This is Stevea Robbins. Welcome to the Get at Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

29-year-old Timmy had a problem. The dashing young man's business was too successful. We started working

together to help build a business that he could run a few hours a day so that he could follow his

dreams of being a tap dancing point list point-list portrait artist at night.

To respect his privacy, I won't say exactly what he does, but let's pretend that his day job is as a creative genius marketing consultant.

He lives in New York. He's smart, he's talented, he has leading man good looks, and he's watching every episode of Buffy and Angel and is single,

looking for relationship-oriented woman.

If you know any, please email get it done at quick and dirty tips.com.

At first, Timmy was scraping to get by, but gradually the quality of his marketing work began

to speak for itself.

At first, just simple words like, hmm, and, ooh, that's nice.

But soon enough, the quality began saying things like,

hey, hire this guy, he's a complete genius.

People listened, Timmy's client list grew.

The more he did good work, the more people wanted him,

and the more they wanted to pay him.

The more they paid him, the more they thought they owned him.

Now they'd call it 8 p.m. demanding his input on a creative decision.

I'm busy rehearsing my tap routines.

He would declare, we don't care.

We really need your input on the tagline for our brand of doggy toothpaste now.

Timmy's success was making him miserable.

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