This is Steve Robbins. Welcome to the good it done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today we're going to be discussing self-motivation. I had a horrible, terrible, dramatic, soul-shattering incident recently.

Names have been changed to protect the innocent, the not-so-innocent will enjoy no such protections.

A company approached me in January to write some custom articles and blog posts.

The money was good.

I believed in the company's products, and my calendar was free.

Now, if you got an offer that worked in terms of time, money, and your belief in the product,

would you take it?

Of course.

Working alone, things happen as fast as they can, so it seemed reasonable

that the articles would only take a day or two to get into final form. But other people

work at different rates. The people on the other end of the deal were part of a large corporation.

They had other stakeholders, they were dealing with other authors, there were contracts to be signed, W-9s to fill out.

By the time everything was confirmed and we were ready to move forward, it was March.

And at this point, my schedule is filled up.

I was running a test of my get-it-done groups, and I was up to my eyeballs and helping my cohort become amazingly productive.

The articles really just slipped out of my mind.

I wrote and submitted them in my

spare time. The company would write about needing editorial changes or they would want custom

tracking links to measure click-throughs and, you know, I'd go ahead, I'd add it to my to do

list. But I wouldn't actually get to it unless there was a break in the get it done group.

And by the time the articles got submitted and tracked, it was four months after the initial

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