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

If you're like me, you so often want to do huge, great things like end world hunger, fly to the moon,

or wrap the Eiffel Tower and toilet paper as a subversive statement aimed at overthrowing the status quo.

But then, you don't actually

do it. And it's not because of the security guards. It's because of something else. When you find

yourself not stepping up to do the great things you have in mind, it's because you haven't aligned

everything you have behind your awesome and amazing goal.

Also, check out my episode on how to set the right goals. There's a link in this episode's

transcript. When I was a wee lad of just 23 or 24 years old, a man named Joe Yeager taught

me an elegant way to align myself behind my goals. In order to do it, though, you need a

goal. So think of a goal that you haven't

been making progress on, but you want to. Got one? Good. Keep it in mind as we go through this

episode. You need raw desire. You need want to. They say you can't always get what you want,

and it's true, but only because you're not a Kardashian. It's also true that you can't always get what you want, and it's true, but only because you're not a Kardashian.

It's also true that you won't ever get what you don't want.

In order to reach your goal, you need to want it, but it's easy to fool yourself into thinking you want something that you really don't.

A coaching client of mine wanted to start a world-changing social enterprise to realize his deep desire to do good for the world.

We delved into preparations, and somehow he kept dragging his feet.

There was always a reason why he couldn't quite start on the actions we'd outlined.

Next week, I'll do it for sure, he proclaimed.

But it never happened.

He always had a different excuse, and it was always a good excuse, but it was always some excuse.

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