Frog Eating Rule No 15

Maximize Your Personal Powers

·        Know your periods of highest mental and physical energy each day – schedule your most important and demanding tasks at these times.

·        Take care of yourself physically: exercise, have a healthy diet and get adequate rest.

·        Overworking can lead to under producing.

·        You avoid overworking by planning your schedule, implementing your activities without distractions and sticking to your deadlines.

Good luck!!

Frog Eating Rule No 14

Rule #14 – Put the Pressure on Yourself:

 

·         Create imaginary deadlines- imagine that you have to leave town for two weeks and work as if you had to get all of your major tasks completed before you leave.

·         If you don’t put pressure on yourself, somebody else will and you may not like their frogs.

·         Stay in control of your activities by choosing your frogs.

·         Once you set yourself a deadline stick to it and even try to beat it.

 

Good luck!

 

Rule No 13 – Identify Your Key Constraints

·        Determine the bottlenecks or choke points, internal or external, which set the speed at which you achieve your most important goals, and focus on alleviating them.

·        What is holding you back?

·        What is keeping you from eating your frog(s)?

·        The 80/20 rule applies to your constraints: 80% of what is holding you back from achieving your goals lie with you, it’s internal! Only 20% comes from external factors like: market conditions, government, competition, and etc.

·        Why aren’t you at your goal today? Ah ha! Another frog!

Frog Eating Rule No 12

 Rule #12 – Leverage Your Talents:

 

·        Take stock of your unique talents and abilities on a regular basis.

·        Successful people know what they do well and what they most enjoy – Know what those are for you and throw your heart into them!

·        What has served you best and from where do you get y our passion?

·        Know your talents and you will unlock your personal potential.

Frog Eating Rule No 11

Rule #11 – Upgrade Your Key Skills:

 

·         Sharpen your knife (your skills)!

·         Decorated NBA coach, Pat Riley, said, “Anytime you stop striving to get better, you’re bound to get worse”

·         Be hungry to learn.

·         Strive to be better.

·         Continue to learn, with continuous action!

·         Read, take good courses, and listen to audio programs in your car.

·         Be a lifelong student of your profession.

Frog Eating Rule No 10

Rule #10 – Take it one oil barrel at a time:

·         To help cross the Sahara Desert without losing their way, the French marked the terrain’s track with black, 55 gallon oil drums every 5 kilometers (which is exactly the distance to the horizon, formed by the curvature of the earth).

·         Take it one step at a time.

·         “Your job is to go as far as you can see.  You will then see far enough to go further.

Frog Eating Rule No 9

Rule #9 – Prepare thoroughly before you begin:
 

·         Have everything you need at hand.

·         Assemble your papers, numbers, information, tools, programs, whatever you’ll need to get the job done.

·         Rather than clearing your decks, you’re clearing your desk!

·         Get comfortable then, Get Started and keep going!