This document discusses habits for personal success, including making decisions, working with urgency, planning activities in advance, focusing work hours on the most important tasks, recognizing when circumstances are slowly changing like a frog in boiling water, and prioritizing the most important task of the day. It encourages the reader to decide what they could do differently at work starting today to ensure success.

1. Habits for personal
success (with Frogs).
Patrick Hayes
@PatrickSHayes

2. Contents
 Introduction and Overview
 Habits
 Review
 Open discussion

3. 1. Decision making
Every positive change begins with a clear decision.
Make a decision and get started.
Decisiveness is developed through practice and repetition.

4. 2. Need for speed
Pick up the tempo, do the job quickly and well.
Work in real time, don’t delay.
Develop a sense of urgency.

5. 3. Planning
Essential for high performance and success.
6 P’s: Prior proper planning prevents poor performance.
Plan activities in advance and make lists.

6. 4. Work better hours
There is never enough time to do everything, but always time to
do the most important things.
What is the most valuable use of my time right now?
Focus on results.

7. 5. Are you a ‘Frog in a pot’?
If a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out. If it is placed in
cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and
will be cooked to death.

8. 6. Eat that Frog
If all you have to do all day is eat a frog, there is no point waiting
around looking at it, just eat it.

9. Review
1.Decision Making – Make one.
2.Need for speed – Urgency.
3.Planning – 6 P’s.
4.Work better hours – Results.
5.Frog in the pot – Working life.
6.Eat that frog – what's #1?

10. Open Discussion
Starting Today, what could
you do differently at work to
ensure personal success?