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Happy Thursday folks!

Here is my favorite passage of the week, two quotes and book of the week with two important lessons to ponder on:

Passage of the Week:

Author and Journalist Michael A. Singer on the power of will:

Two Quotes:

Book of the Week with 2 Important Lessons:

The book of the week is Eat That Frog: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy.

Procrastination is the thief of time, seize it with action and purpose.

In this book, Brian details 21 practical and doable steps that will help you stop procrastinating and get more of the important tasks done: today. An easy read with huge impact.

There’s an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that it’s probably the worst thing you’ll do all day. Using ‘eat that frog’ as a metaphor for tackling the most challenging task of your day, the one you are most likely to procrastinate on, but also probably the one that can have the greatest positive impact on your life; Eat That Frog shows you how to zero in on these critical tasks and organize your day. You’ll not only get more done faster, but get the right things done.

Here are two important lessons from the book:

1) The Three Ds of New Habit Formation:

Your success in life and work will be determined by the kind of habits that you develop over time. The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination, and getting on with your most important task is a mental and physical skill. You need three key qualities to develop the habits of focus and concentration, which are all learnable. They are decision, discipline, and determination.

First, make a decision to develop the habit of task completion. Second, discipline yourself to practice the principles you are about to learn over and over until they become automatic. And third, back everything you do with determination until the habit is locked in and becomes a permanent part of your personality.

No shortcuts. You might know the story of the man who stops a musician on a street in New York and asks how he can get to Carnegie Hall. The musician replies, “Practice, man, practice.” Practice is the key to mastering any skill. With practice, you can learn any behavior or develop any habit that you consider either desirable or necessary.

2) Upgrade Your Key Skills:

“No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential that you can ever develop in a lifetime,” said James T. McCay. Upgrading your skills is one of the most important personal productivity principles of all. Learn what you need to learn so that you can do your work in an excellent fashion.

Identify the most important things you do and then make a plan to continually upgrade your skills in those areas. Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field. Refuse to allow a weakness or a lack of ability in any area to hold you back. Everything is learnable. And what others have learned, you can learn as well.

The more you learn and know, the more confident and motivated you feel. The better you become, the more capable you will be of doing even more in your field. The more you learn, the more you can learn. Just as you can build physical muscles through physical exercises, you can build your mental muscles with mental exercises. And there is no limit of how far or how fast you can advance except for the limits you place on your imagination.

Books I am currently reading:

Katabasis by R. F. Kuang. Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul, perhaps at the cost of their own.

Mark Twain by Ron Chernow. Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain. Such a well written biography.