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Life Admin: How I Learned to Do Less, Do Better, and Live More (edição: 2019)

de Elizabeth F. Emens (Autor)

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"It's a relief just to talk about it. It's heaven to fix it: "admin," the administrative tasks that have exploded in our busy lives. Here's the book that will give you many hours of your life back. Scheduling. Planning. Paying. Using "self-service" websites. The busier our lives are, the more the invisible "admin"piles up on top of us. Elizabeth Emens was a working mother with two young children, swamped like so many of us, when she realized that mental labor was consuming her.She planned to conduct interviews and focus groups to find out how people cope with it all--and then the project became even more personal as she faced divorce and two relocations.Desperate to survive and to help others along the way, she gathered favorite tips and tricks, admin confessions, and the secrets of admin-happy households. Here is the one book you need in order to get past the invisible quicksand that is holding you back from the joys of living.Which type of "admin personality" are you?Do you know any Strategic Ball-Droppers?Do you suffer from Madmin Mind? Life Adminis the book that will teach us all how to do less of it, and to do it better"-- "It's a relief just to talk about it. It's heaven to fix it: "admin," the administrative chores that have exploded in our busy lives. Here's the book that will give you many hours of your life back"--… (mais)
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Título:Life Admin: How I Learned to Do Less, Do Better, and Live More
Autores:Elizabeth F. Emens (Autor)
Informação:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2019), 288 pages
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This is obviously the author’s very first book and I hope it will be her last. Content was thin and pretty poor, a few meagre pages on tips to do admin and the rest of rambling about how admin is making life hard to people. The only thing this book is based on is a focus group set up by the author and what came out of it. No expertise claimed by the author beyond having gone through a divorce, and no apparent research on the topic. Crazy that this can get published. ( )
  corporate_clone | Mar 17, 2024 |
A hint for those considering reading: The tips on dealing with life admin are in the added content in the back. I read all but 2-3 chapters, quickly, finding these hints, but noticed them also listed together in the Appendix. ( )
  aebooksandwords | Jul 29, 2023 |

I was hoping for more. The author is onto something there. Just went a different direction than I hoped.

Life admin also known as adulting? The author writing about something that is hard to quantify or even identify. Life Admin is the miscellaneous stuff we do in life. Bills, emissions test, dealing with insurance .... it's like the junk drawer of to do lists of life.

I do agree there should be more attempts at quantifying and identifying admin time. Who actually spends the time reading all the fine print from your financial institution and websites? Or trying to navigate cell phone plans. In terms of generation differences, I've spent more time researching for my 4 year old daughter's schooling than my mom did for my entire life time.

Admin is a new topic so the author can't find any studies that directly support her ideas. Lots of stories.




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  wellington299 | Feb 19, 2022 |
Admin, you either love it, hate it, or really hate it. Some of it is important, other elements less so, but ignoring it doesn’t make it go away however much you delay it. These things do have to be done though, you need to book appointments, fill out forms, pay bills, buy gifts and arrange things to make our lives a tiny bit easier

Elizabeth Emens was one of those who was becoming swamped with her life admin, running a busy home with two small children and all the things that that entails, was becoming a bit too much for her. So she started to see if there was an easier way, find the best shortcuts and tips from friends who were the model of efficiency in their own household. She collated them all together and has included them in this book.

There are some interesting things in here, but no more than I have got from other productivity and self-help books. There is quite a lot of her life story in here but seen from the context of the admin she was having to do. She does make some interesting points and comes up with lots of ideas of ways to improve your own admin workload. Hosting an admin party for close friends was one of the dafter suggestions in here though. Sadly, not sure I got that much from this book, I think I will just stick to my current practice of making a list and working my way through it. ( )
  PDCRead | Apr 6, 2020 |
From what I could see, she didn't learn to do less, do better, or live more. All I got was a lot of complaining. And enough about the Flexible Spending Account already. Apparently I am a weird mash-up of the "Admin Denier" and the "Admin Super-Doer." I am "on top of things" while at the same time am convinced that IT'S JUST NOT THAT IMPORTANT. ( )
  Tytania | Apr 3, 2019 |
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"It's a relief just to talk about it. It's heaven to fix it: "admin," the administrative tasks that have exploded in our busy lives. Here's the book that will give you many hours of your life back. Scheduling. Planning. Paying. Using "self-service" websites. The busier our lives are, the more the invisible "admin"piles up on top of us. Elizabeth Emens was a working mother with two young children, swamped like so many of us, when she realized that mental labor was consuming her.She planned to conduct interviews and focus groups to find out how people cope with it all--and then the project became even more personal as she faced divorce and two relocations.Desperate to survive and to help others along the way, she gathered favorite tips and tricks, admin confessions, and the secrets of admin-happy households. Here is the one book you need in order to get past the invisible quicksand that is holding you back from the joys of living.Which type of "admin personality" are you?Do you know any Strategic Ball-Droppers?Do you suffer from Madmin Mind? Life Adminis the book that will teach us all how to do less of it, and to do it better"-- "It's a relief just to talk about it. It's heaven to fix it: "admin," the administrative chores that have exploded in our busy lives. Here's the book that will give you many hours of your life back"--

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