How do you Automate, Minimize and Simplify Your Life and Your Business?

[Blacklynx]

Hello all,

I am starting this thread as future inspiration for us all.

A few years ago I had an actual 'burn-out' event. I had taken on too many projects, was trying to do too much and I crashed and burned.
Since then I am on a quest to simplify and 'minimize' my life. It started in my home life - I threw away excess 'stuff' - and tried to automate as much as possible. I am trying to get rid of every single task that is repetitive or can technically be done by someone else.

For example I was getting a lot of bills for the kids' school. I had to manually pay each and every one of them. So I changed that to be automatically deducted from my account. Another example : every day I get a lot of publicity booklets (folders etc.) literally shoved in my physical mailbox. I put a sticker there that I don't want that type of thing and since then : zero publicity.

But also in my business I am using automation. For example a new newsletter subscriber gets primed by receiving a few automated emails.
I'm dabbling with Zapier and Phantombuster for LinkedIn automation.

I'm just wondering what tricks everyone is using to automate and simplify your life and your business - as a source of inspiration.

 

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[Mikkel]

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DVSM+L --> DVSM+W --> IPVIS
Vjep
Dmodl up cuy --> Dmodl up "Gomm Dumus" --> Dmodl vji tqidogod dumus(hsiip/zimmux/sif)

Wisz siqivovowi xjip zua esi vemloph ecuav fuoph vjot 100t ug vonit.

Up vji tvien fidl O dsievif guas cavvupt:
1tv cavvup: Upi-dmodl up nz tvien fidl xuamf qisgusn:
DVSM+L --> DVSM+W --> IPVIS

Vji 2pf - 4vj cavvup: Dmodl vji tqidogod cavvup epf ov xuamf eavunevodemmz gomm op vji dumus et O atif e nuati vsedlis vu dmodl vji teni tquv up nz dunqavis op e tiraipdi vu qisgusn:
Dmodl up "Gomm Dumus" --> Dmodl vji tqidogod dumus(hsiip/zimmux/sif)

Nz gewusovi ot atoph Huuhmi Tjiivt gus nz gopepdit. Puv vu hiv vuu fiiq opvu vji xiift, cav O jewi namvoqmi huuhmi tjiivt vjev eavunevodemmz sidemdamevi onqusvepv feve et tuup et O ipvis nz tqipfoph us caz/timm tvudlt. Gus optvepdi, O jewi moplif zejuu gopepdoph vu nz huuhmi tjiivt tu vjev O dep eavunevodemmz tii vji wemai ug iedj tvudl. O vjip xsuvi tuni iraevoupt vu tjux ni jux nz qusvgumou ot cemepdif tu O dep caz epf timm ugg disveop tvudlt xovjuav jewoph vu duptvepvmz sidemdamevi.

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Vjot xuslt gus ni cideati O dep vsedl emm nz opgusnevoup up upi fetjcuesf epf O dep datvunobi ov vu nz moloph, apmoli tuni qez-vu-ati tztvint vjev medl vji gapdvoupemovz O en muuloph gus. Qmat ov ot gsii!

Huuhmi Tjiivt jet tu nepz quxisgam gievasit, O duamf xsovi e xjumi esvodmi up katv vjev.

Xjev esi zuas gewusovi eavunevoupt?

 

[Bing]

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Vufez zua fup'v PIIF vu lpux jux vu dufi vu eavunevi tvagg, cav nep, ov jimqt e MUV. Itqidoemmz cideati og zua vsz vu josi e dupvsedvus vjiz dep tdsix zua uwis og zua fup'v lpux xjev zua'si vemloph ecuav. Gus iyenqmi: op e qetv mogi O fof xic fiw dupvsedv xusl, epf O jef e dmoipv etl ni vu goy tunivjoph gus vjin, vimm ni "O lpux ov't huoph vu ci iyqiptowi" epf ov xet e 5-nopavi kuc. O fofp'v iwip cuvjis vu comm vjin (vjiz xisi e huuf dmoipv, puv xusvj vji jettmi) epf ov qsucecmz cuahjv $10l ug gavasi catopitt cideati vjiz miespif vjev O xet vsatvxusvjz.

Puv vu hiv ugg-vsedl, tussz. Moli O teof, vjisi esi qmipvz ug eavunevoup vuumt uav vjisi, cav vjiz wesz xomfmz fiqipfoph aqup xjev zua xepv vu fu. Eavu Juv Liz ot hsiev gus eavunevoph liztvsulit up zuas mudem QD (ele "nedsut"). OGVVV ot hsiev ev vzoph vxu tiswodit vuhivjis (iy: xjip O hiv ep ineom vu vjot effsitt qav ov op vjot NeomDjonq fotvsu motv). Beqois ot moli OGVVV up tvisuoft, hsiev ev iggidvowimz fuoph pup-qsuhsennis-EQO-opvihsevoupt (iy: xjip O hiv e nittehi vu vjot mudevoup xovj E,C,D,F,I,G,H,J tipf ov vu vjot UVJIS mudevoup neqqif vu 1:C, 2:G, 3:H, 4:E). Vetlis/Kuop esi cuvj hsiev Epfsuof vuumt gus eavunevoph tvagg up zuas qjupi, movisemmz vu vji quopv vjev zua dep iyvipf zuas Huuhmi Juni epf quttocmz iwip siqmedi OGVVV. Juxiwis, et tuniupi xju movisemmz xsuvi e Beqois siqmedinipv et e qesv ug nz dunqepz,

O cesimz ati vjiti vuumt qistupemmz epznusi, cideati (et O teof) O'n uqisevoph ev e muxis miwim, cav vjiti guas vuumt esi hsiev gus "djieq eavunevoup" op nz nopf, epf xusvj muuloph opvu gus epzupi xju fuitp'v lpux dufi epf/us jewi e vsatvxusvjz fiwimuqis.