This is Steveer Robbins.

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

They say you should choose your battles wisely.

That makes sense.

Consider Napoleon.

He chose to fight at Waterloo, and that didn't work out too well for him.

If he'd chosen more wisely, he might have chosen to fight at Gettysburg.

Then he would have given the Gettysburg address and had a movie made about him, only instead

of starring Daniel D. Louis, it would have been starring Danny DeVito. One unwisely chosen battle

centuries ago changed the entire course of the Academy Awards centuries later. In our daily lives, choosing battles unwisely

means that we can waste a lot of time and energy on the wrong thing. This very evening,

listener Emily proclaimed on her Facebook wall that she was thrilled that a business celebrity

sent her a message. Imagine my surprise to find out she was talking about me. Now,

I could have spent time arguing that I'm certainly not a celebrity, and I'm far too humble and

modest to deserve such a claim and adoration. But what would have been the point? I'm sure

you'll agree that it makes much more sense to accept her statement at face value as simply a

statement of fact and save

my energy for an important battle.

Where in your life and your work do you fight battles?

Why?

Are those the right battles?

Let's explore how you can make sure that you fight less and win more.

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