This is Stevea Robbins.

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

They say the devil is in the details.

Have you ever wondered what that means?

I looked at some of the details really closely and there weren't any devils there.

I mean, there was an old ATM receipt and some belly button lint,

and a little bit of toenail fungus.

But no devils.

All the devil does is keep his word. Someone says, I'll give you my soul if you give me a billion

dollars. Wah ha ha ha ha ha ha. So the devil gives it in pennies, dropped from a distance of a hundred

feet. Yes, the person is crushed to death, and we all say, oh, the devil is so evil.

But we think the devil's a poohy head because even though he's adhering to the letter of the law,

he's actually violating the spirit of the law.

And unfortunately, lots of people follow his example.

You can protect yourself when making a deal by adding concrete examples to your agreements.

When you deliver a working product, we'll send your payment. They say, you deliver a working

product, and then they say, well, it doesn't make blueberry waffles unattended. You say,

no, it's a lawnmower. That's not what it's supposed to do. And they say, but we want that. And then they

refuse to pay. If you're a creative, professional writer, or graphic designer, artist, software,

engineer, photographer, or pretty much any type of freelancer, you have definitely heard this.

If you're a freelancer of any other sort, you've probably heard it. and if you're an employee who uses freelancers, you've probably

said it, thus putting your life at risk from the charming but sociopathic freelancer you last

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