4 Wise Ways To Become Available for Everyone and Shut the Complaining Mouths
Don’t spend another day doing the same shit.
Open your mobile, and you’ll see disappointing messages from:
- Your parents
- Partner (optional)
- Child (optional)
- Co-workers
- Friends
- Employer, director
The list goes on and on.
Disappointing messages multiply when you start a passive income, marry someone or have more kids. Responsibilities increase. One person can never be available for everyone. As life demands, a person needs to be everywhere all the time.
Tell me honestly, the thought of having 24 hours to ourselves ever amazed you?
We spent 26 years of our life sleeping. What if we don’t? That’s the same case with everyone. Some people are good at being available for everyone, and you’re (at this point) not even close.
Imagine: with new technology and tactics, you can make your waking hours worthwhile and become available for everyone.
You can please your family, friends, and even your customers. You must apply these four steps and witness your life turn from barren leaves to spring fields.
Let’s get started.
1. Multitasking 2.0
Our day is filled with the following:
- Important tasks: job-related
- Fun tasks: watching Netflix, painting, and cooking
- Important deadline tasks: assignments and presentations.
- Sleeping: 8 hours a day
- Eating: 3x a day
Combine your relaxing and essential tasks. Increase the quality of your actions instead of filling up your plate.
Like:
Simple shower → shower with bath oils
Napping → apply facemask/ drink coffee before
Eating → think and use the time to focus
Commuting → watch Netflix
Instead of doing these four actions separately, combine these with your everyday acts.
Enhance your time management skills.
Most times, we can make perfect use of our duration by doing the right thing at the right time.
Daniel Pink practices the same principle in his book “When.” According to him, time matters. He wrote:
“Instead of waking up and drinking coffee, drink coffee before you nap. Caffeine takes 25 mins to enter your system, and so does a nap. When you wake up, you’ll feel fresh.”
To make the most of your time doing important things, cut down the time for useless things.
Instead, increase the quality of your actions twofold.
2. Use tools
Tools are a brilliant way to keep track of your daily goals.
Use these free tools to keep track of your time:
- Sync calendar with any smartwatch
- Gmail reminders
- WhatsApp reminders
- Siri
Advanced free tools:
- Calendly: a free online appointment scheduling software
- Clockify: tracks time and activities
- Bookafy: shows real-time availability
Sync Calendly with your calendar. Others will know when you’re available and can schedule a time for the available slot.
Scheduling tools eliminate confusion and double-booking. These means act as mini-assistants.
Allow your friends, customers, or even interested people to reach out and contact you. Take the coffee chat to a new level with the available scheduling tool.
With time management apps, you stay informed and on top of your work schedule.
Maintain an excellent reputation moving forward.
3. Leave it upon them
Stay away from people who order you.
Don’t do the extra work. If someone wants to meet you, let them do the dirty work.
Dirty work being: ask them to message you to remind them.
It’s that easy. Suppose a friend comes to you for a weekend girls’ night, but you don’t recall your availability.
Instead of giving your verdict, ask them to catch up on you or remind you through the message.
SMS is a fast, reliable, and evidence-based tool and better than ranking details in your brain. Instead of word of mouth, opt for a message sent directly to your phone.
“Leaving it upon them” is one of the straightforward ways to throw responsibilities on other people’s shoulders. Ask them to contact you. If they forget, it’s not your fault.
Then, take a day in your week and filter out messages — for example, Wednesday and Saturday. Open your mailbox and assign tasks for the next few days.
When someone comes to you with puppy eyes to meet you, give them the task of connecting with you via email/SMS. Most of the time, you can ignore unwanted visitors by:
- When they ask for your number: “oh, I can’t recall. Why don’t you ask Jonas for my number? I am hopeful you can do that.”
- When they ask for an email: create a separate email, [email protected], and offer them the email. Use this email to cache unwanted people and offers. Designate a day to check your email once a year/month.
- Ask for action: “my sister is waiting for me in the car. Mind if we catch up this weekend?”
Assign them the task of contacting you!
4. Hire someone
Having your assistant in 2022 is as painless as finding a cake in a bakery.
It’s smooth!
Anyone can do the work for you. But you have to pay.
Timothy Ferris used the assistant technique and had his assistants connect virtually. These assistants were (mostly) from Southeast Asia. For them, $10–20 is enough money.
An analysis: A $10 is
India: 816 rupees
Vietnamese: 248,525 dong
Uzbekistan: 112,145 som
People from these counties will be more than happy to work for you. But you have to remember; these people come at a cost.
The cost: the language barrier.
You might feel a language barrier. As long as you stay calm and demand a switch of employment/workforce/team, it’s fine.
Designate 1–2 hours of your day to an assistant to clarify your work. Anyone who works in India is most likely to complete your daily routine tasks hours before you wake up.
How to find them: use Fiverr, Indeed, or Upwork.
As Timothy Ferris believes:
“If you spend your time, worth $20–25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it’s simply a poor use of resources.”
For a better feel and work, designate your tasks to an assistant.
You can also contact your assistant to schedule tasks using a voice note. It’s pretty convenient.
Final thoughts:
Your time is rare. Use it wisely.
No one will respect your time until you do. Having tools/assistant acts as a bridge between other people, allowing you to stay on the other side of the informed wall.
A wall where you only receive updates and all trashy work is beheaded.
Imagine life with only positivity, clean work, and family time.
Have you imagined? If yes, you’re one step closer to achieving it!
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