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

This is my last episode, is The Get It Done Guy, and I'm going to be handing the reins over to the wonderful Rachel Cook. Hello, Rachel. Hello, it's Deaver.

Now, I know that it sounds like I'm interviewing Rachel, but in fact, before your very eyes, we are going to switch roles so she becomes the get it done guy and I become the interviewee.

Take it away, Rachel.

Okay. And in fairness, it's probably really before their very ears that I'm going to take the reins.

But either way, I am ready to take the reins. But either way,

I am ready to sew my oats. So let's go ahead and dive in. So, Steve, what I would love to do with

our time today is tap into the wealth of wisdom and insights that you have provided to this audience

over many years. And I would love to start with a story from your brain

about productivity. Can you give us an example, an experience you had, a lesson that you learned

over the years? Sure. One of the more interesting experiences I had is several years ago,

I went to work for a company, and I was put in

charge of putting up a new website for a particular project that we were working on. This was going to be

the such-and-such initiative, and I was the one who would create the online website. Now,

let's be real here. I have created so many websites in my life. It takes me about

10 minutes to get a new WordPress site up and running, and then if you actually want some

content in it, great, that'll take me a few days. But basically, this is something that I can do

so fast that it will make your headspin. So I sat down, went into my office and thought,

puff, this will be easy. I'll just knock this out in an afternoon. And it took six and a half

weeks. Now, being the get it done guy, I was paying really close attention and asking why.

Why is this thing that I know for a fact is a day activity because I've done it 15 times,

how is it possible that this can take an entire six weeks? And what I discovered, as I just

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