Hakiri

This is a Saturday morning post so bear with me. I mean to talk about this topic for some time now and today I felt inspired to sit down and actually blog about it.

Anyway, personal automation… I truly believe that human beings are the bottlenecks of their lives. The most self-distractive and time consuming tasks are the repetitive decision making process for unimportant problems, procrastination and the inability to plan thoroughly in advance. It is not that we are incapable to do all that. It is more about the fact that these things are the everyday norm because humans are lazy beings in general.

However, these problems can be solved by removing yourself as the bottleneck. You don’t want to be the driver of the car but you want to give orders where you would like to go, i.e. you want to be the passenger. The only way to do that in a sensible way is by introducing a degree of automation in your lives.

If you find yourself doing something over and over again perhaps it is the time too look for a solution that will automate the problem. If there isn’t a solution, you are probably on verge of a breakthrough idea that could make you significantly richer. Both ways you win but the most importantly, you solve yet another problem in your live which you shouldn’t really worry about and can be completely outsourced and automated.

Here are a few ideas of what can be automated:

• Holidays, bookings, general entertainment – planning all of these things suck! they all require a lot of time, worries and thinking. Instead of doing all of this yourself, get a VA (virtual assistant) to sort all of this out for you.
• Personal finances – paying all the bills yourself is definitely not good for your health. It could be stressful to say at least. The best way to deal with it is to put everything on autopilot. All the money you owe should be taken out automatically on the first day you receive your salary. If the bill comes out every 3-4 months, than just do your average contribution every month. That will save you hustle at the end. Think about it, 30-40% of your salary go to the government anyway but you rarely think about it because because you don’t see all of these money coming in and going out of your bank account
• Food – food can get boring too, especially if you plan it. Most stores in UK have websites where you can purchase all the food that you need. Often, you can purchase the same ingredients you did last time. You don’t even need to do that. You can just a VA on autopilot to do it for you. On the geek side of things, you can write a script to calculate the basic possible way to use all the ingredients.

Once you do all of these you will see that automation is actually great. It almost feels like you’ve been taken care by your parents again but this time you are in charge of how things should happen. I personally haven’t fully reached such reaches but I am planning to improve in the near future.