This is Stevea Robbins.

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

We love being productive, and we look for big, honkin ways to be more productive.

Things like forming habits through triggers or setting up a new email system.

You can find links to my episodes on those topics in this episode's transcript.

We like big changes that we think we'll have big effects. But as my episode on 30 minutes a day

equals three weeks a year points out, there are small behaviors that add up to the greatest

gains of all. And the smallest behavior for the greatest gain? It's at your fingertips.

Literally, look to your keyboard.

You've spent thousands of dollars to learn important professional skills.

You went to college.

You indebted yourself for life.

All to become a master of stuff that matters.

But you know what?

Once you're in the quote-unquote real world,

the real gatekeeper of our hyper-technological society rears its ugly snake-encrusted head. And that's your

computer. Everything gets done 24-7 through your keyboard. So enroll in a touch-typing class,

find one online, get a book and practice. It's a few weeks

worth of work that will pay for itself for the rest of your life. Faster typing means faster

anything that requires typing. And these days, anything is the new everything, all the time.

So a 10% increase in typing speed will give you a 10 percent increase in productivity across the board.

Hey, if it's worth going into debt to learn about mid-13th century Russian popes, were there any

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