Steven Robbins here.

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

There's an insidious disease eating the world.

It's our belief that we can do it all and do it all at once.

For women, it's called the Superwoman syndrome.

For guys, it's called, I don't um, being ambitious. And if it has a name

for intersex people, I've never heard it. My client, Autumn, is a newly self-employed copywriter.

Autumn wants to build her business, but doesn't have a website. This means hours each day are spent

working on the site. But, Autumn also squeezes in client calls every now and then,

and when clients bite, and they have been biting, there's project work to add on top of all

of that. The result? 60-hour weeks. And guilt. Lots of guilt. When working on the website,

there's a guilt about sales calls that aren't happening. During sales calls, there's guilt about

the website work.

Or even worse, the attempt to work on both at once, which is a great way to give neither

the attention it deserves, plus it turns your brain to mush. Autumn's problem is trying

to do everything at once. The website seems pressing. Getting clients seems pressing, So it's easy to believe both must happen now.

This is what leads to over-commitment. Here are seven quick tips for dealing with this kind of over-commitment.

Tip number one, think through your priorities. In Autumn's case, there are three projects, creating the website, prospecting by telephone,

and working on current client projects.

The most important is current client projects.

Failing to deliver quality results to clients will tank the business, period.

Next priority is making prospecting calls.

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