Life admin how I learned to do less, do better, and live more

"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. T...

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Main Author: Emens, Elizabeth F. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
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Summary: "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 Admin is the book that will teach us all how to do less of it, and to do it better"--
Life "admin" are the administrative tasks that have exploded in our busy lives. Scheduling. Planning. Paying. The busier our lives are, the more the invisible "admin" piles up on top of us. A working mother, Emens realized that mental labor was consuming her. To survive-- and to help others along the way-- she gathered favorite tips and tricks, admin confessions, and the secrets of admin-happy households. Get past the invisible quicksand that is holding you back and learn how to do less "admin"--And do it better. -- adapted from publisher info
Physical Description: xix, 261 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780544557239
0544557239
9781328606709
1328606708
Author Notes: ELIZABETH F. EMENS is an Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. She earned her BA and JD from Yale, and her PhD from King's College, Cambridge, where she was a Marshall Scholar. After becoming a master of Divorce Admin., she moved to New York City, where she now lives with her two children.