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Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2015

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Is your "to read" folder overflowing because you can't find any spare time to catch up? Get-It-Done Guy shows you how unsubcribing from all of your newsletters and updates can help clear up your time for the important things in your life. Read the transcript: http://bit.ly/1N5MFxz

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0:00.0	This is Steva Robbins.
0:04.5	Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.
0:08.9	Are you feeling overloaded?
0:10.3	Like there aren't enough hours in the day?
0:12.6	Well, me too.
0:14.0	And there aren't.
0:15.2	There are supposed to be 38 hours in the day, unfortunately, supposed to be and are are two different things.
0:21.7	And therein lies the problem.
0:23.7	Because the root of the problem is that we have more choice than ever before in human history,
0:28.2	and that's supposed to be good.
0:30.6	Unfortunately, supposed to be and are, are two different things.
0:35.3	My friend Oswald has a problem.
0:37.1	He has too much to do. He has conferences to
0:39.3	put on real estate to renovate, race horses to breed, and pretzels to sort into piles by topological
0:44.8	shape before he eats them. Okay, he also has a few appointments with his psychiatrist that he
0:50.8	really needs to make it to. He's just surrounded with opportunity, and he is
0:55.5	miserable. He has no free time to do the things that are really important to him, like taking
1:00.3	picnics with his schmupy on Sunday afternoon on the island of Lagrangeotte. Too much opportunity
1:06.9	isn't fun. Oswald's inboxes, they're overflowing. He gets newsletters on conferences,
1:13.0	real estate deals, racehorse breeding, and pretzel baking. Being a smart guy who believes in the
1:17.0	value of good information, he saves them all and reads them in his spare time. Did I mention
1:22.1	that he has no spare time? His to read folder is getting very full, and half of his email time is spent scanning
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