This is Stevea Robbins.

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

Writing. I just love writing. And to produce the best writing, you need editing.

Editing, I just love...

No. No, I don't. I hate editing. Writing takes a lot of time in the first place, and when you add

editing on top of it, it takes even longer. But there's a better way. Think about newspapers.

Newspapers create hundreds of pages of high-quality writing every single day, and all of it

goes through a writer and an editor. They must have secret superpowers, or they've found a magical way to speed up the

process. Bernice was working on a first article for her Green Growing Things blog. She really

wanted Melvin to review the articles. He was busy with IT problems, with the computers that are

controlling the annual Green Growing Things Greenhouse Pink Floyd Laser Light Show Sleepover, Pillow Fight

Extravaganza Fest 2016, so he couldn't spend too much time on her writing.

But editing writing takes time no matter what, and Bernice did need the articles looked at quickly.

After all, the Extravaganza Fest was coming.

When there's little time, but time is of the essence, we need a way to edit fast.

So use the 80-20 principle to do that.

The 80-20 principle says that only about 20% of your work leads to 80% of the result. Here's an example.

Let's say that you're starting a freelancing career. Your to-do list contains a gazillion items.

Get logo designed. Find website provider. Create website wireframes.

Return phone call to prospective client. Print business cards. Send bank statements to bookkeeper.

That's a lot to do, right? Wrong. If the goal is to have a thriving business, the to-do item,

return phone call to prospective client, is the 20% of the task list that gets you 80% of the

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