Stop Drowning in Tedious Tasks by Taming Your Life Admin

The Art of Manliness

Filling out paperwork. Making travel reservations. Paying bills. Shopping for groceries. Returning packages.

These are all examples of life admin — the little tasks we have to do to keep our lives moving along.

Life admin is typically pretty tedious and annoying. But staying on top of it is essential to reducing the stress and chaos that would otherwise burden our relationships, muck up the gears of our schedules, and prevent us from participating in all the fun and fulfilling parts of life.

Fortunately, there are ways to better manage your life admin. Here to share some of them is Dinah Rowe-Roberts, the co-host of the Life Admin Life Hacks podcast and the co-author of a book of the same name. Today on the show, Dinah explains what lists you should be keeping, including the 10-minute time killers list, why you should do a regular “hour of power” to stay on top of things, how to schedule your life admin, how to keep track of and divvy up chores between you and your spouse, how to get all your meal planning and grocery shopping done in less than 15 minutes a week, how to streamline your kids’ schedules and your vacation planning, and much more.

Resources Related to the Podcast

• AoM article on shadow work
• AoM article and podcast on how to have a weekly marriage meeting
• AoM article on how to have a weekly family meeting
• AoM article on how to use Todoist to get things done
• AoM article on how to manage your lifeadmin
• AoM article on how and why to have a reset day
• AoM article on 8 lists you should be keeping (besides the to-do list)

Connect With Dinah Rowe-Roberts

• The LifeAdminLife Hacks website
• LifeAdminLife Hacks on IG
• Dinah on LinkedIn