Stevea Robbins here.

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

If you want to be respected and taken seriously in this world, you need to get back to basics.

The 21st century has revolutionized technology.

We have smartphones, tablets, streaming this and streaming that.

But humans still interact

in the same way. Well, almost. Now, we glorify psychological disorders by giving them

cool marketing names. Narcissism becomes sharing. And padding your resume is now the friendlier

personal branding. Long ago, we simply called it

reputation. Just because we give everything a cool marketing name doesn't mean that we should

disregard the deep truth here. Regardless of what you call it, reputation is important. If people

know you keep your commitments and get things done, that reputation makes you valuable.

Not as valuable as if you were made out of solid platinum inlaid with rubies, but valuable enough that you'll have many more options as you proceed through life.

Some people seem to keep commitments effortlessly, while others struggle.

The secret isn't in willpower.

Willpower, no matter how much we glorified in movies and mythology,

doesn't work well to get things done except in really short sprints.

What does work is creating systems that make sure you fulfill your commitments.

In part one of this two-part series, we will cover nine tips on how to fulfill your commitments.

Here are the first five.

Tip number one, only take on commitments you can fulfill. You'll never fulfill commitments if you take on too many, so start by

building a system to keep out all but the ones you can handle. Before making a commitment,

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