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Modern Mentor

509 - You've Been Writing 'Thank You' Notes All Wrong

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3720 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Do onerous follow-up tasks in advance, when your motivation is at its peak. Read the transcript at Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows: www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts FOLLOW GET-IT-DONE GUY Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetItDoneGuy Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetItDoneGuy

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0:00.0

This is Stevea Robbins.

0:01.6

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

0:09.1

It's summer, and we all know what time of year's summer is.

0:12.3

It's wedding time.

0:13.7

So if you want to subsume yourself into a four-legged, four-eyed amalgamation of merged identity, this is your chance.

0:19.5

Grab that girlfriend, boyfriend, intersex

0:21.2

for inter-polyamorous family unit, pop the question, and soon you two, get it, you two, can tie

0:27.5

the knot at your very own wedding. Weddings were blast. You dress up in fancy clothes, you

0:32.6

attend an incredible feast, and you gorge on delicious food. And then you and your newly minted schmupy go home

0:39.1

and enjoy all the free stuff you got from your friends. It's great. You can even go super classy

0:44.9

and give every single guest their very own can of cheese spray. It will be the most memorable

0:49.3

wedding ever. The downside, however, is that you have to write thank you notes for all those nice presents.

0:55.9

But let's face it, when the wedding is over, you have a honeymoon to go on, and then a life

0:59.2

to live.

1:00.2

Who wants to write thank you notes?

1:02.2

Sheesh!

1:03.2

You're less motivated because you already have the stuff!

1:06.2

The robotic auto-vac is busily vacuuming up your dust bunnies as well as your pet

1:10.5

cat Fluffy. auto vac is busily vacuuming up your dust bunnies as well as your pet cat fluffy. We love

1:11.5

fluffy, but hey, solve the cat hair problem at the source, right? The voice-activated internet-connected

1:16.7

smoke alarm is industriously sending your location data back to the NSA, and the turnip twadler is

1:22.1

already twaddling the first few turnips. Why in the world would you want to take time out of this

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