Coaching practices for I Spend My Weekends Slogging Through Chores I Genuinely Hate Cleaning Errands the Laundry Mountain and I Could Afford to Pay Someone to Take Some of it Off My Plate but it Feels Indulgent Even Though It's Eating the Only Free Hours I Have
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I spend my weekends slogging through chores I genuinely hate
- 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
- My calendar is wall-to-wall with standing meetings and recurring yeses I agreed to ages ago and quietly dread now
- My days vanish into recurring admin that anyone could do, and the work that only I can do never gets reached
- My calendar is packed with standing obligations I only keep out of guilt or habit, and even when I’m not doing them they sit in the back of my mind
Practices that may help
- Buy back your time
Spend money to outsource tasks you dislike, freeing hours for what matters.
Time Affluence, Made Practical - 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 - Declutter your calendar, not just your closet
Apply the same "does this earn its keep" test to obligations and subscriptions.
Minimalism, 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 - Pruning commitments, not just things
Apply simplicity to your calendar and obligations, not only your closet.
Voluntary Simplicity, Made Practical - Systematically process the backlog
Work through old, unfinished tasks in order rather than perpetually re-triaging them.
Do It Tomorrow, Made Practical - 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 - Quadrant 4: eliminate it
Neither urgent nor important — distractions and busywork — get deleted, not done.
The Eisenhower Matrix, Made Practical - Find the Sisyphus move in your own work
Identify a repetitive, seemingly pointless task — and choose to inhabit it fully rather than escaping it.
Absurdism and the Practice of Meaning Despite - Cut costs mercilessly on things you don’t value
Spend extravagantly on your priorities and ruthlessly eliminate the rest.
Conscious Spending Plan, Made Practical
Related concerns
- How Do You Deal With Feeling Overwhelmed By All Of Your Obligations
Regularly review what you have agreed to and honestly eliminate what you cannot do.
Audit and renegotiate your commitments
- Outsource Chores Happiness
Paying to offload dreaded tasks raises happiness more than spending the same money on material goods.
Outsource tasks you dislike to buy time affluence
- When Task Aversion Model Monitor Procrastination Health Costs
Chronic procrastination is a health behavior — the long-term costs extend beyond missed deadlines.
Acknowledge the cumulative health and well-being costs of chronic delay
- 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
- How To Cope With Working A Job You Hate
Use problem-focused coping when you can change the situation; emotion-focused coping when you cannot.
Match coping mode to what is actually controllable
- 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
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