This is Steveer Robbins.

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

We all have things we want in life without knowing exactly how to get them.

So a lot of times we don't even get started.

People say, make a plan, then take baby steps and you'll get there.

Well, that's great, except if we don't actually know how to get

where we want to go, well, we don't make a plan and often we don't get started. But scientists have

discovered something exciting. It turns out that plans are useful even if they don't tell us exactly

what to do. Plans aren't just a roadmap from point A to point B. It turns out that they do way

more. Plans give us confidence, motivation, and A to point B. It turns out that they do way more.

Plans give us confidence, motivation, and results,

even if we get their steps completely wrong,

which makes plans useful in far more places than you'd think.

So to be confident, motivated, and resultified,

use plans, even imperfect ones, everywhere.

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Eric Barker.

He's the author of the Barking Up the Wrong Tree blog,

and he's also the only person whose newsletter and blog I read regularly.

He turns research-based results about psychology into actions that we can all take,

and he taught me something important about plans.

Plans are how you get unstuck, and it's not because you have to have the right plan. Simply having a plan, whether it's accurate or not, is enough to make

us feel confident and get us moving. Our brains are scared of the unknown, so as with anything

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