Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.

Think of this as a test. Treat it like a personal challenge.

Continually remind yourself

especially for making the most important contribution that is expected of you.

the most important decisions you make each day is what you will do immediately and what you will do later, if you do it at all.

You must develop the routine of “eating your frog” before you do anything else and without taking too much time to think about it.

The key to reaching high levels of performance and productivity is to develop the lifelong habit of tackling your major task first thing each morning.

If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long.

Simply put, some people are doing better than others because they do things differently and they do the right things right. Especially, successful, happy, prosperous people use their time far, far better than the average person.