In Part 1 of this series, I shared how I streamlined tasks in my personal life and automated in several places. In Part 2 I discussed alternatives to hiring a Virtual Assistant. In this installment, I’ll address using the 4-Hour Workweek at home.

One of the overarching purposes of applying the 4-Hour Workweek is to reduce the amount of time you spend on tasks that aren’t important or interesting so that you can focus on activities that enrich your life in some way. This is really important to keep in mind when trying to streamline things at home.

Now, in a perfect world, I would just go out and buy myself a robot maid like Rosie from The Jetsons. Then, my laundry would always be done, my kitchen would be clean, and I would have a sandwich waiting for me when I got home from work. Unfortunately, technology has not yet brought us flying cars or the automatic shower conveyor belt (actually, that one didn’t look so fun ;)), so I’ve had to find other ways to adapt. In a nutshell, I’ve analyzed a lot of tasks and broken them up by:

* What to Batch
* What to Do Immediately, and
* What to Outsource