 What's up guys eyes like here represent the realized man back with another Realized summary notes or whatever you want to call it. I haven't even got a name for the series yet Maybe we can come up with some creative names later, but today's book is um eat that frog By Brian Tracy now the title of this book, right? Was named because I believe it was Napoleon Hill that said if you were to eat a frog First thing in the morning you can go on the rest of your day knowing that you've done the hardest thing first The rest of they will be a breeze if you eat that damn frog man. Now, um You don't really have to eat the frog. It's more of a metaphor So in today's summary, I'll be going through my top 10 notes from this book There's 21, but I'll go through the 10 best ones in my humble opinion So let's jump right into it guys our first one plan every day in advance As people we tend to forget about what we have to do quite often if you don't plan your day in advance It's pretty easy to you know procrastinate to not be focused on what you need to do to you know Wonder around maybe watch a little bit of TV kickback and What not and that's not what you want to do if we want to be effective So planning every day the night before Helps us stay in line It's really hard to forget about what you need to do when it's right there in front of your face And also does it added bonus effect to this when you go to sleep at night your subconscious mind starts thinking about you know your tasks for the next day and It's already on it It's already trying to break it down trying to see what you can do to make sure you hit your goals the next day So plan every day advance the night before and that way you will never screw up So that's the first tip from Brian Tracy's book. Let's move on to the next one apply the 80 20 rule to everything Like I talk about a 20 rule quite a lot and if you don't know what a 20 rule is it's the parades principle It's pretty much saying that most your results are going to come from a little bit of the stuff you do So we have 24 hours throughout the day. Obviously 24 hours is Not enough to do every single thing that we have to do But to guarantee that we're gonna get the best results what we can do is Do the most optimal things do the things that are going to get the most results So you need to figure out what exactly it is It's gonna get you the most results and what you're trying to accomplish and you need to do that first That is gonna be your main priority Everything else forget about it. If it doesn't give you big results forget about it Disregarded only focus on the things that hit with a big bang And you would definitely be on your way to doing great stuff. All right next one practice the ABC DE approach to task, you know optimization where a When you have your checklist you label a as your main priority task, right? A means it's something that you need to get done straight away It's the most valuable action item on your list B is something that's you know, we'll be nice to get done But perhaps you can let it slide B is just like B, but with a little bit more, you know, don't give a fuck So you need to focus on a and you search your Tustlist in that manner where you have your priorities at a and you go down the list in Lower priority tasks, right? So make sure you organize your test list in that way in that fashion and you know exactly what you need You do first thing in the morning So you hit all your a task first and everything else takes the backhand the back seat. So yeah a b c d e Priori tasking. All right, the next one is prepare thoroughly before you begin a lot of areas can be fixed by proper preparation a lot of people a lot of reasons that people mess up in you know, they're Tasks and goals is because they don't plan ahead. They say that a little bit of planning About 20 minutes of planning can save you up to two hours or three hours of work Because you take the time to make sure you don't do the wrong thing if you go straight into the task without a plan There is a good chance that you're gonna be doing the wrong thing You're gonna be spinning your wheels and just it's also your energy. So plan first. It really will save you a lot of time and Increase your clarity. So let's go to the next one leverage your special talents The thing is everybody as everybody is good at certain things You can't be good at everything right if you're trying to make a website and you're not really a techy type of guy The best thing you can do is Delegate or outsource your you know task. You need to focus on what you're good at What is your mission life? You need to focus on that? Don't try and learn everything. There's not enough time Some things you will have to outsource some things you will have to you know, skip out Sometimes you might just need to learn a basic level of understanding of certain things Perhaps if you are starting a website, you might need to learn the basics of HTML and CSS and whatnot But you'll need to be a badass programmer. You can get people to do that Spend a bit of extra money and save your time because your time is valuable It is probably your biggest asset. So you know leverage your talents focus on those upgrade your key skills If you're someone who's you know public speaking, perhaps you need a practice your public speaking Perhaps you dress a little bit better. Perhaps you need to work on your posture Standing upright when you're talking or perhaps your your voice Maybe you should be a bit louder and you upgrade your key skills the things that you are talented at or that you Need to accomplish your goals. You need to keep working on them I like this particular law or rule because it is telling you to continuously be upgrading never stay static Always try to one up your previous self. You got always be doing better if you want to become great So always be upgrading always be getting better. Okay. Here's another one for you guys slice and dice your task The biggest brick wall for a lot of people in accomplishing big tasks is they see the thing is one big ass Objective when you're about to do something big something legendary. You can't just see is one big ass objective was it's gonna scare you It's gonna lead you that procrastinate the easiest way you can, you know Do the things you want to do is to break it up into manageable bits I believe someone said that the journey over that hundred miles starts with a single step Or was that thousand miles doesn't matter. You guys tell the first step you gotta break it up, right? Focus on the small things and they add up over time if you're constantly focusing on what you can do today You will eventually get to where you want to be if you're thinking about the whole thing in one go It's gonna be a bit terrifying So break it down see what you could break it down to perhaps you want to write a book and do maybe a page or two a day and Within a year you're gonna have like 600 something pages How much effort is that you still the page today? It's not too much is it? But within a year you have that book done and there you go That's a good example of breaking it into small bits and trust me you get a lot of things done better It'll be more manageable give yourself a sense of urgency Start right now Don't worry about the perfect time. There is no perfect time Everybody's always waiting for the sunny day when the stars align when you know, they lose a bit away when they you know the The workplace changes a bit. There is no perfect time You got to start now or you're never gonna start You need to give yourself a bit of urgency perhaps a deadline or you know a set date when you need to accomplish a set task And that's gonna make you grind, you know, maybe have a little competition with your friend a little fitness challenge 90-day Cut where you're gonna lose some weight and you both have to do a bodybuilding competition or something like that Anyway, the point is you need to give yourself a bit of urgency so that you actually are motivated for the task That you actually put in more work towards it without sense of urgency You can trick yourself into thinking that you have forever. Really you don't you're gonna die one day And if you don't work towards the goals that you want to achieve right now, you're never gonna work towards them So you need to get that urgency and you start kicking ass man next one single handle every task Research has shown that people cannot actually multi-task All you can do is focus on one task and change and each time you change between different tasks. You're losing your ability, you know Operating at optimal frequency or alpha wave or whatever the hell the brain works out So you need to focus on one task at a time You need to find something and dedicate a seminar time into just grinding that through That's how you do your most optimal work The longer you get into it the more clear your mind gets if you're always switching between things You're definitely not having clarity of mind. You always have to adjust adjust adjust So find one thing at any given time and just focus on it if you're writing You know disconnect the internet and write if you're exercising get rid of all distractions and exercise studying study Just focus on one thing at a time and things would be much better for you create large chunks of time You need to set out Large chunks of time where you can just you know immerse yourself in your work You know have a set amount of time throughout the day where you're actually gonna do your work Perhaps maybe you wake up early 5 a.m. 5 a.m. To 10 a.m. 5 a.m. To 12 p.m. It's go time, baby You just focus on your stuff and just handle there Hammer it out if you don't have a set time. It's really easy to get sloppy. It's really easy to get distracted to you know Get into a metaphor and not be able to do what you want to do So if you have a seminar time you can build a habit build the discipline of just getting things done on a consistent basis You know that this is the time when I'm working the optimal Frequency and I can just get this done and you'll be able to do that every day Give me a huge advantage over the competition. So, you know Get big chunks of time immerse yourself and identify key constraints You know what they say they say a change only as strong as the weakest link So you need to find out what's stopping you from maximizing your potential. Is it your spelling? Is it your writing skills? Is it your speaking skills? Is it you sleep too much? You need to figure out what's stopping you need to work on that the one thing that if you got better at Improve your results dramatically You need to get to work on that identify your key constraints get rid of the weak chain and make yourself Hard man, like steel get our technological time sink now. This is a big one for the modern day We have all this social media iPads iPods, you know iPhone Samsung Galaxy you have all your technology right there Get rid of it when you're working Make it your friend have apps that help you in your work that make you more productive that make you do your work Better don't have all these random games or all these alerts and all this stuff is going to distract you That is gonna be your biggest pitfall in this day and age 2015 2016 or whatever you're listening to this if you are in Technology sync all the time how you're getting done. You need to make Technology your friend and not your enemy you shouldn't be engaged You shouldn't be getting stopped by small things like this. So make sure you get that sorted out. Anyway, those are my 10 I was a nine Doesn't matter. Make sure you guys check out the book go buy the book eat that frog Trust me. It's gonna help you be more productive. It's a great book Really practical a lot of these books these days on that practical man So make sure you check that out run Tracy's the man. Peace. Hope you enjoyed that