In a previous post I discuss how I outsourced my cooking for $60 a week. I decided to try an experiment with a virtual assistant, to see if I could effectively outsource parts of my digital life. I also compared my solo virtual assistant to a professionally managed, concierge style virtual assistant team.
I imagined I would be able to save some time with a virtual assistant. Further, I hypothesized that the team would do a better job than my solo assistant – but would be more expensive, and it would end up being a decision based on value provided.
Was I right? Read on to find out the results.
Each week I put aside money for my savings, investments and other expenses before spending any of it. If there is not enough to pay the bills, I cut down on excess spending on extraneous things, but I always put aside money for my long term investments before anything else.
To make sure I put my money where it needs to be, I pay myself first.
If you can pay yourself first with your money – why not with your time? Three weeks ago, I began doing exactly that. Read on to find out about my new experiment about altering my life schedule by waking up early, and focusing on personal goals in the morning.
Various authors and speakers encourage writing down concrete goals, and use as evidence a study conducted on students in the 1979 Harvard MBA program. They point to the results of that study (where the 3 percent of written goal setters earned 10 times as much as the other 97 percent of the class combined) as proof and inspiration for students and readers.
The study has been quoted in seminars and books by Zig Ziglar, Anthony Robbins, Brian Tracy and many other motivational and personal development speakers – but is the study true, or an urban legend? Find out in this feature report.
The Harvard MBA program is extremely competitive, and Students who make it past the application process are typically standouts, and already fairly successful by most traditional definitions – they have an undergraduate degree, typically three to five years of work experience and were considered suitable for acceptance into the Harvard Business School.
The average Harvard MBA graduate starts at $115K with a $20K signing bonus. Nonetheless, some graduates of the Harvard MBA program end up being MUCH more successful than the other in the long run. What is their secret?
What is metawork? Metawork, executed properly, is work done to make sure you can effectively do your work.
Sometimes we THINK we’re working, when really all we’re doing is preparing for work we intend to do someday – work we may never get around to doing. Learning better ways of doing different tasks, testing out different software or tools to do those tasks – but not doing those tasks themselves
Are you guilty of using metawork as an excuse to avoid real work?
