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Eat That Frog: Putting It All Together
This comes direction from the book starting at page 105. Putting It All Together The key to happiness, satisfaction, great success, and a wonderful feeling of personal power and effectiveness is for you to develop the habit of eating your frog first thing every day when you start work. Fortunately, this is a learnable skill that you can acquire through repeti…
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A Review: Eat That Frog Part 6
Chapter 19 : Create Large Chunks of Time : Eat That Frog! "1. Think continually of different ways that you can save, schedule, and consolidate large chunks of time. Use these times to work on important tasks with the most significant long-term consequences. 2. Make every minute count. Work steadily and continuously without diversion or distraction b…
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A Review: Eat That Frog Part 5
Chapter 15 : Technology is a Terrible Master : Eat That Frog! "1. Resolve today to create zones of silence during your day-to-day activities. turn off your computer and your smartphone for one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon. You will be amazed at what happens: nothing. 2. Resolve to unplug from technology for one full day each week. …
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A Review: Eat That Frog Part 4
Chapter 11 : Upgrade Your Key Skills : Eat That Frog! "1. Identify the key skills that can help you the most to achieve better and faster results. Determine the core competencies that you will need to have in the future to lead your field. Whatever they are, set a goal, make a plan, and begin developing and increasing your ability in those areas. Decide…
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A Review: Eat That Frog Part 3
Chapter 8 : Apply the Law of Three "1. What are your three most important business or career goals right now? 2. What are your three most important family or relationship goals right now? 3. What are your three most important financial goals right now? 4. What are your three most important health goals right now? 5. What are your three most importa…
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A Review: Eat That Frog Part 2
Chapter 4 : Consider the Consequences "'There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.'" pg 25 "' What can I and only I do, that if done well, will make a real difference? '" pg. 28 Chapter 4 : Consider the Consequences : Eat That Frog! "1. Review your list of …
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A Review: Eat That Frog Part 1
I don't write real reviews because I don't want to. You get what you get. However, there are so many good points in this book that I want to keep for myself that I might as well write a blog post about it so we can both share in the wisdom, woot woot! This is going to be long enough to break up into multiple posts. At the end I will add them altogether…
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Year in Review
A Review of My 2021 Goals
I thought I would review my 2021 goals as it has been a hot minutes since I've even take a look at the list: Marathon: We tried doing a marathon and it got canceled due to covid. We are scheduled to run an unorthodox ultramarathon in October that will technically cover this. Tough Mudder: woot woot! Nailed it. Everesting: Turns out that this event is very e…
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What If - One Week Challenge
What if for one week you went balls to the wall... (screech) balls to the wall. Where did that come from? Wikitionary StackExchange I guess you could say that the opposite to balls to the wall would be vagina to recliner. Any whooooo. What if for one week you went balls to the wall on your main goal? Just one week. You can do anything for one week. Would …
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Year in Review
Rock June with Baby Steps
If you aren't tracking, stop reading and go make notes of the important things (important things to you) Step count Calories Pages written Time on task etc... Now that you have your baseline, make a small, tiny, itty bitty increase to that number and set that for your goal for this week. For me, my goals for this month are focused almost exclusively on health…
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Year End Audit
30 Days Till...
You have 30 days to: Learn how to do a push up Lean how to do a pull up Start a blog Start a YouTube channel Start a podcast Run a mile Perfect the chocolate chip cookie Find the best lasagna recipe Find your signature dish Cement self prioritization habits Learn a new skill for work Start a garden Walk every single day Spend time feeding your brain daily (reading) …
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How to Become Something New
Want to hear the magical formula? If I want to be x then I need to y Here's how it works, If I want to be a blogger then I need to: create a blog, write blog posts, I might create a business plan, I might learn about blog networking, how to advertise, how to cross post, how to entice sponsorships, etc... If I want to be a runner then I need to …
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Manufactured Motivation
Haven't I written about this before? Why, yes I have here and here . For those that don't remember, don't want to read the previous articles, or whatever, manufactured motivation is engineered motivation. Motivation is skill that can be developed. One that can assist with motivation is by using deliberate markers in our life. I've mentioned th…
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How to Become
When you think of your future you, who are you? What are you doing? What does it feel like being this best you? What are your priorities? We talked about this a bit in my last post. Who do you intent to be? What are your intentions? Now, looking specifically at your habits and routines. Do they support your intentions? Are they the best way to achieve those in…
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Feeling Lost?
"John Spencer Smith, 1769-1845" by Provenance Online Project CC0 1.0 If you are feeling lost, finding it difficult to find traction in your life, or struggling to create your goals for this year, try this exercise. Heck, do it as a time capsule thing for no other reason than doing it. Write a letter about how you've improved your life from your b…
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Love
For Today: Be
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. BY ROBERT HERRICK Reduce distractions : you cannot stop and gather the rosebuds with your nose stuck in your phone. Duh. We get tired of hearing it. We get tired of telling ourselves this. But then we get the itch and the twitch and we for…
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How to achieve Consistency
Today can be your Day 1. Day 1 of push-ups. Day 1 of meditation. Day 1 of green smoothies. Day 1 of living with less. Day 1 of positive self-talk. Day 1 of moving your body. Day 1 of enriching your mind. Day 1 of sobriety. Day 1 of self-prioritization. What's your Day 1 going to be?
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3 Days To Smash Those Goals
The single most important thing you can possess when turning goals into reality is consistency. It's not perfection. It's not luck. It's having the strength and courage to show up over and over again. The balls to get up over and over again. Baby steps when needed and giant leaps when the energy is there. That's all. Progress over perfection.…
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Stretch Goals
"Morning stretch" by Lottie's pets & stuff is licensed under CC0 1.0 As you consider new goals, either for 2021, the week, the month, etc... consider turning them into stretch goals. Stretch goals are to stretch you. Not necessarily achievable. How can you tell if it's a stretch goal? Can you currently map out how to achieve the goal?…
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Wholeness
Taking a Break?
"Taking a Break" by Ian Livesey is licensed under CC PDM 1.0 Are you considering taking a break? Are you currently on break? I took a break. And I learned a lesson. I can't take a break from certain things. I can change focus or change the activity, but I can't take a break. I took a break from my diet and my brain heard that I was taking a…
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