Stephen Robbins here.

Welcome to the get it done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Listener, Caitlin, has a problem.

She rides in.

I provide administrative support for three bosses.

Prioritizing is hard.

How do I schedule my time when they don't have neat equal workloads for me every week?

Oh, Caitlin, Caitlin.

They say that a man cannot serve three masters.

Fortunately, a woman can, and you're either a woman or a man named Caitlin.

When you serve only one master, prioritizing is easy.

Your boss gives you 5,000 things to do, and you say,

boss, I can't do 5,000 things at once.

Which one do I do first?

All of them.

You reply, of course, I understand.

And which one would that be?

Eventually, your boss will have to answer.

With three bosses, however, there's no one authority on how you should spend your time, except you.

Especially if your bosses aren't around all the time, it can be really tough to prioritize the

tasks between the bosses. Let's say your bosses are evil geniuses who are scheming to take

over the world. One is raising a zombie army, of course. Another is teaming up with space aliens to destroy Washington,

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