Brian Tracy - Kiss That Frog!: 12 Great Ways to Turn Negatives into Positives in Your Life and Work

Brian Tracy is a professional speaker, trainer, seminar leader, and consultant and is the chairman of Brian Tracy International, a training and consulting company based in Solana Beach, California.

Brian learned his lessons the hard way. He left high school without graduating and worked as a laborer for several years. In his midtwenties he became a salesman and began his climb up the business ladder. Year by year, studying and applying every idea, method, and technique he could find, he worked his way up to become chief operating officer of a $276 million development company.

In 1981 he began teaching his success principles in talks and seminars around the country. Today, his books, audio programs, and video seminars have been translated into thirty-eight languages and are used in fifty-eight countries.

He is the bestselling author of more than fifty books, including Eat That Frog!, Goals!, Maximum Achievement, Advanced Selling Strategies, Focal Point, and The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success. He has written and produced more than five hundred audio and video learning programs that are used worldwide.

Brian is happily married and has four children. He is active in community affairs and lives in Solana Beach, California.

Christina Tracy Stein graduated with a bachelor of arts in psychology from the University of Southern California, received her masters degree in clinical psychology from Antioch University, has a Marriage and Family Therapist license from the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, is a member of both the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, and is a Certified Nutrition and Lifestyle Coach.

Prior to beginning her private practice, Christina worked at the Maple Counseling Center, Beverly Hills, California, where she participated in the Intake and Assessment, Adult Counseling, and Group Programs. She has spent more than five thousand hours with individuals, couples, and groups doing assessments, psychotherapy, and personal counseling.

With her passion for facilitating personal growth and awareness, Christina focuses on helping individuals discover their strengths and accomplish their goals, leading to a more inspiring life.

As a personal development coach, Christina works with individuals to examine all aspects of their lives and set clear goals that enable them to be more effective and successful. She directs and facilitates growth by providing insights as well as practical information and access to resources that benefit each individual.

Christina feels that individuals are capable of discovering their truth, and by aligning with that truth, they will fulfill their potential. She works collaboratively with her clients as a therapist, coach, and facilitator.

Christina has a private practice in Santa Monica, California. She is married and has three children.

We would both like to thank the incredible people at Berrett-Koehler, especially Steve Piersanti, publisher and editor, who guided and shaped this book from the original idea to the finished book, Jeevan Sivasubramaniam, for his insightful and helpful comments and additions, our initial reviewersChloe Park, Julie Pinkerton, Adryan Russ, Chris Morris, and Brita Adkinsonwhose ideas and suggestions were invaluable in shaping and improving the manuscript, and all the fine people at Berrett-Koehler whose ideas and inspirations went into this final version.

I, Brian, would like to thank the millions of my students in fifty-eight countries who have embraced these ideas and used them to get rid of the negative beliefs and emotions holding them back from becoming the extraordinary people they were meant to be.

Most of all, I thank my wonderful wife, Barbara, who has worked with me since we began teaching these ideas in seminars and workshops in 1981 and whose knowledge of psychology and personality development contributed immeasurably to the polishing of the presentation and delivery of these ideas and concepts, making them acceptable and assimilable to people worldwide.

I, Christina, would like to acknowledge several people who have encouraged, challenged, and loved me. First are the members of my family: Mom, Dad, Michael, Tasha, David, Sara, and Cat. Second are the members of my other family: Jackie, Larry, Scott, GG, Mr. GG, and Danielle, who is the best older sister I could hope for.

I also want to thank my dear friends Niki Rein and Mina Neuberg, who see my potential and continue to love and encourage me to be the best I can be. Thank you to my mentors, who all in their own individual ways have taught me to question, explore, trust, and embrace so many wonderful principles in human development and psychology. Thanks also to Debbie Couillard, Larry Knabb, Judy Grear, Gerald Jellison, Debbie Brunsten, Astrid Shwartz, and Paul Chek, and to Josie Kelly, who has guided me through the swamp and taught me how to embrace my own frogs. Of course, a special thanks to my dad, Brian, and my mother, Barbara, who through their wisdom have raised me to be a confident, strong-willed, and persistent woman. Thank you so much for having faith in my knowledge and ability. Im thrilled to have been a coauthor on this book.

Also by Brian Tracy

Eat That Frog!

21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time, Second Edition

Theres an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, youll have the satisfaction of knowing that youve done the hardest thing youll do all day. Using this as a metaphor for tackling difficult tasks that you are most likely to put off but that can have the greatest positive impact on your life, Brian Tracy shows you how to not only get more done but get the right things done.

Paperback, 144 pages, ISBN 978-1-57675-422-1
PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-57675-504-4

Goals!

How to Get Everything You WantFaster Than You Ever Thought Possible, Second Edition

Brian Tracy presents a simple, powerful, and effective system for setting and achieving goalsa method that has been used by more than one million people to achieve extraordinary things. In this revised and expanded second edition, he has added three new chapters addressing areas in which goals can be most rewarding but also the toughest to set and keep: finances, family, and health.

Paperback, 304 pages, ISBN 978-1-60509-411-3
PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-60509-412-0

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Flight Plan

The Real Secret of Success