This is Stevea Robbins.

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

It's not easy being the bottleneck, but when you're the one in the middle of everything,

you can still get your own work done and be there for everyone else.

It's a new school year at Grandma Cuddles Daycare Center, and the New Year starts with cursive lessons.

Yay!

Each tyke learns cursive by tracing an adult's handwriting until they can duplicate the letters exactly.

One of the tots is transcribing the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's handwriting.

Another, Amelia Earhart's memoirs in Amelia's own scripts.

And, of course, the star pupil has been given the handwriting of the Pentagon's

chief procurement officer.

The penmanship is astonishingly accurate, except for a tainty bit of confusion over the spelling

of nuclear versus nuclear.

But overall, Grandma is finding the Kitty's art projects quite useful to her plans.

As well as the lessons are going, Grandma still has to review and approve every one of the letters the kids have written before the letter is sent out to, well, whoever it is that Grandma sends them to.

Probably the parents. Yes, the parents. I'm sure of it. Unfortunately, Grandma has a very busy schedule.

She has lessons to plan, perspective, students to interview, discipline committee cases to review, and new machinery to install.

And the tots? As they finish their assignments, they line up outside her office waiting with hopeful smiles on their faces,

papers clutched in their innocent little hands,

and they wait, and they wait, sometimes for days.

This is a familiar story in business.

The more important you are, and I'm sure you're very important, the more everyone else gets

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