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Modern Mentor

145 GID How to Make Hard Decisions

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3720 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2010

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Learn how to make hard decisions and get a very simple, yet powerful tip on how you can easily make those complex decisions than can stress you out.

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0:00.0

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

0:09.6

My book, Get It Done Guys, Nine Steps to Work Less and Do More, is coming out in mid-September.

0:14.8

I'm scrunching my brow with a look of extreme determination and hunkering down to do all the prep work that'll make it a bestseller.

0:23.0

Sadly, no one knows what will make it a bestseller.

0:26.4

In anticipation of the book's success, I'm doing what every good business author does,

0:31.6

writing a one-man musical based on the book.

0:33.8

But it's not easy.

0:35.1

I've never written a musical, or a normal play, or a short story.

0:39.4

And no one's ever really written a musical about labeling file folders.

0:43.4

This adventure is fraught with decisions.

0:46.0

Who's my character?

0:47.3

What's his motivation?

0:48.8

Why does he need to label file folders in the first place?

0:51.7

And who is the mysterious, disembodied voice he keeps hearing?

0:55.5

If he's a modern business person, maybe his high-tech labels are blank because of sunspots,

1:00.6

or maybe his file folders are blank because the disembodied voice is an evil spirit bent on

1:05.4

destroying him.

1:06.6

But then he couldn't possibly be modern day.

1:08.7

Maybe he's an 8th century Persian prince in disguise.

1:14.0

Oh, this is too hard.

1:18.1

Maybe I'll just sit here and be grumpy.

1:20.3

Then I'll punish myself for not being able to make more progress

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