on UK time management coach Mark Forster’s web site and blog:
http://www.markforster.net/home/

The discussion forum and blog are fascinating places to see how others are applying Mark’s work with aspects of others (such as David Allen’s GTD).
Highly recommended material – if you have/make the time

Yes, “Eat That Frog” is a great (and slim!) book.

Brian Tracy is one of my favourite personal growth authors – not least because he was successful in business outside of the “self help” arena. I still have “Psychology of Achievement” on CD and love reading his book “Maximum Achievement”. The CDs get a play once a year. Fantastic material when you start to apply it… I took

Regarding “The Frog” technique. It can work very well if you at least take a bite out of the task every day (preferably in the morning, as you noted, before the immediate and urgent stuff starts drumming for attention lol!)

One thing which can derail this approach (especially in the corp world) is making the bite too big – just “keep starting” (masticating = taskitaking?!) is what seems to work in the medium/longer term view and increases the likelihood of the behaviour becoming habitual.

Another interesting perspective (and a simple set of techniques) are on UK time management coach Mark Forster’s web site and blog:
http://www.markforster.net/home/

The discussion forum and blog are fascinating places to see how others are applying Mark’s work with aspects of others (such as David Allen’s GTD).
Highly recommended material – if you have/make the time