This is Stevea Robbins, and welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Relationships. I just love relationships. Whether they're business or family, romantic, or, well,

you know, relationships make the world go round. Well, relationships and angular momentum.

There's only one teeny tiny problem with relationships.

They force you to put up with other people.

Other people expect us to do things for them, even if they don't tell us.

Project manager Leslie once gave me a tongue lashing for not getting sign off on a project.

Of course, no one, including Leslie, had told me that I needed to get sign-off

on the project. But there we were. Mind-reading was apparently part of my job description.

Of course, everything's different when I'm the one expecting them to deliver, then, of course,

they should know exactly what I want when I want it, and they should deliver it on time. And the moment it's late, my blood justifiably begins to boil.

I sent a long, innocent little text messages.

Hey there, you're a special unique human being with high intrinsic worth.

If you could just zip that marketing report over to me right now, I'll be your friend forever.

They don't send it,

and I want to kill them. The problem, of course, is that we're each doing 50% of the work.

Together, we should get 100% of the project done. Unfortunately, though, far too often, we each do

our 50%, and together we only get 75% done. That's because we're each individually aiming too low.

Just shooting for getting your 50% done isn't good enough. Consider golf, a sport that I might

recognize if it were on TV with the title of golf in big letters across the top of the screen.

It's common wisdom in golf that you don't aim your club

at the ball. If you do, you unconsciously slow down at the last minute and you screw up your

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