• The law of Forced Efficiency says that "There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."

This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.

• Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on.

• Refuse to complain about your problems. Keep them to yourself. As speaker-humorist Ed Foreman says, "You should never share your problems with others because 80 percent of people don't care about them anyway, and the other 20 percent are kind of glad that you've got them in the first...

• Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. The bigger your goals and the clearer they are, the more excited you become about achieving them. The more you think about your goals, the greater becomes your inner drive and desire to accomplish them.