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

I just love cleaning. No, I'm lying. I hate cleaning. Just like I hate scrubbing the grout between the tiles and my shower.

I managed to procrastinate cleaning my bathroom for an entire decade.

It turns out if you wait long enough, the grout turns black, forming a pleasing checkerboard pattern.

But when the grout started demanding that I feed it, I knew it was time to take measures.

Your personal nemesis may not be grout.

For you, it may be preparing next year's budget, or doing the laundry laundry or reading the new procedures manual. These things are all so much fun. It makes you want to squeal with glee, and now I'm not

talking about the TV show. The problem is that these tasks are large enough that your brain knows

they might expand to fill the rest of your foreseeable life. It doesn't want to let you get started

because then you might never finish. If you're going to die in the rest of your foreseeable life. It doesn't want to let you get started because

then you might never finish. If you're going to die in the middle of a project, your brain would

rather it be writing your magnum opus, an operetta in 12-part harmony about a chicken farmer's quest for

true love. Dying in the middle of cleaning your grout would just be embarrassing. And yet,

both the grout and the operetta must be done. Here are six tips on how to stop procrastinating onerous tasks. These are

based on the stop procrastinating chapter of my book, Get It Done Guys, Nine Steps to Work Less, and

do more. We're taught that the secret to finishing a big task is to break it into baby steps.

There's only one problem.

This rarely works, at least for me.

Don't divide the task into baby steps.

Instead, divide your time into baby chunks.

Tip number one, schedule 15 minutes a day.

Your brain is scared that cleaning the grout will devour all the time you have left in the

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