One of the main tenants of Lifestyle Design is reclaiming lost and stolen time. It is amazing how much time we waste on routine and trivial chores. Tasks like arranging doctor appointment, researching what new camera to buy, making dinner reservations and even paying bills online can eat up huge amounts of time.
This last week I have been experimenting with AskSunday.com, an online virtual assistant outsourcing firm based in New York. Ask Sunday has a $50 per month plan in which they will perform 30 tasks taking up to 20 minutes each. So far I have had Ask Sunday arrange an appointment with my hairdresser, set up a ½ day Kite Surfing lesson for my wife and I, schedule time with my trike instructor, purchase Madonna tickets, arrange for dinner reservations on two occasions and set up my annual physical with my doctor. All of this was coordinated in 4 e-mails to Ask Sunday. Each task was performed to my satisfaction and the fun part is that I had my Ask Sunday assistant identify himself as my personal valet as he made each connection.
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