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21 " What are your three most important business or career goals right now? What are your three most important family or relationship goals right now? What are your three most important financial goals right now? What are your three most important health goals right now? What are your three most important personal and professional development goals right now? What are your three most important social and community goals right now? What are your three biggest problems or concerns in life right now? "
― Brian Tracy , Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
22 " Say no to anything that is not a high-value use of your time and your life. "
23 " If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long. "
24 " Refuse to complain about your problems. Keep them to yourself. As speaker-humorist Ed Foreman says, "You should never share your problems with others because 80 percent of people don't care about them anyway, and the other 20 percent are kind of glad that you've got them in the first place. "
25 " When everything is laid out neatly and in sequence, you will feel much more like getting on with the job. "
26 " the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not. "
27 " What one skill, if I developed and did it in an excellent fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on my career? "
28 " Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse. "
29 " Refuse to allow a weakness or a lack of ability in any area to hold you back. Everything is learnable. And what others have learned, you can learn as well. "
30 " Practice "zero-based thinking" in every part of your life. Ask yourself continually, "If I were not doing this already, knowing what I now know, would I start doing it again today?" If it is something you would not start again today, knowing what you now know, it is a prime candidate for abandonment or creative procrastination. "
31 " 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. "
32 " Willing to delay gratification and make sacrifices in the short term so you can enjoy far greater rewards in the long term "
33 " Everything is learnable, and what others have learned, you can learn as well. "
34 " For you to achieve any kind of success, execution is everything. "
35 " Do anything, but get started. "
36 " إذا كانَ عليكَ أنْ تأكلَ ضفدعةً حيَّةً ، لنْ يجديَ نفعًا أنْ تجلسَ وَ تنظرَ إليهَا طويلًا "
― برايان تريسي , Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
37 " إنَّ عادةَ ترتيبِ الأولويات ، وَ التغلّب على المماطلة ، وَ الوصول إلى أهم واجباتك هي مهارة ذهنية بدنية ؛ لذا فإننا تستطيع تعلّم هذه العادة عن طريق الممارسة وَ التكرار ، مرّاتٍ وَ مرّاتٍ أخرى ، إلىٰ أن تثبتَ في عقلِنا اللَّاوعي وَ تصبحَ جزءًا دائمًا مِن سلوكنا. وَ عندما تصبحُ عادةً تصبحُ آليةً وَ سهلة "
38 " تحتاج إلى مفاتيحِ ثلاثِ خصائصٍ لتطورِّ العاداتِ وَ تُركِّز عليها ، وَ كلُّها سهلةُ التعلّم ِ، هذه الخصائص هي : القرار ، وَ الانضباط وَ التصميم "
39 " إنَّ صورتَك الذاتيّة ، وَ طريقةَ نظرتك إلى نفسِك مِن الداخل تحدِّد وَ بشكلٍ كبير إنجازَك مِن الخارج "
40 " إنَّ المفتاحَ للوصول إلىٰ أعلىٰ مستويات الإنجاز وَ الإنتاج هو تطويرٌ مطوَّل لعادة مزاولة الواجب المهمّ كل صباح ، وَ عليك أن تطوِّرَ الروتين في "أكلِ ضفدعتك" قبل أن تفعل أيَّ شيءٍ آخر وَ مِن غيرِ أن تسرفَ في التفكير "