Category: Life hacks

Hire a personal assistant

I can’t begin to tell you how much I love this idea as well as how practical it sounds…
From Lifehack.org:

How many of us have wished at times that we could clone ourselves? Delegating to a personal assistant is a simple way to reclaim hours of your time and free you up to do what you are best at doing. Think this is not for you? Think again and read on! We’re going to cover how to afford it, how to find one, how to pay them, and ideas for what they can do.

Just imagine paying someone $28 a week to do things like:

  • Groceries and other household purchasing
  • Car washes, oil changes and other car maintenance
  • Watch and jewelry repairs
  • Dry cleaning and alterations pickups
  • Shopping returns and exchanges
  • Prescription pickups
  • Video store and library returns
  • Bank deposits
  • Pet-sitting, pet care, taking animals to the vet
  • House-sitting while you travel
  • Business card entry, spreadsheet maintenance, or other simple data entry
  • Calling for reservations or making other arrangements on your behalf
  • Scanning, filing, shredding
  • Transporting items to and from home, office, or school
  • Transporting children
  • Dishes, laundry, straightening up the house

$28 a week to reclaim two hours of your time. Not a bad trade off. I think this could also be great for churches with very limited budgets and staff.
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Attend church for 52 weeks in a row

Blogger Kyle Pott at Lifehack.org has put together a list of ways to help you overcome the urge to sleep in on Sunday mornings and attend church every week for a year.

I think it’s safe to say that many people have the desire to attend church more consistently and improve their spiritual life. On this date last year, I was not a member of a church and I rarely attended any church services. On February 26, 2006 I set a personal goal for myself to attend church for an entire year without missing a single week. This coming Sunday, will make it 52 weeks in a row that I attended church without skipping even once. I will give you tips on how to find a church, and how I to find the motivation to attend every week for an entire year.

His list suggests you:

  • Keep in mind that your church won’t be perfect
  • Get to know the members
    Get involved with the church
  • Substitute Saturday night for Friday night
  • Promise someone
  • Go with a friend or loved one
  • Rationalize the time

What have you done to make sure you’re in church every week? Or do you even see a need?

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Sell your photography

Lifehacker shares a link that gives some tips on how to sell your photography.
Get Rich Slowly basically focuses on selling stock photography with the help of sites like Istockphoto.com. Istockphoto is a cool site but its gotten more and more exclusive as it’s grown. They’ve also become a lot pickier. A number of photos I posted originally and were accepted have been removed and newer photos I’ve submitted have been rejected. But there’s still money to be made if you have the time to spend.
Or you can go the (semi)pro route like my friends Shari and Smiley Alfaro who have their own photography business on the side.