I’ve Overcome My ‘Weight Problem’ By Eating That Frog (Testimonial Series)

I am a successful Senior Head of a reputable company. With such position come heavy loads of task and responsibilities everyday. I had a set of ways in doing things, but was further harnessed in one memorable seminar. I met my wife there by the way. Anyways, I once attended this Eat That Frog seminar. I listened to Brian Tracy’s concepts and principles and applied it in the office. It completely changed my life. I always yielded the quickest and expected results. I became more effective with my management by being goal oriented. I learned to practice brief morning meetings only discussing about daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly goals. I am always loaded with tons of responsibilities everyday but managed to eat that frog.

I am now living as a single dad of 3 kids. I’m tremendously loving and enjoying it but it harmed my strategy in work.

It was not too long ago; when my wife took her last breathe after giving birth to our twins due to some complications.



I lost hope and wanted to kill myself when I saw the flat line in front of me. “Clear!” shouted the doctor, “clear!” responded the nurse. I can’t believe it was happening right before my very eyes. I was in denial and wanting to wake up from a very bad dream. It pierced my heart and went through my soul! It was really painful. I lost a woman I loved so much.

Now, our twins “Frederico and Angela” are both 8 months old.

Though my mum and my sister assisted me, I can’t rely on them anymore for they too have their own lives. My eldest Juri, who is 4 years old recently, started play school. His class is only half day so I usually pick him up in his friend’s house just two blocks away our house. Good thing our company has a daycare where I can bring the twins at work and just check at them if I do have the chance.

The biggest frogs are always there, that’s for a fact. I’ve become so successful with my career by applying the Eat That Frog principles why can’t I do it in my household. So, to make the long story short, by eating those ‘overweight’ frogs FIRST practically made me feel weightless.

Make a Decision (Testimonial Series)

Brian Tracy argues that one of the most effective productivity boosters is to make a clear decision to do something or stop doing anything. Either way, do something or not. Make a decision right and get started! Eat That Frog absolutely shared useful concepts for wealth and productivity in practical applications.

For a lot of people including me, who loves to procrastinate, tends to be unproductive and incompetent. Wasting time and energy thinking about something I really should do, or I really should stop doing, or I really would like to achieve has been a common concern. But I don’t make a clear decision either way.

Decisiveness requires self-discipline, practice and repetition to eventually become a habit. It’s worth the effort, because it will maximize your productivity and make you more successful in life. Decisiveness as a second nature will make it easier to fight procrastination and to do what should do when you should do it (regardless if you’re in or not).
Getting things done and decisiveness make a great tag team. The concepts of GTD are good for clearing your head of stuff and creating a trusted system with all of your projects and next actions. However, it is all too easy to only think about your projects without Thinking On Paper. To only think about the next action that you should be doing deals with your focus. And to only think about that wonderful time on your “someday to do list” deals with your commitment. Without a decision, without delivery, it’ll all remain abstract.

Now enhance you getting things done system by applying the habit of decisiveness. By eating that frog, it directs you to a decision accompanied with an action, which project you, should be working on FIRST. Be decisive when it comes to alter stuff from your someday or maybe list into a real project. Do that and get started!

I challenge anyone who is reading this, to make a decision in your life right now. Decide to be highly productive. Decide to be rich. Decide to be successful. Make it now! By just learning from Brian Tracy’s ‘Eat That Frog’ – no frog has an escape.

Bulls Eyed on what Matters (Testimonial Series)

Brian Tracy’s ‘Eat That Frog’ is a great book instead of a less palatable title. But it totally agrees with the basic argument of the book. This is where eating a ‘frog’ is used as a metaphor that means doing the most important thing. This is the task you are most likely to put off, it being mist likely not so good, but also almost certainly the one that will have the greatest probable impact in your life.

The book makes the argument (in which I agree) that there is never time to do everything on your to-do list, and there will be never. Hence, as an alternative of reading so many self-help books on how to organize your life – focus is the key. As well as, you try to do yeoman’s job of chasing the finishing point of all tasks, you have to accept the fact that if you cannot get everything done, you might as well spend your energy on the most important task available.

This goes back to the 80-20 rule, which is that the most important top 20% of all your task will most likely determine 80% of your success, and as a replacement for ticking it off one by one (most people do their task list in chronological order, easiest first and the hard part later), there is a good stand point t believe you can be more successful by just focusing on these top 20%.

This book focuses on three vital aspects of effective personal time management: decision, discipline and determination. The book presents 21 ways to do this. It is a short yet practical book only 144 pages but nevertheless shows far more substance than many books thicker in size.

Sugar and Spice Everything but Nice (Testimonial Series)

I did, like a good deal of other students, have a problem where I didn’t do homework because of distractions along the way. I even procrastinated from doing schoolwork by reading books. Well after a while I started growing an interest in self-help workbooks because of my failing mark and my worry about trying to have a better life. This is one of the first few I picked up, Brian Tracey’s “Eat That Frog!”.

With informative books, I usually read the book with a highlighter in tow. For this reason, highlighting all the main ideas throughout the book serves as a refresher. I could just read the highlighted parts later on if I wanted to de reminded. Well after a while I began to notice that I was highlighting way too much. For the reason that the book was filled with vital concepts. On any page you can find great advice to get you out of the forty winks you feel starting to sink in. The book is divided into chapters and each chapter has specific ideas and concepts. The advice isn’t exactly linear. You can open any chapter and still learn something out of it without a big problem (but it is better to read it from front to back). Every after chapter there is a skill taught for you to do what is provided. It will help you better comprehend and develop certain skills discussed like

* Goal setting
* Planning
* Imposed deadlines
* Attacking the Biggest Frogs FIRST

So far I still don’t have immediate results, but I feel much better about my next semester and will continue referring back to this. Eat That Frog is not a quick solution but a practical one. By being more efficient and a better individual, you got to develop certain skills by applying it like baby steps in your life. Definitely, Eat That Frog is a good start.

ALTO CREO (Testimonial Series)

Let me give you a little background about myself.

I teach DAY MANAGEMENT over TIME MANAGEMENT.

I’ve come across Brian Tracy’s book, ‘Eat That Frog!” and let me tell you what I think.

So our opinions differ a little regarding this certain aspect. This book makes you prioritize things you must do each day, eating the ugliest frog FIRST. This is twofold. It eliminates procrastination and trepidation. I told my clients to do the thing they fear most first. Why spend the day dreading that awful phone call? Anxiety builds and so does the discomfort. We are saying the same different was. Where we differ is what I teach and that is basically sales and self-promotion. You can find any frog uglier than your marketing responsibilities.

My clients create their marketing plan, with daily action items they commit to do. No matter the number of frogs out there. The energy over the visual of Eating A Frog is so emotional that it actually lingers. That what makes it such a fascinating medium. I use the same language to my clients and I often hail an accomplishment accredited to. “Just sat down and ate that frog”. Eat That Frog will alter your perspective and attitude on * Procrastination * Time management * Focus * Productivity and * Wealth Initially, I did not believe it, because although most populace told me I work more than anyone they know. I can dig my boots in as stubbornly as another. But as I felt that wave coming on, I just ate the frog.

What's Your Frog Like Today?

I know you have a lot of 'frogs' (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly tasks) lined up.

All getting fat and ripe ei and waiting to be eaten?

Let's make our lives easy now. Tell me what your frog is 'coz it's my
BIGGEST FROG!!!

I’m Now Eating Frogs for Dinner

“There is one quality that one must possess to win and that is a definite purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and the burning desire to achieve it”

I learned of this book ‘Eat That Frog’ – Brian Tracey International Best-seller from a friend who has the 1st edition of it. As I glanced through his copy and noticed this post-it notes on the side. He said you have to grab your copy of this book; it will put your life in order. So I bought a copy of the 2nd edition and read the book through. I then marked that task that I felt will help me find the missing hours in a day -- so things will get accomplished, instead of being brushed under the rug.

Sometimes it just seems amazing that at the end of the day, week or a month – you conquered your own time by focusing only on your ‘frogs’. Just by eating the biggest and ugliest frogs first will surely make all the difference. It seems that nothing or not a whole lot seemed to be accomplished. I work in Direct Sales so it also helps. It helped me manage and organize my time by:

• Finding time to take care of the household stuff
• Spending quality time with my family as well as, taking care of their needs
• And being able to spend time with clients to cater to them better

With the “Yes I can” attitude, nothing’s impossible. This book will definitely get you away from procrastinating and work with your goals. It’s a win-win predicament.