This is Stephen Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

As you surely know, my day job is helping people make their dreams come true.

Sometimes that means helping them strike out and climb Mount Kilimanjaro.

Other times, it means helping them with their careers or building a business.

The most common thing that stops people isn't fear or toxic people or not knowing how to do it.

What stops people in their tracks is that they're doing everything except making their dreams come true.

Let's take Stacey, for example.

Today was a very busy day.

Stacey spent two hours rewriting a website, an hour arranging a trip

90 minutes posting on Facebook to build a personal brand, and then some time writing an article

to get lots of exposure. Stacey's day has been very busy and obviously oh so productive.

Or was it? Here's another example. Skyler is a very productive worker.

Chris isn't.

Give both the same assignment and they start working.

There's tons of activity.

Skyler, being productive, finishes,

grabs a copy of the Hunger Games and starts reading.

Chris keeps running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

You wander down the hall and you see them.

Skyler's reading a book. Chris is

zipping around like a busy little bee. Do you think, how productive Skylar is? Of course not.

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