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In any review of your financial life, Job One is figuring out exactly where your cash is going. The same holds true for time.

Write down how you are spending your days, down to the minute, and then take a hard look at the results. Presumably, far too much time is being spent on unproductive periods like commutes¹; scrolling² through anxiety-producing news feeds; or doing stuff you really dislike, mainly because you think you have to.

Yes, you can essentially³ fund more free time for yourself, by outsourcing chores you despise – like, say, cleaning your house. It will cost you in monetary⁴ terms, but if you can afford it, the effect on your life happiness will be wildly disproportionate.

Whillans even came up with a metric to quantify that tradeoff: "Happiness Dollars". For instance, she estimates that outsourcing disliked tasks produces the happiness equivalent of an extra $16,000 in annual household income.In any review of your financial life, Job One is figuring out exactly where your cash is going. The same holds true for time.

Write down how you are spending your days, down to the minute, and then take a hard look at the results. Presumably, far too much time is being spent on unproductive periods like commutes¹; scrolling² through anxiety-producing news feeds; or doing stuff you really dislike, mainly because you think you have to.

Yes, you can essentially³ fund more free time for yourself, by outsourcing chores you despise – like, say, cleaning your house. It will cost you in monetary⁴ terms, but if you can afford it, the effect on your life happiness will be wildly disproportionate.

Whillans even came up with a metric to quantify that tradeoff: "Happiness Dollars". For instance, she estimates that outsourcing disliked tasks produces the happiness equivalent of an extra $16,000 in annual household income.In any review of your financial life, Job One is figuring out exactly where your cash is going. The same holds true for time.

Write down how you are spending your days, down to the minute, and then take a hard look at the results. Presumably, far too much time is being spent on unproductive periods like commutes¹; scrolling² through anxiety-producing news feeds; or doing stuff you really dislike, mainly because you think you have to.

Yes, you can essentially³ fund more free time for yourself, by outsourcing chores you despise – like, say, cleaning your house. It will cost you in monetary⁴ terms, but if you can afford it, the effect on your life happiness will be wildly disproportionate.

Whillans even came up with a metric to quantify that tradeoff: "Happiness Dollars". For instance, she estimates that outsourcing disliked tasks produces the happiness equivalent of an extra $16,000 in annual household income.In any review of your financial life, Job One is figuring out exactly where your cash is going. The same holds true for time.

Write down how you are spending your days, down to the minute, and then take a hard look at the results. Presumably, far too much time is being spent on unproductive periods like commutes¹; scrolling² through anxiety-producing news feeds; or doing stuff you really dislike, mainly because you think you have to.

Yes, you can essentially³ fund more free time for yourself, by outsourcing chores you despise – like, say, cleaning your house. It will cost you in monetary⁴ terms, but if you can afford it, the effect on your life happiness will be wildly disproportionate.

Whillans even came up with a metric to quantify that tradeoff: "Happiness Dollars". For instance, she estimates that outsourcing disliked tasks produces the happiness equivalent of an extra $16,000 in annual household income.In any review of your financial life, Job One is figuring out exactly where your cash is going. The same holds true for time.

Write down how you are spending your days, down to the minute, and then take a hard look at the results. Presumably, far too much time is being spent on unproductive periods like commutes¹; scrolling² through anxiety-producing news feeds; or doing stuff you really dislike, mainly because you think you have to.

Yes, you can essentially³ fund more free time for yourself, by outsourcing chores you despise – like, say, cleaning your house. It will cost you in monetary⁴ terms, but if you can afford it, the effect on your life happiness will be wildly disproportionate.

Whillans even came up with a metric to quantify that tradeoff: "Happiness Dollars". For instance, she estimates that outsourcing disliked tasks produces the happiness equivalent of an extra $16,000 in annual household income.In any review of your financial life, Job One is figuring out exactly where your cash is going. The same holds true for time.

Write down how you are spending your days, down to the minute, and then take a hard look at the results. Presumably, far too much time is being spent on unproductive periods like commutes¹; scrolling² through anxiety-producing news feeds; or doing stuff you really dislike, mainly because you think you have to.

Yes, you can essentially³ fund more free time for yourself, by outsourcing chores you despise – like, say, cleaning your house. It will cost you in monetary⁴ terms, but if you can afford it, the effect on your life happiness will be wildly disproportionate.

Whillans even came up with a metric to quantify that tradeoff: "Happiness Dollars". For instance, she estimates that outsourcing disliked tasks produces the happiness equivalent of an extra $16,000 in annual household income.In any review of your financial life, Job One is figuring out exactly where your cash is going. The same holds true for time.

Write down how you are spending your days, down to the minute, and then take a hard look at the results. Presumably, far too much time is being spent on unproductive periods like commutes¹; scrolling² through anxiety-producing news feeds; or doing stuff you really dislike, mainly because you think you have to.

Yes, you can essentially³ fund more free time for yourself, by outsourcing chores you despise – like, say, cleaning your house. It will cost you in monetary⁴ terms, but if you can afford it, the effect on your life happiness will be wildly disproportionate.

Whillans even came up with a metric to quantify that tradeoff: "Happiness Dollars". For instance, she estimates that outsourcing disliked tasks produces the happiness equivalent of an extra $16,000 in annual household income.In any review of your financial life, Job One is figuring out exactly where your cash is going. The same holds true for time.

Write down how you are spending your days, down to the minute, and then take a hard look at the results. Presumably, far too much time is being spent on unproductive periods like commutes¹; scrolling² through anxiety-producing news feeds; or doing stuff you really dislike, mainly because you think you have to.

Yes, you can essentially³ fund more free time for yourself, by outsourcing chores you despise – like, say, cleaning your house. It will cost you in monetary⁴ terms, but if you can afford it, the effect on your life happiness will be wildly disproportionate.

Whillans even came up with a metric to quantify that tradeoff: "Happiness Dollars". For instance, she estimates that outsourcing disliked tasks produces the happiness equivalent of an extra $16,000 in annual household income.