Your ability to select your most important task, to begin it, and then to concentrate on it single-mindedly until it is complete is the key to high levels of performance and personal productivity – Eat That Frog
Commitment is a personal promise that you make to yourself. Keeping your promises to others builds strong relationships, and keeping promises to yourself builds character, esteem, and success – The 12 Week Year
First thing you want to remember with a mentor is that it doesn’t need to take a lot of their time. The best advice ever gotten is in short clips, having lunch or breakfast with somebody, just telling them what you’re working on and asking their advice. You will be amazed how successful businesspeople are willing to be mentors to people when it’s not taking a lot of time – The Compound Effect
One of the keys to high levels of performance and productivity is to make every minute count. Use travel and transition times, what are often called “gifts of time,” to complete small chunks of larger tasks – Eat That Frog
Have the courage to assess each week and don’t back down, even when you have a disappointing week – The 12 Week Year
At the end of the day, the only accountability that truly exists is self- accountability – The 12 Week Year
Increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle— if you get that one thing, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career – How to Win Friends and Influence People
To be effective you will want to focus on the things that you can control – The 12 Week Year
Use the positive side of this emotional osmosis to advantage. If, for example, you are miserly by nature, you will never go beyond a certain limit; only generous souls attain greatness. Associate with the generous, then, and they will infect you, opening up everything that is tight and restricted in you – The 48 Laws of Power-Profile Books
Try honestly to see things from the other person’s point of view – How to Win Friends and Influence People
Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful – The 48 Laws of Power
The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure path to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely – How to Win Friends and Influence People
The Question you should ask is, “What is the most valuable use of my time right now?” – Eat That Frog
When you see several steps ahead, and plan your moves all the way to the end, you will no longer be tempted by emotion or by the desire to improvise. Your clarity will rid you of the anxiety and vagueness that are the primary reasons why so many fail to conclude their actions successfully. You see the ending and you tolerate no deviation – The 48 Laws of Power
Perhaps the reason people still have so much to do at the end of the day is precisely because they do not get enough sleep at night – Why We Sleep
To create new results you will have to be willing to pass through fear, uncertainty, and discomfort, and ultimately create new and more productive habits – The 12 Week Year
Learn to control this propensity to blab, for its effect is often the opposite of what you expected – The 48 Laws of Power
Real and lasting success requires work— and lots of it! – The Compound Effect
It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you through your actions, without saying a word. Demonstrate, do not explicate – The 48 Laws of Power
Remember, what you do first thing in the morning matters far more than you think. Just one tiny decision can have a dramatic effect on your day’s productivity – Dopamine Detox
First, plan each day in advance, select your most important task, and then start on that task first thing, before you do anything else. Second, work nonstop for ninety minutes with no diversion or distraction, and then give yourself a fifteen-minute break. Third, start again and work another ninety minutes flat out. Finally, after this three-hour work period, you can then reward yourself with a shot of dopamine by checking your e-mail – Eat That Frog
You can make all the excuses you want; the world doesn’t care. As harsh as that sounds, it’s the truth. Oh, you may from time to time get a little sympathy, and maybe if you’re really lucky a free beer, but that’s about it. Giving away your power will never create the success you long for. Resolve right now to never again let excuses get in the way of you achieving your goals – The 12 Week Year
You get up. You do it— no argument – The Compound Effect
It is the power of being able to overcome the natural human tendency to react to things as they happen, and instead to train oneself to step back, imagining the larger things taking shape beyond one’s immediate vision – The 48 Laws of Power
Review your work list right now and put an A, B, C, D, or E next to each task or activity. Select your A-1 job or project and begin on it immediately. Discipline yourself to do nothing else until this one job is complete – Eat That Frog
The more you are in contact with others, the more graceful and at ease you become. Isolation, on the other hand, engenders an awkwardness in your gestures, and leads to further isolation, as people start avoiding you – The 48 Laws of Power
Self-Discipline Is the Key Elbert Hubbard defined self-discipline as “the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.” – Eat That Frog
Remember that name and call it easily, and you have paid a subtle and very effective compliment. But forget it or misspell it— and you have placed yourself at a sharp disadvantage – How to Win Friends and Influence People
The first law of success is concentration— to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left – Eat That Frog
Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel – Eat That Frog
Every minute that you spend on an E task is time taken away from an A task or activity that can make a real difference in your life – Eat That Frog
If you’ve scheduled a tactic to be completed that day, don’t go home/stop until it is done – The 12 Week Year
The challenge is to somehow stay in the frame of mind that allows me to remember that the little things done today matter – The 12 Week Year
Before starting on anything, you should always ask yourself, “What are the potential consequences of doing or not doing this task?” – Eat That Frog
Be a Source of Pleasure. This is critical. It is an obvious law of human nature that we will flee what is unpleasant and distasteful, while charm and the promise of delight will draw us like moths to a flame – The 48 Laws of Power
If you find it seriously difficult to abstain for those thirty days, you may have found a habit worth cutting out of your life – The Compound Effect
“Cynics never win,” said rich dad. “Unchecked doubt and fear creates a cynic.” “Cynics criticize, and winners analyze” – Rich Dad Poor Dad
A show of interest, as with every other principle of human relations, must be sincere. It must pay off not only for the person showing the interest, but for the person receiving the attention – How to Win Friends and Influence People
The second thinking shift is to focus more on the actions than the results – The 12 Week Year
“God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days.” Why should you and I? – How to Win Friends and Influence People
Once we accept that our actions have an impact on the outcome then, and only then, are we truly empowered to create the results we desire – The 12 Week Year
The key to the success of the method of working in specific time segments is for you to plan your day in advance and schedule a fixed time period for a particular activity or task – Eat That Frog
Stop doing what you’re doing. In other words, take a break and assess what is working and what is not working. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Stop doing what is not working, and look for something new – Rich Dad Poor Dad
Each time you stop working, you break the cycle and move back along the curve to where every part of the task is more difficult and time consuming – Eat That Frog
Your “reference group” determines as much as 95 percent of your success or failure in life – The Compound Effect
Impatience makes you look weak – The 48 Laws of Power
Continually review your duties and responsibilities to identify time-consuming tasks and activities that you can abandon with no real loss. This is an ongoing responsibility for you that never ends – Eat That Frog
Powerful people judge everything by what it costs, not just in money but in time, dignity, and peace of mind – The 48 Laws of Power
Once you start tracking your life, your attention will be focused on the smallest things you’re doing right, as well as the smallest things you’re doing wrong. And when you choose to make even the smallest course corrections consistently, over time, you’ll begin to see amazing results – The Compound Effect
Self-interest is the lever that will move people. Once you make them see how you can in some way meet their needs or advance their cause, their resistance to your requests for help will magically fall away – The 48 Laws of Power
The way to develop self-confidence, he said, is to do the thing you fear to do and get a record of successful experiences behind you – How to Win Friends and Influence People
No, watching motivational videos all day long won’t help you reach your goals. But, performing daily consistent actions, sustained over a long period of time will. Staying calm and focusing on the one task in front of you every day will – Dopamine Detox
Whatever I want in life, I’ve found that the best way to get it is to focus my energy on giving to others – The Compound Effect
You yourself must learn to master your emotions, and never to be influenced by anger – The 48 Laws of Power
Who opens his mouth too much and puts himself at the mercy of the listener – The 48 Laws of Power
Very modest reductions in sleep amount within an individual, perhaps twenty- to sixty-minute differences between an employee who is honest, creative, innovate, collaborative, and productive and one who is not – Why We Sleep
For you to do something new, you must complete or stop doing something old – Eat That Frog
When you start your day with a few shots of dopamine triggered by your e-mail or IM bell going off, you find it extremely difficult to pay close attention to your important tasks for the rest of the day – Eat That Frog
If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness – The 48 Laws of Power
He found that sleep deprivation will diminish one form of these macrophages, called M1 cells, that otherwise help combat cancer. Yet sleep deprivation conversely boosts levels of an alternative form of macrophages, called M2 cells, which promote cancer growth. This combination helped explain the devastating carcinogenic effects seen in the mice when their sleep was disturbed – Why We Sleep
“If there is any one secret of success,” said Henry Ford, “it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.” How to Win Friends and Influence People
Losing your temper, you always make unfair and exaggerated accusations. A few such tirades and people are counting the days until you are gone – The 48 Laws of Power
Begin by clearing off your desk or workspace so that you have only one task in front of you. If necessary, put everything else on the floor or on a table behind you – Eat That Frog
The world is full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking, so the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage – How to Win Friends and Influence People
The powerful responses to niggling, petty annoyances and irritations are contempt and disdain. Never show that something has affected you, or that you are offended— that only shows you have acknowledged a problem. Contempt is a dish that is best served cold and without affectation – The 48 Laws of Power
Relax before bed. Don’t overschedule your day so that no time is left for unwinding. A relaxing activity, such as reading or listening to music, should be part of your bedtime ritual – Why We Sleep
