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

Emily writes in, I often plan to catch up on work on planes, but I end up fumbling through papers

and hunting for outlets. On long trips, I need to be productive. What do you recommend focusing on? If you travel a lot,

you need to know how to make the most of your time on planes. I first started working on planes

when I started speaking on entrepreneurship and leadership. I would bored, thinking, this is a great

chance to get some work done. After all, my speech ran 45 minutes, and the flight was an hour and a half,

which left half an hour for Q&A with a captive audience of a couple hundred people.

Sadly, not all the passengers were as excited about entrepreneurship as I am.

And did you know that airplanes carry straight jackets? They even have muzzles.

With laptops, it's tempting to bring your entire

office with you when you fly. Don't. Plains are perfect for the things you can't do in your normal

office. Your office is a mishmash of phone calls, emails, text messages, interruptions, and multitasking.

In other words, utterly unproductive time that erodes your brain and turns you into an

anxiety-ridden hair-trigger explosion waiting to happen. Reproducing that on a plane is a bad

idea. I recommend not bringing a laptop and doing your plane work on paper. Working on paper gives

you time to think about what you're doing and do a really

good job. Paper needs no power cords. And besides, with a laptop, the person next to you can

clearly read your entire strategic plan. You may not care now, but when you walk into the

negotiating room and she turns out to be the CEO of the company

you're negotiating with, you'll regret it. True story. Even work like designing slides or writing

a first draft can go faster on paper than with a computer. That's because on a computer,

we get sucked into adjusting our font sizes, choosing our clip art, and creating transitions. With

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