Outsourcing your life, and the 4 hour work week
This article spurred a long night of reading about virtual personal assistants and other ways of “lightening the load” of some of the tasks we all have to do in our lives. I like the concepts. There are some things I can probably do that would help me make the most of my time. In fact, I can think of a couple of tasks I’ve performed in the last 2-3 months that I specifically thought “I really should hire someone to do this so I can get on with my life.” Comparison shopping for my new computer comes to mind. Maybe even some Christmas shopping. I’m also interested in looking more seriously at having someone prepare and deliver a few meals to the house on a semi-regular basis.
In the end, though, most of what I found convinced me that at this point in my life I can’t really justify a personal assistant, virtual or otherwise. It’s not worth the money to me for most of the things I’d be willing to have them do. Now, if I had a side-business that I was running in addition to my job, I’d have plenty of things for an assistant to do for me, and I’d probably easily justify the relatively minimal expenses involved.
For now, I’ll try to reduce the frequency with which I read emails and get better about organizing my day. That should get a little easier once we hire someone to take the tasks I acquired when my former co-worker left the company last year (and the process is finally moving on that!!!!).
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