# How to Better Manage Your Life Admin  ## About - Author: Brett and Kate McKay - Title: How to Better Manage Your Life Admin - Tags: #articles - URL: https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/how-to-better-manage-your-life-admin/ ## Highlights Schedule two hours on the weekend and invite your friends over to your place. Tell them to bring any life admin they need to do: taxes, filling out health insurance forms, planning home improvement projects, etc. Provide drinks and snacks. Play some tunes. Work on your life admin together. Not only does working with other people make the task more palatable, but your friends might also have some insights on how to make your life admin easier. - Note: This sounds like a win-win! You get social benefits and advice on particularly tricky life admin --- Think about how you can help alleviate life admin burdens in your wider community too. Research has shown that being poor, and being burdened with the stress of having limited resources, is already a bandwidth suck. That makes tending to the willpower-draining tasks of life admin even harder to do. - Note: This sounds like a key to happiness! ---