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Take Action Immediately
The key to making this ABCDE Method work is for you to now
discipline yourself to start immediately on your "A-1" task and then
stay at it until it is complete. Use your willpower to get going and
stay going on this one job, the most important single task you could

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possibly be doing. Eat the whole frog and don’t stop until it’s
finished completely.
Your ability to think through, analyze your work list and determine
your "A-1" task is the springboard to higher levels of
accomplishment, and greater self-esteem, self-respect and personal
pride.
When you develop the habit of concentrating on your "A-1," most
important activity, on eating your frog, you will start getting more
done than any two or three people around you.
Eat That Frog!
1. Review you 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.
2. Practice this ABCDE Method every day and on every work or
project list, before you begin work, for the next month. By that time,
you will have developed the habit of setting and working on your
highest priority tasks and your future will be assured!

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CHAPTER 7
Focus On Key Result Areas
“When every physical and mental resource is focused,
one’s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously
.”
Norman Vincent Peale
Why are you on the payroll? This is one of the most important
questions you ever ask and answer, over and over again, throughout
your career.
As it happens, most people are not sure exactly 
why
they are on the
payroll. But if you are not crystal clear about why it is that you are on
the payroll and what results you have been hired to accomplish, it is
very hard for you to perform at your best, get paid more and
promoted faster.
In its simplest terms, you have been hired to get specific 
results
. A
wage or a salary is a payment for a specific quality and quantity of
work that can be combined with the work of others to create a
product or service that customers are willing to pay for.
Each job can be broken down into about five to seven key result
areas, seldom more. These are the results that you absolutely,
positively have to get to fulfill your responsibilities and make your
maximum contribution to your organization.

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Key result areas are similar to the vital functions of the body, such as
blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate and brainwave activity.
An absence of any one of these vital functions leads to the death of
the organism. By the same token, your failure to perform in a critical
result area of your work can lead to the end of your job as well.