This is Steva Robbins, and the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

A friend of mine writes,

Britsen, bracken, rats, and fratten, I have to do quarterly tax stuff today,

and I don't have time to do quarterly tax stuff today.

Help.

Well, I reply. Isn't it tragic? It seems as if there's

always stuff to do that isn't fun, and that's true. There always is, as long as you let it be that

way. You're falling into a common productivity trap, spending your time on stuff you don't enjoy

or that you aren't good at. If you don't enjoy

something such as doing your taxes, you won't wake up saying, gee, the world is a beautiful

place, the sun is shining, birds are chirping, what a great day to do taxes. Instead, you'll

put them off to the last minute or beyond.

Then you'll suffer through every minute.

Then, of course, you can buy yourself an ice cream cone to celebrate and a gym membership to work it off.

For the same price, you could have just hired a bookkeeper in the first place.

We have this wonderful theory that says,

if you want to succeed, work to overcome your weaknesses. Uh-uh, that doesn't cut it. It turns out

that most successful people concentrate on their strengths and passions, and they do everything

possible to delegate their weaknesses to someone else. That's why we have administrative assistance.

You pair up someone who loves organizing with a creative, scattered, I don't do details type of person,

and they'll do far more than if the scattered person tried to develop his or her own organizing skills.

Trust me, I speak from experience on this one. If you need something done, find someone to help.

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