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

They say that learning how to get motivated is the golden ticket to the chocolate factory of life.

And at the very least, if you happen to own a chocolate factory, knowing how to motivate employees will allow you to convince an entire race of umpah-lumpas

to come be your workforce, and the world's largest green-faced orange-haired

Acapella singing group while they're at it.

Let's return to that bastion of motivation, the gym.

Recently, I spent three weeks traveling.

The hotel gym was small, and there was no one else there to admire my manly man body,

as I picked up and put down heavy objects.

This made picking up and putting down seem so much more pointless than it had been before.

I mean, I'm not saying that being admired is how I motivate myself to go to the gym.

I'm just saying that without the admiration, well,

picking up and putting down heavy objects just isn't as engaging as it might otherwise be.

So I didn't work out for the entire three weeks of my trip. And when I returned home,

I informed trainer Steve, my current trainer, that I hadn't worked out while traveling.

You doofus, he proclaimed,

You have to work out.

Otherwise, you'll never get the results you want.

You will become a slug, a lump.

You will be a couch potato who does nothing but watch TV all day.

I was furious, not because he was right.

Of course he wasn't right.

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