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Why You Should Delegate Your Tasks and Simplify Your Life
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Many people struggle with procrastination or laziness and look for solutions in various courses, books, or techniques that claim to cure them. However, most of these methods are just variations of the same advice: "do NOT be lazy". This is something you already know, and it does not help you much. As Kabir said: "Kaal Kare So Aaj Kar, Aaj Kare So UbPal Mein Pralaya Hoyegi, Bahuri Karoge Kub".
In this post, I will offer a different and scientifically grounded perspective on procrastination/laziness. I will use economic terms to explain why you procrastinate and how you can overcome it.
Procrastination means that you value your leisure more than the other alternatives you have. For example, if you were super rich, you would not have to do any work that you do not enjoy. You would hire people to do everything for you, and you would focus on the most important and interesting things in your life. You would also have more time for your family, hobbies, and vacations. You would not be called lazy for doing this, because you would be living the life of your dreams.
Unfortunately, most of us are not super rich. But we can still use the same principle of delegation to reduce our workload and increase our productivity. We can outsource the tasks that are less important or less enjoyable to us, and focus on the ones that matter the most. This way, we can free up our time and energy for the things that we really care about.
How can we do this? Here are some suggestions:
- Hire domestic help or use apps like UC to take care of your household chores.
- Find a reliable home delivery service or a cook for your food needs.
- Use agents or websites like Jeeves to handle your paperwork.
- Move to a serviced apartment if you are single instead of saving money by sharing an apartment with your colleagues.
- Have a laundry service for your clothes.
Of course, these services will cost money. But you can save money by downsizing your life and getting rid of the things that you do not need or use. Imagine that you are traveling to Leeds or Cardiff (or London) for a month for your IT job. What would you pack in your suitcase? As a man living in a service apartment, you probably only need:
- 4 sets of office wears
- 4 sets of home clothes
- A pair of nice shoes
- Toiletries
- A folder with documents
- Phone-iPad-laptop-noise cancelling headphones
- An analog watch
That's it. You do not need to spend money on smoking, drinking, parties, theaters, store bought coffee etc. Instead, you can take real vacations once in a while, even if by yourself.
Now that you have simplified your life and delegated your tasks, you can focus on your work, career, relationships, health (jog whenever you get free time). If you have ample free time, you can also learn something new that interests you. It can be related to art, finance, programming, engineering, economics, or anything else. Avoid watching TV, movies, sports etc as much as possible. They are passive and addictive forms of entertainment. Instead, use audio entertainment such as music, podcasts, audiobooks etc.
This approach may not guarantee that you will become rich and successful. But it will certainly help you avoid wasting your time and energy on things that do not matter to you. It will also help you enjoy the things that do matter to you more. The key to success and happiness is not wanting anything other than the few great quality things you already own.
If you want to understand the economics of delegation/outsourcing, I recommend that you read page 8 of this article: econbriefs.pdf (economist.com)
It explains the Stopler-Samuleson theorem which is relevant to this discussion. I have also attached a screenshot of the most important paragraph below:
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this is a very bad advice if your time is worth less or you are not using the time left into upscaling your self
doing these small tasks can help you relax if you deal with them in the right mindset
you need a system
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Paise kaun dega Inn luxuries ke liye?
Although just to put things in perspective - 5 helpers of any kind would cost you around 75k-1.5L/month
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Ramta_Jogi wrote:Paise kaun dega Inn luxuries ke liye?
Although just to put things in perspective - 5 helpers of any kind would cost you around 75k-1.5L/month
How are you distributing money and how you came at this amount?
Domestic help for full day for everything (cleaning, cooking,laundry) comes at 12-20k depends on area.
No idea about agents from jeeves.
Misleneous (spelling nhi aati) added upto 10k.
So total will not cross 40k i gurss
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kartikxxx wrote:How are you distributing money and how you came at this amount?
Domestic help for full day for everything (cleaning, cooking,laundry) comes at 12-20k depends on area.
No idea about agents from jeeves.
Misleneous (spelling nhi aati) added upto 10k.
So total will not cross 40k i gurss
In Hyderabad, serviced apartment will cost around 20k, they do everything for you including food. Everything else can be done using agents. Agents cost 750-1500 depending on what needs to be done.
"doing these small tasks can help you relax if you deal with them in the right mindset"
Just go to the gym of your serviced apartment and run or take a drive to the closest waterbody and jog with some peaceful music. The amount of endorphins jogging releases is unmatched.
Small tasks are often not relaxing. Small tasks done in large scale is the real solution. Just imagine preparing a cup of tea for yourself. You have to have an electric stove/gas connection. you need pots and pans and cups, water bottle, you need fresh milk and refrigerator to store that milk, you need tea leaves, sugar and wardobes to properly store them, you need scissors, spoon, strainer. You need a sink to wash things. Then you need to boil water and time it. You need to add measured amount of tea leaves and boil it for some right amount of time, add milk and wait for the right amount of time to soak. You need to strain the tea leaving lumps of now dirty looking tea leaves in the pot. You need to add sugar and stir using the spoon. Your drinking tea takes 5 minutes. Now you need to properly trash the tea leaves, clean the cup, spoon, pot with huge amount of residuals. You need dish washing kit for that, liquid and scrubber. Then eventually take the trash out. This is just for one cup of tea. Else you can just pay your local chaiwala 10 bucks for not having to do the hassle. Even better, you can totally skip on the tea, have tea coffee at work and plenty of water at home.
Having a cup of tea adds tea leaves, sugar, fresh milk, fridge, wardrobe, sink, storage containers/clips, water bottle, pot, cup, spoon, electric stove/gas oven + gas connection + gas bill payment, keeping exact time, precise measurements of water-tea-milk-sugar, dish washing liquid, scrubber, trash bag + taking trash out etc in your life. I am sure I missed a few. That cup of tea is a trap my friend. That cup of tea is keeping your brain constantly busy, taking time off from more pleasurable things. You do NOT need that cup. You just need the relaxation, have plenty of water and jog my friend.
If anyone thinks I am an ass, just ask you family, wife or mother, how harrowing making a cup of tea is. I am sure I am missing many steps in the tea making process, for example, I did NOT include tea sugar milk buying process, milk even has to be bought semi-daily.
THINK. STOP QUOTING OTHERS VIDEOS. THINK FOR YOURSELF. DO NOT DELEGATE THINKING TO YOUTUBE. DELEGATE MENIAL HOUSEHOLD CHORES MY FRIEND. YOU ARE JUST DELEGATING THE WRONG THINGS.
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Nice post. Haven't slept in two days, kab se soch raha hun thodi der so leta hun. Is post ko padh ke, procrastinate naa karte hue so hi jaata hun... In the arms of Morpheus, here I come.. 😴😴😴Some of the content of this post I have read as comments in others post so it seems more like compilation of thoughts
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kartikxxx wrote:How are you distributing money and how you came at this amount?
Domestic help for full day for everything (cleaning, cooking,laundry) comes at 12-20k depends on area.
No idea about agents from jeeves.
Misleneous (spelling nhi aati) added upto 10k.
So total will not cross 40k i gurss
Cook, driver, property caretaker, full day maid for cleaning house.... Pretty much 15K each (in Manali).
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Caretaker? U will live there no! The full day maid also do care taking.
Ps - if u are looking for a care taker, hire me, i will do driving, cooking, cleaning, care taking all in one on just 50k
Ramta_Jogi wrote:Full day maid will do cooking also?Cook, driver, property caretaker, full day maid for cleaning house.... Pretty much 15K each (in Manali).
Caretaker? U will live there no! The full day maid also do care taking.
Ps - if u are looking for a care taker, hire me, i will do driving, cooking, cleaning, care taking all in one on just 50k
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Ramta_Jogi wrote:Contact exchange, they provide helpers at 12-20k for full day, even some for full day n night, i don't know where u are checking prices.Wow! So cheap. Only in dreams. Pls send contact number. I'll save a 100K in 4 houses.
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I think some people are constantly trying to frighten others quoting big money. You do NOT need any full time maid or such thing. A part time maid at 4-5k, living close to offce in a serviced apartment (not PG, btw) as a bachelor or a regular apartment as a family, self-driven scooter to office for bachelors and self-driven car as family, a reasonable food delivery for bachelors and a cook for a family, a laundry service (dhobi) for a bachelor or an washing machine + 5/item presswala as a family, agents for paperworks (750-1500/assignment), and heavily downsizing your life is the idea. It will cost you little extra than you are paying now. The first thing is to get rid of everything useless and pretend as if you are travelling to London or so for your IT job. And most importantly living as close as possible to the work.
It is NOT the extra money. It is the mindset. As I described above: Making a cup of tea adds tea leaves, sugar, fresh milk, fridge, wardrobe, sink, storage containers/clips, water bottle, pot, cup, spoon, electric stove/gas oven + gas connection + gas bill payment, keeping exact time, precise measurements of water-tea-milk-sugar, dish washing liquid, scrubber, shopping for tea, sugar timely, shopping for milk semi-daily, keeping track of freshness of milk, cleaning pots-cup-spoon, trash bag + taking trash out etc in your life. Do NOT fall for that trap.
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saucap wrote:Nice post. Haven't slept in two days, kab se soch raha hun thodi der so leta hun. Is post ko padh ke, procrastinate naa karte hue so hi jaata hun... In the arms of Morpheus, here I come.. 😴😴😴Some of the content of this post I have read as comments in others post so it seems more like compilation of thoughts
Bhai me hi apke agent ban jata hun. Fata fat candies de dijie, me aapke liye so jaunga. 🐒🐒🐒😂👻
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sb120458 wrote:I think some people are constantly trying to frighten others quoting big money. You do NOT need any full time maid or such thing. A part time maid at 4-5k, living close to offce in a serviced apartment (not PG, btw) as a bachelor or a regular apartment as a family, self-driven scooter to office for bachelors and self-driven car as family, a reasonable food delivery for bachelors and a cook for a family, a laundry service (dhobi) for a bachelor or an washing machine + 5/item presswala as a family, agents for paperworks (750-1500/assignment), and heavily downsizing your life is the idea. It will cost you little extra than you are paying now. The first thing is to get rid of everything useless and pretend as if you are travelling to London or so for your IT job. And most importantly living as close as possible to the work.
It is NOT the extra money. It is the mindset. As I described above: Making a cup of tea adds tea leaves, sugar, fresh milk, fridge, wardrobe, sink, storage containers/clips, water bottle, pot, cup, spoon, electric stove/gas oven + gas connection + gas bill payment, keeping exact time, precise measurements of water-tea-milk-sugar, dish washing liquid, scrubber, shopping for tea, sugar timely, shopping for milk semi-daily, keeping track of freshness of milk, cleaning pots-cup-spoon, trash bag + taking trash out etc in your life. Do NOT fall for that trap.
If pocket can afford it then there is nothing wrong in outsourcing labour intensive tasks in exchange of money. People ll have more time to their disposal.
And decluttering is a real need for many.
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sb120458 wrote:paisa ho to sb outsource kr dete h, time bachake kon ambani bna h, tm h bn jao btaana phirI think some people are constantly trying to frighten others quoting big money. You do NOT need any full time maid or such thing. A part time maid at 4-5k, living close to offce in a serviced apartment (not PG, btw) as a bachelor or a regular apartment as a family, self-driven scooter to office for bachelors and self-driven car as family, a reasonable food delivery for bachelors and a cook for a family, a laundry service (dhobi) for a bachelor or an washing machine + 5/item presswala as a family, agents for paperworks (750-1500/assignment), and heavily downsizing your life is the idea. It will cost you little extra than you are paying now. The first thing is to get rid of everything useless and pretend as if you are travelling to London or so for your IT job. And most importantly living as close as possible to the work.
It is NOT the extra money. It is the mindset. As I described above: Making a cup of tea adds tea leaves, sugar, fresh milk, fridge, wardrobe, sink, storage containers/clips, water bottle, pot, cup, spoon, electric stove/gas oven + gas connection + gas bill payment, keeping exact time, precise measurements of water-tea-milk-sugar, dish washing liquid, scrubber, shopping for tea, sugar timely, shopping for milk semi-daily, keeping track of freshness of milk, cleaning pots-cup-spoon, trash bag + taking trash out etc in your life. Do NOT fall for that trap.
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noobDealer wrote:This approach may not guarantee that you will become rich and successful. But it will certainly help you avoid wasting your time and energy on things that do not matter to you.
paisa ho to sb outsource kr dete h, time bachake kon ambani bna h, tm h bn jao btaana phir
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