Steveer Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Mike rode in with the following question. Hey, I'm trying really hard to stop procrastinating my work,

but it's so hard to find the motivation. Could you give me some hints and tricks to help stop the demon of

procrastination? Great question, Mike. And it's really important. So I'll answer it later.

The neat thing about procrastination in January is that New Year's resolutions and procrastination go

hand in hand. You can procrastinate all year by saying, it's okay. At New Year's,

I'll just make a resolution. Then in January, you make the resolution and promptly procrastinate

actually doing it. Vala, life is great. You get to feel like you're making progress without

the inconvenience of actually doing something. Here's how I procrastinate my resolution.

Yay! I'm gonna diet!

Oh hey, honey, there's still a cookie left.

Hmm, I can have that now, and I'll start dieting tomorrow.

Oh, I know I shouldn't, but munch, munch, munch, munch.

Yum, cookie! I suck. I do this every year,

and somehow I keep thinking it'll work. Hopeless, what am I doing? I'm trying it alone.

I'm living in a fantasy world, thinking only of my end goal, diet or don't diet, and then flogging

myself with guilt, not exactly an awaken the giant

within moment. What if we turned all that around? Let's find support from other people, focus on

reality, measure progress, and drop the guilt. Enter Marshall Goldsmith, one of the world's top

executive coaches and an expert in behavior change, he's graciously

offered to let me share a technique that you can use both to overcome procrastination

and keep your New Year's resolutions. First, you need a friend. Any kind will do. If you don't

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