Time Management Blog | Eat That Frog!

2026-07-10

Leverage Your Special Talents

The work you do easily and well is where your greatest results live. Point your best hours at it.

2026-06-19

Upgrade Your Key Skills

The better you are at your core tasks, the less you procrastinate on them. Continuous learning is a productivity tool.

2026-06-05

One Step at a Time: Crossing Your Desert of Big Tasks

You can accomplish the biggest task if you simply complete it one step at a time.

2026-05-22

Prepare Like a Chef: Everything in Place Before You Begin

Assemble everything you need before you sit down, and starting becomes almost effortless.

2026-05-08

Obey the Law of Three

Three core tasks contribute most of the value in your work. Find them, and protect time for them relentlessly.

2026-04-24

Score Your Key Result Areas and Fix the Weakest

Identify the handful of results you're truly responsible for, and score yourself honestly on each.

2026-04-10

Use the ABCDE Method Continually

Before you begin, organise your list by true priority, and never touch a B while an A is undone.

2026-03-20

Practise Creative Procrastination

You can't do everything, so you must procrastinate on purpose, deliberately, on the low-value tasks.

2026-03-06

Consider the Consequences Before You Act

The most important tasks are the ones with the most serious long-term consequences. Think long-term to decide short-term.

2026-02-20

The 80/20 Rule: Do Fewer Things, Get Far More Done

Twenty percent of your activities account for eighty percent of your results. Resist the pull of the trivial many.

2026-02-06

Plan the Night Before: The 10/90 Rule in Practice

Every minute spent planning saves as many as ten minutes in execution. The night before is the best time to plan.

2026-01-23

Think on Paper: The Power of Written Goals

Only about three percent of adults have clear, written goals, and they accomplish far more than everyone else combined.

2026-01-09

Set the Table: Why Clarity Beats Busyness

Clarity is the most important concept in personal productivity. Before you eat any frog, you must know which one it is.

2025-12-30

Make Eating Frogs a Way of Life

The techniques only work when they become habits. Practise until productivity is simply who you are.

2025-12-28

Persistence Is Self-Discipline in Action

Every time you push through resistance, the habit of eating frogs grows a little stronger.

2025-12-24

Visualise Yourself as a High Performer

See yourself as the person who eats frogs, and behaviour follows the self-image.

2025-12-18

What Is the Most Valuable Use of My Time Right Now?

One question, asked honestly and often, is the closest thing to a productivity superpower.

2025-12-17

The Three Questions for Peak Productivity

Three questions, asked all day, keep you anchored to your highest-value work.

2025-12-11

Eliminate the Zero-Value Activities

Some tasks don't need delegating, they need deleting. Have the courage to stop doing them.

2025-12-09

Delegate Everything You Can

Every task someone else can do frees you for the tasks only you can do.

2025-12-07

Reflect and Review Each Evening

A few honest minutes at day's end plan tomorrow and compound your learning.

2025-12-06

Resist the Temptation to Clear Small Things First

Clearing the little stuff feels productive and quietly guarantees the big stuff never gets done.

2025-11-28

Eat the Frog First Thing

The first hour sets the tone for the day. Spend it on the task that matters most.

2025-11-24

Batch Similar Tasks Together

Doing like with like, all your calls, all your emails, in one pass, multiplies your speed.

2025-11-22

Reduce the Distractions That Eat Your Day

Most lost productivity isn't dramatic, it's a thousand tiny interruptions. Close the doors.

2025-11-19

Create Large Chunks of Time

Important work needs uninterrupted stretches. Schedule them like the appointments they are.

2025-11-16

Break the Goal Into Manageable Pieces

Big goals intimidate; small steps invite action. Slice until the first step is easy.

2025-11-10

Set Personal Deadlines

A goal without a deadline is just a wish. Give every important task a date and defend it.

2025-11-09

The Discipline of 100% Completion

A task that's ninety percent done isn't done. Completion is the habit that changes everything.

2025-11-04

Enter the Flow State

Move fast on important work and you trigger a state where thinking sharpens and work speeds up on its own.

2025-10-29

Develop a Sense of Urgency

A bias toward action separates the productive from the merely busy. Move fast, start now.

2025-10-27

Stop the Fragmentation of Attention

A day chopped into fragments produces fragmentary work. Assemble your hours into blocks.

2025-10-21

Focus Your Attention: Single-Handle Every Task

Switching tasks can cost most of your productivity. Do one thing, and stay until it's done.

2025-10-20

Switch Off to Switch On

Regularly disconnecting isn't laziness; it's how deep work becomes possible at all.

2025-10-18

Technology Is a Wonderful Servant

Used deliberately, the same tools that distract you can multiply your best work.

2025-10-16

Technology Is a Terrible Master

The devices meant to serve you will run your day if you let them. Take back the controls.

2025-10-10

Optimism and the Power of Self-Talk

The most productive people keep their inner voice firmly on their own side.

2025-10-08

Motivate Yourself Into Action

Be your own cheerleader. The way you talk to yourself decides whether you start.

2025-10-03

Guard Your Peak-Energy Hours

Match your most important task to the hours when you're sharpest, and defend them fiercely.

2025-10-02

Maximise Your Personal Powers

Energy, not just time, determines what you accomplish. Guard the source.

2025-09-28

Be Your Own Boss: Lead the Field

Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else would dare set for you.

2025-09-27

Put the Pressure on Yourself

Don't wait to be told. The people who get ahead act as if someone is watching, because they're watching themselves.

2025-09-21

Most Constraints Are Internal

We love to blame the outside world, but the real bottleneck is usually much closer to home.

2025-09-16

Identify Your Key Constraints

Between you and your goal sits a limiting step. Find it, and you speed up everything.

2025-09-10

Read Every Day: The Compounding Skill Habit

An hour of learning a day, applied to your key skills, will move you to the top of your field.

2025-09-09

Upgrade Your Key Skills Continually

The better you get at your most important tasks, the easier they are to start, and finish.

2025-09-06

The Salami-Slice Method for Big Tasks

Lay the task out in thin slices and eat one slice at a time. The whole disappears before you notice.

2025-09-04

Take It One Oil Barrel at a Time

You can accomplish the biggest task if you just take it one step at a time, as far as you can see.

2025-08-27

Clear the Workspace, Clear the Mind

A clean desk isn't vanity, it's a productivity tool that removes a dozen small excuses to stall.

2025-08-25

Set Up Your Workspace Before You Start

Everything you need within reach before you start. Preparation turns a daunting task into a smooth one.

2025-08-21

The Big Three and Quality of Life

Working on your three highest-value tasks is also the path to balance, not the enemy of it.

2025-08-19

The Law of Three: Find Your Big Three

Just three tasks account for most of the value you contribute. Discover them and protect them.

2025-08-12

Score Yourself on Every Key Result Area

Your weakest key skill often sets the height of your income and success. Find it and raise it.

2025-08-11

Focus on Your Key Result Areas

Identify the handful of results you're truly responsible for, and pour your energy there.

2025-08-09

The Consequences Test for Priorities

When two tasks compete, ask which one carries the bigger consequence. That's your A-1.

2025-08-06

The ABCDE Method for Ruthless Prioritisation

Label every task A, B, C, D or E and never work on a B while an A is undone.

2025-07-29

Learning to Say No to Low-Value Work

Every yes to something trivial is a no to something that matters. Protect your best hours ruthlessly.

2025-07-28

Practice Creative Procrastination

You can't do everything, so procrastinate on purpose, deliberately on the low-value tasks.