First, Eat Your Frog: And Other Pearls for Professional Working Mothers - Elizabeth Kagan Arleo
\n \nFIRST, EAT YOUR FROG is a meticulously referenced book presenting eight lessons (or pearls) learned by a successful woman in medicine--Dr. Elizabeth Kagan Arleo. Benefits to the reader include improved work-life integration; more easeful relationships at work with colleagues and at home with family; better time management in both spheres; and core tenets for thriving as a professional working mother.\n \n \n\n \nThe chapters cover eight key lessons the author has learned in her ongoing journey as a mother of three, practicing physician, and editor-in-chief of Clinical Imaging, including: \n \n1. Eat your frog\n \n2. 168 hours--you have more time that you think\n \n3. If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail\n \n4. Remember the pre-meeting meeting\n \n5. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good\n \n6. Stop over-apologizing\n \n7. It doesn't hurt to ask politely\n \n8. Have a growth mindset\n \n \n \nIn FIRST, EAT YOUR FROG, Dr. Arleo gives ample credit to the authors and mentors who inspired the lessons and provides explicit guidance -- and highly entertaining stories -- to help readers move toward less overwhelm and more work-life balance.\n