Short_Book_Review-Eat_That_Frog_by_Brian_Tracy
00:00:00.000 | Sweet Hop is an online marketplace curating the best in premium seating at stadiums, arenas,
00:00:05.000 | and amphitheaters nationwide. With Sweet Hop's 100% ticket guarantee, no hidden fees, and
00:00:10.500 | the personal high-level service you expect with a premium purchase, you can relax knowing
00:00:15.000 | you'll receive the luxury experience you deserve. Visit SweetHop.com today to book your premium
00:00:20.340 | tickets to your favorite teams, artists, and all the must-see live events to Sweet Hop
00:00:25.000 | around LA. It's more than just a ticket.
00:00:31.000 | Hey Radicals, this is Joshua Sheets, host of the Radical Personal Finance Podcast, here
00:00:36.320 | today with a book review for Brian Tracy's book, Eat That Frog. 21 great ways to stop
00:00:43.320 | procrastinating and get more done in less time. So, Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy. This
00:00:49.880 | book for me is a five-star book review. I love this book. Now let me tell you why so
00:00:54.480 | you can decide if it's right and useful for you. But I absolutely love this book. Of all
00:00:59.080 | of the productivity books that I have read, this one is one of the most pithy, concise,
00:01:05.240 | and yet comprehensive books. It's a great comprehensive overview that touches on each
00:01:12.240 | of the key important elements of productivity, but doesn't go too deep. And so for me, it's
00:01:18.320 | really, really useful as a reminder book, as a review book. There are many great books
00:01:23.280 | on productivity that go deep on the philosophy or on the science or on a specific tool. A
00:01:29.880 | lot of them go shallow and just talk about the value of a certain tool, a certain approach.
00:01:34.740 | But there are very few books that give you a comprehensive overview and this is a great
00:01:38.440 | one to do that. Brian Tracy goes through 21 specific ideas and he starts with the big
00:01:44.940 | picture ideas of concept and of mindset, talking about how to make sure that you're doing the
00:01:50.160 | right things. The biggest waste of time is to do something well that doesn't need to
00:01:54.160 | be done at all. Then focusing in on the highest priority things, how to run all the things
00:02:00.120 | that you do out of your list of goals to make sure that you're doing the right things. And
00:02:04.400 | then he ultimately goes down to some simple mindset tricks, some simple ways to make sure
00:02:08.720 | that you can trick yourself into being more focused and more productive. For me, the major
00:02:12.960 | benefit of this book is as a constant review and refresher on productivity. If you think
00:02:17.840 | about it, the key for all of us is to be able to produce more valuable work during the time
00:02:23.560 | that we work. I learned from Brian Tracy the phrase, "It's quality of time at work that
00:02:30.560 | matters and quantity of time at home." And so his whole focus is to say, "During the
00:02:36.400 | time that you work, how can you make sure that you get the highest quality of output
00:02:42.600 | and the most of it so that you can spend more time, more quantity of time at home doing
00:02:46.840 | the things that you want to do with your family and being present with them?" So the focus
00:02:51.720 | of productivity is remember, we all get paid based upon the volume, the quality, and the
00:02:56.480 | value of the work that we produce. So in order to get paid more, we always need to increase
00:03:01.180 | our output. We need to increase the value of that output and we need to increase the
00:03:07.040 | quantity of the output. So anything we can do to improve our working ability is going
00:03:11.320 | to be helping us. I don't know about you, but I don't find for me that I'm just some
00:03:15.400 | automatic productivity wizard all the time. I find plenty of challenges that I'm never
00:03:22.400 | perfect. So the way I like to use Brian Tracy's book, "Eat That Frog" is as a continual
00:03:28.040 | review. It's a very short audio book, couple hours long, two and a half hours. I like to
00:03:32.080 | listen to it at 2x speed. So by listening to it at 2x speed, that means that I can listen
00:03:36.720 | to it in about an hour and a half. And so once a month, if I take an hour and a half
00:03:40.580 | and I listen to the book, then I'll pick up on a little specific tip that I'm not doing
00:03:45.840 | well. Or I'll pick up on something that's important and meaningful to me today that
00:03:50.640 | another time I probably wouldn't have recognized. And that's the primary value. This is one
00:03:55.120 | that I think is a must own. You definitely want to own this audio. You want to keep it
00:03:59.440 | on your phone or you want to own the book and you want to just have it regularly there
00:04:03.360 | so that it's a regular part of your routine, whether it's once a month or every couple
00:04:07.720 | of months, every six months. You go through it again and look for the next thing that
00:04:12.120 | you can focus on. Because depending on where you are, it's going to be a little different.
00:04:16.040 | Are you prioritizing effectively? Are you only working on the things that need to be
00:04:19.120 | done? Do you have good systems? Do you need to upgrade your tools? Whatever it is that's
00:04:23.200 | appropriate to you, you'll be able to pick that up as you consistently review this. So
00:04:28.360 | the book is Brian Tracy's "Eat That Frog." For me, it's a five star. Definitely a must
00:04:33.040 | buy. Don't expect it to be long. Don't expect it to be in depth. But if you like the concept
00:04:37.240 | of that overview, this will be a useful book for you. I'll put a link to my Audible affiliate
00:04:43.560 | link in the description box. So if you'd like to sign up for Audible, you get two free e-books
00:04:48.560 | with that. This is again, I think this is definitely a must own book. So this would
00:04:52.200 | be a good one to buy, an audio book version, or I'll put a link to the paper book or the
00:04:56.560 | Kindle book on Amazon as well in the description. Thanks for watching.