Hi, I'm Stever Robbins. In every episode, I give actionable tips on how to work less and do more at work and home. My Personal Mission is spreading happiness by helping you be more effective at creating the life you want--one file folder at a time.
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Get-it-done Guy Today's podcast came from a listener question about how to stay committed to a weight loss program. Weight loss is tricky, since my understanding is that it often involves lots of other issues. I brought in several general commitment principles, and hope that they can be applied to weight loss in this case.
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Get-It-Done Guy host Stever Robbins is a successful entrepreneur who loves productivity in the service of personal fulfillment. A veteran of nine startups, including FTP Software, Intuit, and HEAR Music. Stever is a graduate of Harvard Business School and MIT.
Get-it-done Guy A listener wrote in asking for help managing inventories of stuff (e.g. books, CDs, etc.) I don't think they were referring to inventories in the business sense, but rather to keeping track of their own collections. I have some ideas, from my own past, but am looking for other ideas...?
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This week's episode is on organizing the various stuff that comes from projects, hobbies, and classwork. The episode answers listener Alex's question. The answer was inspired by my office, which works best when everything has a neat, well-defined place, identified clearly with a little sticky label. http://getitdone.qu...ickanddirtytips.com/how-to-organize-stuf
Get-it-done Guy Running action days next week: http://actionday1221.eventbrite.com, http://actionday1222.eventbrite.com to sign up. Almost certainly the last action days of 2009.
Get-it-done Guy Am just realizing the power of TiVO/DVR (yes, I'm a slow learner). Let's me fit entertainment into my schedule instead of forcing me to meet their schedule. End result? I watch more than I would otherwise. Everyone wins.
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Action days this week! Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. What's an action day? http://is.gd/3R9W0 Be notified of future days: http://www.steverrobbins.com/getitdonegu
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Get-it-done Guy While writing my book, each chapter was plagued by the very thing it addressed. I procrastinated the chapter on procrastination. The chapter on getting organized started with the most disorganized outline. "Leverage" is the only chapter that didn't reuse material from the previous draft. I'd love to think it was the un...iverse giving me a chance to test the material. Maybe I was just being flaky.
Get-it-done Guy Tempting to interview successful ppl to find the qualities of their success. Be careful, tho. Asking for success stories instead of specific tactics risks the Halo Effect. Richard St. John's TED Talk succumbs to the Halo Effect: http://su.pr/2rP785 . If you DO ask about tactics, finding causality requires you make sure... people who used those tactics succeeded, and people who didn't use those tactics didn't succeed.
Get-it-done Guy I started celebrating the Friday before last, because I thought manuscript done meant work was done. Nope. We had a full round of edits to go. Just finished up all the edits and the book's off to the copy-editor's desk. My part--the hard writing part, at least--is over! Yippee! That light at the end of the tunnel is ev...en closer, now. It's pretty. It could be light filtering through a glass of Dom Perignon.
Get-it-done Guy Still space in tomorrow's action day. Want to come be productive? Sign up for free here: http://actionday1105.eventbrite.com/
Get-it-done Guy Six weeks of book mono-tasking-focus & flow was WONDERFUL. Multi-tasking today felt draining/scattered. FOCUS RULES! (as my book will discuss). The manuscript is done and we're in the 2nd-to-last editing pass. The book goes to copy-editing next week, so the end of my intense writing involvement is very much in sight. T...he light at the end of the tunnel is hopefully the light on the set of Oprah.
Get-it-done Guy I've breathed a huge sigh of relief. My manuscript went off to the editor Friday. Today I'm supposedly resting and relaxing. Looking around, the office is a disaster area. Two more action days this coming week to start bringing my life back into a semblance of normalcy after 18 months of writing. Join me Thursday 11/5 ...or Friday 11/6: http://actionday1105.eventbrite.com or http://actionday1106.eventbrite.com
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