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

We all have people we want to reach agreements with about the future. But different people see the

future different ways, and this changes what we're willing to agree to. You might think you're going

to ship your product on time free of defects and revolutionize the market. Your customer might think you're going to ship your product on time free of defects and revolutionize

the market. Your customer might think you're going to deliver a hobbled together prototype

six months too late. Of course, you're the one who's right. But just in case, if you're going

to make plans and agreements about the future, you need to take into account a future where

everyone thinks something a little bit different is going

to happen. You need tools for uncertainty, and we have those tools. They're called contingency

clauses. You can bet on external conditions, things that you can't control. When you're setting

up an agreement, consider using contingency clauses. A contingency clause is just a bet that you make about the events that will unfold in the future.

They keep both you and the other person accountable for your decisions, opinions, and actions,

and they give you a way to value the future differently, so that each of you can walk away with a deal that you believe is a good thing,

given what you believe about the future right now. Now, of course, one, or maybe both of you, will be proven

wrong, but you'll be happy right up until the moment that you're flying car engine cuts off

at 30,000 feet, and happy is what's important, right? Now, one of your friends has been dying

to eat at Poke-Bole Express, the Japanese ramen restaurant that opened last week. Now, one of your friends has been dying to eat at Poke-A-Bole Express, the Japanese

ramen restaurant that opened last week. Now, they say that this ramen makes your dreams come

true. While it might be fun to have last night's dream about Warren Buffett, Kim Kardashian,

and Newt Gingrich come true, it might also usher in the apocalypse. Plus, you think the line

will be way too long at the restaurant and it will be at least

an hour's wait. But your friend disagrees and insists that after a week the line must have died

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