Top Highlights

• The ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life.
• It has been said that if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long.
• Your “frog” is your biggest, most important task, the one you are most likely to procrastinate on if you don’t do something about
• The first rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.
• This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first. Discipline yourself to begin immediately and then to persist until the task is complete before you go on to something else.