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

Today, we're going to talk about how being boring can be a huge advantage. Big corporations. We just love big corporations. They turn everything they touch into mountains and mountains of wondrous prosperity and rainbows and platinum yachts, at least for the shareholders.

When they touch employees, they turn them into nameless, faceless cogs doing meaningless busy work until the day they can be replaced by robots.

And even better is when they touch customers.

If they could, they would turn us into paralyzed lumps of flesh connected to feeding tubes, mindlessly clicking our little Amazon Reorder stuff buttons until we shrivel and die.

Ah, 21st Century Paradise.

I feel all warm and fuzzy just thinking about it.

Although, that feeling could just be a fungal infection.

While we long for the days of the mom-and-pop stores where everybody knows your name,

those are gone. Even in the places where they aren't gone, real estate prices are going up so

quickly that soon mom-and-pop will be replaced by Walmart outlet number 56,813. The personal

touch will be gone forever unless you start being boring. I'm boring, and you can be too. Life is lumpy. In some areas,

you can be fabulously interesting, and in others, you can be fabulously boring. Take me, for example,

I co-wrote a musical about personal productivity and zombies. That's interesting. And 99% of the

time, I work out at the same gym, shop at the same bookstore, eat at the same restaurants, and order the same dishes. 99.999% of the time, I work out at the same gym, shop at the same bookstore, eat at the same restaurants, and order the same dishes 99.999% of the time,

that's boring. In fact, that's really boring.

But the thing that's been so surprising is how very useful it is.

You see people over and over.

When you frequent the same places a lot, you see the people who work there over and over and over.

It may not be your intention, but repeated contact is how relationships form.

On the 20th or 30th visit, you read their name tag.

And by the time you've been there 60 or 70 times, you work up the courage to say,

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