Coaching practices for Outsource Chores Happiness
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I just spent another hundred dollars on stuff I’ll stop noticing in a week, and meanwhile there’s a dreaded chore I could pay to get off my plate but won’t
- I spend my weekends slogging through chores I genuinely hate
- My days vanish into recurring admin that anyone could do, and the work that only I can do never gets reached
- Someone hits a snag, brings it to me, I say "leave it with me," and somehow the task I delegated is back on my desk
- There’s a low hum of resentment building in me about who does what around the house
Practices that may help
- Outsource tasks you dislike to buy time affluence
Paying to offload dreaded tasks raises happiness more than spending the same money on material goods.
Time Smart: Buying Back Your Time Affluence - Buy back your time
Spend money to outsource tasks you dislike, freeing hours for what matters.
Time Affluence, Made Practical - Outsource personal and business tasks with a virtual assistant
Hand off any recurring task a written process can describe to a skilled assistant.
Lifestyle Design, Made Practical - Resist upward (reverse) delegation
Don’t let the task you delegated jump back onto your desk the first time it gets hard.
Effective Delegation, Made Practical - Share tasks equitably — and feel equitable about it
Divide practical responsibilities in a way both partners experience as fair.
Relationship Maintenance Behaviors - Tackle one avoided task per week
Schedule one thing you have been avoiding — completing it relieves more energy than the task cost.
Pleasant Events Scheduling, Made Practical - Allocate part of your values budget to others
Prosocial spending — money spent on others — generates more lasting satisfaction per dollar than equivalent self-spending.
Values-Based Spending, Made Practical - Spend time on activities that feel both meaningful and enjoyable
Activities that are both meaningful and enjoyable produce the highest time happiness — aim for the overlap.
Time Affluence Practices (Cassie Holmes) - Bundle the should with social connection
Add a social element to an avoided behavior to make it rewarding in the moment through connection.
Temptation Bundling, Made Practical - Prosocial Spending: Why Giving Boosts Happiness
Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton’s research found that spending money on others — "prosocial spending" — reliably produces more happiness than spending the same amount on oneself, across income levels and cultures. The effect is real and replicates, though it is not unlimited: how you give matters as much as whether you give.
Related concerns
- How To Deal With An Im Not Paid Enough To Do This Task Argument
Spend money to outsource tasks you dislike, freeing hours for what matters.
Buy back your time
- Prosocial Time Spending
Prosocial spending — money spent on others — generates more lasting satisfaction per dollar than equivalent self-spending.
Allocate part of your values budget to others
- When Time Affluence Buy Back Time
Spend money to outsource tasks you dislike, freeing hours for what matters.
- Discretionary Time Happiness
Buying back time only raises happiness if the freed time goes to high-return activities.
Invest freed time in activities with documented well-being returns
- Does Buying Things Make You Happy
Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton’s research found that spending money on others — "prosocial spending" — reliably produces more happiness than spending the same amount on oneself, across income levels and cultures. The effect is real and replicates, though it is not unlimited: how you give matters as much as whether you give.
- Four Hour Work Week Outsourcing
Hand off any recurring task a written process can describe to a skilled assistant.
Outsource personal and business tasks with a virtual assistant
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