This is Stiefer Robbins.

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

Sometimes we just have a ton to do, and completing a lot of low-thought physical tasks at once can be overwhelming.

At green growing things, one and two, the holiday season is in full swing, and that means putting

holiday price tags on the inventory, moving the Audrey twos from the holding pens to the front

window display, wrapping gifts for the staff, and making sure the Audrey twos are happy in their

new display.

It's a heck of a lot to get done, and it all has to keep moving at once.

Melvin and Bernice and MG.G. and Europa and Thomas

are rushing around like chickens whose feet are tied to a Rumba vacuum cleaner. That's a metaphor

that's always made much more sense than the thing about chickens without heads. When you're

procrastinating a lot, I've done an episode on speed dating your tasks, which is where you

regularly cycle and rapidly cycle through your tasks.

That doesn't quite fit here. Speed dating is mostly about overcoming procrastination.

Here, the gang wants to make steady progress on many different tasks that have many different

rhythms, and none of the tasks is obviously more important or more urgent. They all just need to

get done. Divide each task into known small steps.

Putting holiday tags on the inventory can proceed shelf by shelf.

Each shelf can be tagged in one quick 10-minute session.

The way the team sets it up, every time a team member walks by a shelf that hasn't been

tagged yet, they pop in, tag one shelf, and then continue on their way.

Once a shelf has been tagged, we put a cute little removable holiday sticker on the shelf,

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