Comments on: My First Experience with a Personal Chef http://www.urbanmonarch.com/my-first-experience-with-a-personal-chef/ Advice for a generation of men raised by women Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:23:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: 4 hour work week book review / overview: part 3 of 4 at Urban Monarch http://www.urbanmonarch.com/my-first-experience-with-a-personal-chef/#comment-31072 4 hour work week book review / overview: part 3 of 4 at Urban Monarch Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:16:57 +0000 http://www.urbanmonarch.com/my-first-experience-with-a-personal-chef/#comment-31072 [...] Achieving more by doing less depends on team work.  Probably not the ‘team’ you have in mind though.  T4HWW suggests outsourcing as many menial tasks as you can.  Much as our own Greg has handed over cooking and laundry duties to outside vendors, so can you.  Beyond that though, most of your non-essential computer work, (bill paying, research, gift ordering to name but three) can be handled by low cost ‘virtual assistants’ in India.  Would it be cheaper to do it yourself?  Sure. It is absolutely necessary that you realize that you can always do something more cheaply yourself.  This doesn’t mean you want to spend your time doing it.  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.  It is important to take baby steps toward paying others to do work for you.  Few do it, which is another reason so few people have their ideal lifestyles. [...] [...] Achieving more by doing less depends on team work.  Probably not the ‘team’ you have in mind though.  T4HWW suggests outsourcing as many menial tasks as you can.  Much as our own Greg has handed over cooking and laundry duties to outside vendors, so can you.  Beyond that though, most of your non-essential computer work, (bill paying, research, gift ordering to name but three) can be handled by low cost ‘virtual assistants’ in India.  Would it be cheaper to do it yourself?  Sure. It is absolutely necessary that you realize that you can always do something more cheaply yourself.  This doesn’t mean you want to spend your time doing it.  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.  It is important to take baby steps toward paying others to do work for you.  Few do it, which is another reason so few people have their ideal lifestyles. [...]

]]> By: Greg http://www.urbanmonarch.com/my-first-experience-with-a-personal-chef/#comment-4365 Greg Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:34:49 +0000 http://www.urbanmonarch.com/my-first-experience-with-a-personal-chef/#comment-4365 You can come over anytime. ;) The service was $375 for the package. I'm working out another post that analyzes the cost vs time saved. You can come over anytime. ;)

The service was $375 for the package. I’m working out another post that analyzes the cost vs time saved.

]]> By: cash http://www.urbanmonarch.com/my-first-experience-with-a-personal-chef/#comment-4363 cash Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:07:02 +0000 http://www.urbanmonarch.com/my-first-experience-with-a-personal-chef/#comment-4363 PS- the one thing you neglected to mention here is the price. It's worth noting, as all this wonderful goodness doesn't come cheap from what I recall when we talked on Saturday. PS- the one thing you neglected to mention here is the price.

It’s worth noting, as all this wonderful goodness doesn’t come cheap from what I recall when we talked on Saturday.

]]> By: cash http://www.urbanmonarch.com/my-first-experience-with-a-personal-chef/#comment-4362 cash Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:05:28 +0000 http://www.urbanmonarch.com/my-first-experience-with-a-personal-chef/#comment-4362 Oh. My. God. My eyes just rolled back in my head. As I sit here eating.. a peanut butter sammich on 7 grain + flax organic bread. When are you inviting me over to sample the goods?! Oh. My. God.

My eyes just rolled back in my head. As I sit here eating.. a peanut butter sammich on 7 grain + flax organic bread.

When are you inviting me over to sample the goods?!

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