Stevea Robbins here.

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

If you haven't bought my book yet, you can read some excerpts from it.

In the mini ebook, Three Bad Habits Successful People Break.

You can download it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, the I Bookstore, or Books a Million.

Life after college can take some adjusting.

Oh, at first the freedom is exhilarating.

No problem sets.

No papers.

Yay!

Then you realize you have a job.

You're supposed to dress like a robot, suppress your individuality, and submit your will to your corporate overlords.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. The joke's on you. Welcome to being an adult.

Of course, things might not be quite that bad. I mean, you might not have a job yet and be

living at home. Fun! But, you really will need a job, so your job right now is to get a job.

Either way, there are some basics you need to get things done in the real world. Learn these tools now and start making them a habit. Your brain is still flexible and nimble. Train it well, and these will pay off for your entire career. Tip number one, get a calendar. In the real world, people schedule things.

You'll find obsessive stress-driven people who actually schedule things down to the minute.

You need a calendar so you can make appointments far in advance and note down deadlines

so you have ample warning.

And when you record a deadline in your calendar, at the same time,

you can block out time to work on the project so you're sure of meeting the deadline.

My tool of choice is Google Calendar.

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