Why You Need a Personal Assistant...
- Ashlei Conte
- Nov 16, 2019
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 1, 2020
Do you want to know why I know you need a personal assistant? Because I need a personal assistant!
It hit me one day that in addition to taking care of my, then, 10-month-old son, I also needed to meal plan, grocery shop, do the laundry, facilitate doctor's appointments, tidy up, clean the bathroom, feed the dog... and maybe get a shower in when the baby slept! Add in our weekly social activities (or attempts, anyway!), upcoming travel plans, birthday parties, holidays, church, exercise - there doesn't seem to be time to do anything else.
And what do I mean by "anything else"? I mean all those things I was "going to get done" when I had more time as a stay-at-home-mom:
Organize our stuff for the move.
Sell the treadmill and wet-vacuums on #LetGo or #Craigslist.
Save my boxes of family photos to the cloud AND organize the photos by year/event.
Write my book!
Become a minimalist!!
Be the best teacher-mom out there who would be organized, planned a week out with all my best #HappyPlanner stickers perfectly applied to my color-coordinated calendar!!!
...that's the dream, right?! It was mine, anyway. The problem is: time.
Time. It's the most valuable commodity? You can't earn it, own it, or replace it. It's that thing that once gone can never be found again. And in today's day-and-age of instant gratification we need our stuff done, like, yesterday - but there's not enough hours in the day!
We...
hire cleaning lady's to deep clean our homes that we can't get to.
order #UberEats or #HelloFresh to substitute our meal planning.
use #Instacart for grocery pick-ups.
set reminders and timers on our phones to stay on task.
organize chore charts for our family members.
coordinate school/activity pick-ups/drop-offs.
...and if you're anything like my family, we've currently got a multi-generational living situation where I get to watch my mom care for her ailing mother and think, "she needs help too!" Or a husband who hates computers but has responsibilities to his daughter, work, and school - he is consistently asking me to draft and/or proof emails, format #MSExcel spreadsheets or #MSWord documents, teach him how to create a #MSPowerPoint presentation... you name it! (All this "work" and yet it's all for "personal" tasks!)
So that's where this idea came from. I majored in Organizational Management, minored in Project Management, have experience in leadership and administrative roles, and I just felt like I could use these skills to help others! I have a service spirit that runs deep and I come out of a generation that bridges the gap between #BabyBoomers and #Millenials - so I have a good work ethic with a digitally-forward mindset. (In a previously life I used to joke with people who brought me their IT needs: I am not an IT professional, but I can #Google with the best of them!)
So let someone else facilitate the meal prep, run the errands, de-clutter your inbox, or facilitate your travel plans. Delegate the to-do list to your #VirtualHandyman - not the fixer-upper, but rather your living-helper! My goal is to help you complete your tasks. Whether it be to plan, organize, prioritize, schedule, or to complete your to-do's ...so that you have more time to just be you!
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