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

My palmerniece wants only the best for her wedding. Oh, she wants the best music, the best cake,

the best location, and the best weather. It needs to be the most romantic wedding ever and have the

best food, wine, and cheese at the reception. Oh,

did I mention the guest list? Every important person in her life just has to be there.

She's going over every detail with a fine-tooth comb, finding and evaluating every possible option.

Bernice, in other words, is a maximizer. When faced with a choice, a maximizer will try to make the best choice possible.

They want to make every possible aspect of the end result perfect.

They're often disappointed.

Sometimes getting the lowest cost, for example, won't also get the highest quality.

Life has tradeoffs, and maximizers hate that. What's worse, after decision is

made, maximizers obsess over whether they missed out on a better option than the one they chose.

Oh, and if anything goes wrong later, say, it turns out that Bernice's cake has 40 more calories

per slice than anticipated, they always remember the one option they didn't choose that wouldn't

have had that problem. Never mind that even though it would have been perfect in its calorie

count, a cucumber and hummus sweating cake would have been unfortunate. Maximizing gets better outcomes,

but decisions can take longer and they're often accompanied by regret. Melvin, Bernice's boyfriend,

is a satisfacer. He yearned for years for a white Toyota Corolla, and he wanted to pay under

$7,000 for it. When it was time to buy a car, the first showroom he walked into had a used

white Toyota Corolla in the lot with a sticker price of

$6,500. He bought it. On the spot. Bernice was horrified that Melvin didn't shop around.

Well, he said, it met my criteria. So why look any further? Satisfisers combine the ideas of

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