This is Steveer Robbins.

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

Some of us yearn to get everything on our to-do lists done.

We pride ourselves on our amazing lists, and then we add things to them faster than we can possibly do them.

The mountain of task grows, thrusting out of our office like a new volcano rising from the North Pacific.

Only instead of being populated with palm trees and indigenous peoples, our mountain is populated with checkboxes and blinking past-do dates.

This isn't how life has to be.

Consider entrepreneur Richard Giles Whiting.

He doesn't have an English accent, but he should. He is chill.

Very, very chill. Although he pretends to be an American businessman, I'm convinced he's a secret

agent in real life. Only a secret agent could stay so serene and composed while battling nefarious

evil masterminds, running his own company and maintaining

a relationship with his very own schmopee. I asked him recently how he manages to get it all done

without the olives sloshing out of his martini. Richard began by explaining that everything

takes time. Well, duh, I knew that. Even if you're falling into the event horizon of the

gigantic black hole in the center of the galaxy, you appear to freeze forever, but from your

point of view, time does keep ticking. And if everything takes time, he says, then you'll

actually end up doing the things during blocks of time. So far, I'm enthralled with the brilliance

of his explanation. And since everything belongs in a time block, Richard puts it on his calendar the moment

he decides to do something.

By deciding in advance which time block he'll use for a task, he makes sure that everything

fits in his schedule.

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