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Eating the ugly frog is the worst thing you can imagine to do on any day. The frog here stands for the most important thing that we put off doing, as it seems the most challenging one. In the list of your priorities, it is the most important thing that often gets neglected and delayed. Brian Tracy prompts us to action with his insightful methods that have stood the test of time. The sky is the limit for your success, if you have trained yourself to eat that frog first every day.

In this book you will learn how you can achieve financial independence even with minimal amounts of annual income, all through the power of compound interest. You will learn about an effective tool Tony created known as V2MOM. It is a tool that can help you focus on your key goals in life and work. Helping you to not be a mere consumer anymore, it will transform you into an investor who owns a share of the future potential.

Mark McCormack, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in American business, is widely credited as the founder of the modern-day sports marketing industry. On a handshake with Arnold Palmer and less than 1,000 dollars, he started International Management Group and, over a four-decade period, built the company into a multimillion-dollar enterprise with offices in more than 40 countries. To this day, McCormack's business classic remains a must-listen for executives and managers.

Wake up and take control of your life! This is a Summary of Tony Robbins' Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny! Tony Robbins is a best-selling author, and the nation's leader in the science of peak performance. With this book he shares his most effective strategies and techniques for mastering your emotions, your body, your relationships, your finances, and your life.

Considered one of the most inspiring books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has guided generations of readers for the last 25 years. Presidents and CEOs have kept it by their bedsides, students have underlined and studied passages from it, educators and parents have drawn inspiration from it, and individuals of all ages and occupations have used its step-by-step pathway to adapt to change and to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

This is a Summary of Vishen Lakhiani's New York Times best seller, The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed on Your Own Terms. In a unique fusion of cutting-edge ideas, personal stories, irreverence, and a brilliant teaching style, Lakhiani reveals the 10 powerful laws that form a step-by-step process that you can apply to life to shed years of struggle and elevate yourself to exceptional new heights.

By writing Into Thin Air, Krakauer may have hoped to exorcise some of his own demons and lay to rest some of the painful questions that still surround the event. He takes great pains to provide a balanced picture of the people and events he witnessed and gives due credit to the tireless and dedicated Sherpas. He also avoids blasting easy targets such as Sandy Pittman, the wealthy socialite who brought an espresso maker along on the expedition.

Transitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the biggest challenge a manager will face. While transitions offer a chance to start fresh and make needed changes in an organization, they also place leaders in a position of acute vulnerability. Missteps made during the crucial first three months in a new role can jeopardize or even derail your success.

This is a summary of David Allen's book Getting Things Done, which focuses on his innovated method of improving organizational skills, increasing productivity, completing unfinished tasks, and putting into effect new systems to decide on new tasks and also how to go about them. He encapsulates the five organizational steps required to give structure to the process. He writes about different principles ways to select the new task, talks about a threefold model that will help in deciding on the work and the steps or targets to review the task.

Peter Senge utilizes the method of systems thinking to facilitate companies to have more success. In a learning organization, a community of the total workforce is created, and the team members learn together and share their opinions. This creates thinking that is interconnected, bringing them on a similar wavelength. It promotes more openness, productivity, and communication through shared and organized learning, resulting in more progress for the team.

This is a summary of Dr. Spencer Johnson's book Who Moved My Cheese?. It takes a look at the different tools needed to deal with changes - something that all of us have encountered at some time and that makes everyone either uncomfortable, nervous, or both. Most of us are wary of change because we feel we may have no control with regard to the how or the when. As change happens either to us or due to us, the most important thing is our attitude when dealing with it.

With vital performance and career lessons and ideas for how to apply them, it is a must-listen for managers at every level. The greatest managers in the world seem to have little in common. They differ in sex, age, and race. They employ vastly different styles and focus on different goals. Yet, despite their differences, great managers share one common trait: They do not hesitate to break virtually every rule held sacred by conventional wisdom.

What if you could miraculously wake up tomorrow and any - or every - area of your life was transformed? What would be different? Would you be happier? Healthier? More successful? In better shape? Would you have more energy? Less Stress? More Money? Better relationships? Which of your problems would be solved? What if I told you that there is a not so obvious secret that is guaranteed to transform any - or literally every - area of your life faster than you ever thought possible?

This is a summary of Dr. Jason Fung's The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight. Everything you believe about how to lose weight is wrong. Weight gain and obesity are driven by hormones - in everyone - and only by understanding the effects of insulin and insulin resistance can we achieve lasting weight loss. In this absorbing and provocative book, Dr. Jason Fung sets out an original, robust theory of obesity that provides startling insights into proper nutrition.

According to Dale Carnegie, personal relationships determine one's success. The way in which you are able to connect with others serves to determine how well you succeed in life. The book describes how one can maximize one's interactions with others so that one can create strong personal, as well as professional, relationships.

The book describes two distinct systems: System One - this is an imaginary character representing the intuitive portion of the mind. System Two - this is an imaginary character representing the slow thinking processes of the mind. Despite the fact that these two systems have distinctive functions, they do work together to help people assess their surroundings and guide them during the decision-making process.

Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity. When 24-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she'd gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened?

Doctor of Natural Medicine and wellness authority Dr. Josh Axe delivers a groundbreaking, indispensable guide for understanding, diagnosing, and treating one of the most discussed yet little-understood health conditions: leaky gut syndrome.

From the author of The Power of Habit comes a fascinating book that explores the science of productivity, and why, in today's world, managing how you think - rather than what you think - can transform your life. At the core of Smarter Faster Better are eight concepts - from motivation and goal setting to focus and decision making - that explain why some people and companies get so much done.

This is a summary of Fisher, Ury, and Patton's Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. Since its original publication nearly 30 years ago, Getting to Yes has helped millions of people learn a better way to negotiate. One of the primary business texts of the modern era, it is based on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deals with all levels of negotiation and conflict resolution. Getting to Yes offers a proven, step-by-step strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict.