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Title: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy ISBN: 1-57675-198-8 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.26 (35 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: A waste of money; a waste of time
Comment: I don't write a lot of reviews, and I depend on Amazon reviews to help me have honest, non-biased opinion to help me spend my money. In that spirit, let me say that "Eat That Frog" is a complete waste of money. There are a number of good books on procrastination out there, but this book is not one of them.
What ideas this book may contain can all be gleaned from the reviews already written here on Amazon. There's actually more substance in some of them than in the entire book itself. I found myself shaking my head and angrily turning every page, frustrated that Tracy could get away with publishing a book so completely devoid of content. Fortunately this book is short; it deserves to be a pamphlet. A very short pamphlet.
That's not completely fair. The book has content, but it's either embarrassingly common sense, or startlingly unoriginal. Add in the fact that Tracy writes like, well, a second-tier motivational speaker and there you've got it. For example, here's a sentence from chapter 9, "Refuse to allow a weakness or lack of ability in any area to hold you back." Does that motivate you? Does it help you in any way? Me neither. Fill 113 pages with large type and a lot of white space with this empty, thoughtless, and above all condescending blather and you, too, can write a motivational book.
Oh, and don't forget to fill ten pages with blatant self-promotion ("Double your income, Double your time off!") just to beef up the page count and make the book a little thicker.
Perhaps you really are a desperate procrastinator (like myself) who's looking for someone to help him out of his overwhelmingly negative habits. You want to find a book to help? I'll recommend two: Rita Emmett's "The Procrastinator's Handbook", which, while not original is at least honest and readable, which is more than you can say about "Frog."
Perhaps on the top of the list is David Allen's "Getting Things Done" which is the absolutely best, most practical, applicable, and sustainable system for overcoming procrastination I've ever read. And it's not even a book specifically about procrastination. Yet it works. Magic. Based on the advice in "Getting Things Done" I've finished my bachelor's degree -- 14 years after I first enrolled in college.
The short of it: don't waste a nickel on "Eat That Frog", and spend you money on one of many much, much, much better books. You deserve it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Stop Procrastinating!
Comment: 'Eat That Frog', by Brian Tracy, is an excellent book on ceasing procrastination and on time management. While I'm not personally a procrastinator, and this problem seems to have a straightforward solution (it does -- 'stop worrying about it and just do it'), many otherwise intelligent people are plagued with this problem to some degree. In this short (113 pages in hardback), easy-to-read book, Mr. Tracy urges his readers to tackle the least-desirable, hardest task first, rather than putting it off in favor of completing easy, less important tasks. (That what the title refers to -- if one has to eat an ugly frog, he should do it immediately, so that he doesn't spend all day worrying about it.) He then goes through the typical time management strategies of Pareto and quad-based prioritization, division of large tasks into smaller component tasks, etc.
Fortunately, since it's short and easy-to-read (should take maybe an hour or so), even the worst procrastinator will probably get around to reading it.
Rating: 5
Summary: I ate the frog... and I liked it!
Comment: I've had this frog sitting on my nightstand for several weeks now. It wasn't a particularly gross looking frog, it's just that I had too many other frogs that I needed to eat. Well, I finally sat down and ate it up...and enjoyed every minute of it! Yum! I now know that I will be eating many more frogs, even the really disgusting ones. I know how to sort them out so that I don't have to overeat, or eat the wrong ones first. (Can't have dessert before the main course!) I would recommend eating this frog to anyone who wants to be more successful than they already are. If you're content in your situation, then don't bother because you won't get the point.
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Title: Goals: How to Get Everything You Want-Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible by Brian Tracy ISBN: 1576752356 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals by Brian Tracy ISBN: 0814471293 Publisher: AMACOM Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement by Brian Tracy ISBN: 0471448583 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 08 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: MAXIMUM ACHIEVEMENT: STRATEGIES AND SKILLS THAT WILL UNLOCK YOUR HIDDEN POWERS TO SUCCEED by Brian Tracy ISBN: 0684803313 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 19 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Procrastinator's Handbook: Mastering the Art of Doing It Now by Rita Emmett ISBN: 0802775985 Publisher: Walker & Co Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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