126 GID How to Scope Your Workload

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2010

⏱️ 5 minutes

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A huge source of work backlog is that we take on far more than we can handle, because we have overly-optimistic ideas of what we can get done in a single day. We scope a project and scope our day with great ambition. Too much ambition. Learn to be an average achiever-consistently-and you may end up getting far more done than you think possible. Questions go to [email protected] or 888-WRK-LESS. Like what you hear? Help us out by writing a review at iTunes!

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0:00.0	Stiefer Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less
0:07.7	and do more. Today's topic is how you can go further by being average. At the end of the
0:13.8	episode, we'll also be having a free drawing for, well, just listen. Bernice is ambitious. Her goal
0:20.7	is to be CEO, that's chief
0:22.7	enlightenment officer, of the company by the time she's older. She thinks the way to do it is by
0:28.9	making everyone happy. She makes people happy by doing things for them. No project is too big for her
0:34.7	go get a attitude. Unfortunately,
0:39.2	she overcommits, and she's stressed about it.
0:41.2	Bernice's plight is common.
0:43.0	Even for those of us who aren't very ambitious,
0:44.9	it's easy to say yes when someone asks us to do
0:47.2	something. Be in charge of arranging
0:49.2	the holiday party for the office?
0:51.2	Sure. Arrange for all
0:53.0	219 branch managers to attend? Sure.
0:57.4	Seat them and their husbands, wives, significant others, or polyamorous family units,
1:01.0	so each person is next to one person they know and one person they don't know, but who has a
1:05.2	common interest. Uh, that sounds like a lot. Yeah, okay. And make sure each dessert is...
1:11.6	You get the picture. Stress Fest, al-a-mode. Do you take on too much? Sometimes the problem is that we can't say no. I covered that in an early Get a Done Guy episode, which is linked to in this episode's transcript.
1:25.3	Sometimes, though, the problem is we genuinely mean yes, because we
1:29.5	foolishly believe that taking on an extra 15-hour-a-day project, in addition to our existing 19-hour-a-day
1:34.9	project, is perfectly feasible. We just have to buckle down and give it the old college try.
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