Well, I´ve just rushed off to Spain for a quick break from Thursday until Monday with my friends. As I am self-employed, I have e-mailed my clients asking them to forward all requests to a trusted business partner in the interim. Having read 4HWW on the airplane, I had thought about where outsourcing may have helped.
I certainly think that having my inbox and phone managed would have helped greatly, as a number of people had tried to contact me unsuccessfully with some trivial and non-trivial enquiries – some people who weren´t included on my list that I had e-mailed. It would have been reassuring to have an SMS digest of the e-mails received throughout the day, so I wouldn´t feel chained to a computer.
Secondly, I could have organised better by getting some Euro currency at an ideal rate, and that would be an ideal job for an outsourced assistant. The same for taxi´s – luckily the hostel was managed by my friend but for the sake of freeing up time, all of this stuff could have been taken care of.
There is one niggle however. Refining the efficient use of time is one thing, but I do derive enjoyment from planning. Filling the new potential time prompts the requirement to have the new time to be of good value. Time is a precious, so if I´m going to potentially be freeing up a lot of it, it´d be good to have it be used in a very spiritually fulfilling way. I don´t have children yet, but perhaps when that day comes, having an abundance of free time I imagine would be incredibly fulfilling, until then, as and when the time becomes available, I´ll spend some time thinking about what to do.
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