You have one hand on your purse, a kid in your arm and the house growing dirtier each day. If only you could get someone to sweep in and clean the house whenever life gets a little too overwhelming. Hiring someone on a regular basis is out of the question. Do you ever wish you could employ local helpers to take on tasks when you can’t?

We’ve all been there—the laundry can’t get done at the same time as the bills and office work. Meanwhile, the grass grows tall and the neighbors are wondering when you’ll be trimming up the garden. You don’t know when it will get done or how.

You’d love to ask Tommy down the street to mow the lawn, but 7 years old is too young for that. Anyone you know either works just as fiercely as you or is a small child. Giving work to locals, rather than outsourcing corporate strangers, would be perfect. Local helpers can earn extra cash while you can loosen the hold your busy life has on you.

Finding a personal assistant like this is totally possible with myTaskAngel. It’s simple. Just log in and search the online marketplace for the job you need. You can connect with local helpers to get everyday tasks done or find a temporary personal assistant.

A variety of skills and services of locals provides an online world to find the perfect myTaskAngel match. You can find anything from snow shoveling to designing a website to babysitting.

Personal assistants aren’t just for the rich anymore. myTask Angel opens up countless personal assistant options all while you give local helpers opportunities to work.

Can you think of a job you need but can’t seem to get done? Why wait? Sign up now

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How would you like to free up time during the week, to spend on what really matters?  If you were given an extra hour today, what would you do?

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As many of you will have noticed, we haven’t been blogging for a while. The entire team have been busy with testing and bug fixing in preparation for our launch, which is just around the corner. As part of this process, we have made a few design changes and even developed some cool additional features.

We are so excited to finally unveil myTaskAngel to our first group of beta testers. We have done all we can at this point and recognise that the final stage of the site’s development is up to you – our users. We’ve learned that it takes a community to build a community. It is pointless building features which will end up being just cool features designed by our development team, if they do not also meet the needs of the end users.

We really need your comments and feedback to help create a unique community that makes tackling day to day tasks on your to-do list a breeze.

For those that are interested in Beta and haven’t been contacted by us or requested an invite, sign up here and we would endeavour to respond.

If you are interested in offering services on myTaskAngel, we would like to hear from you.

Keeping a to-do list is a necessity for many to help with getting things done.  These tasks can sometimes get daunting to accomplish on a daily basis.

Another way of  getting things done, is to turn your mundane tasks into a game. By completing tasks on your to-do list, your are instantly rewarded with points, you develop skills and can progress to the various levels. This may serve as a motivating factor and improve your productivity.

There are now ways you can do this without trying to invent your own game. Here is a brief run-down of some of the popular ones:

1. Epic Win

EpicWin is an iPhone app to-do list app with RPG setting. It makes to-do list as much fun as playing a game.

2. Chore Wars

Chore Wars lets you claim experience points for housework.

3. Greengoose (Beta)

Green Goose uses wireless sensors that can be attached to items, such as a pet collar, water bottle or bike, to detect when you perform a task and rewards you with lifestyle points.

Others include 0boxer, theemailgame, marketstreet, Farmville and much more.

Photocredit: Epicwin

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At one time or another, most people would likely find themselves overwhelmed by a long to-do list of household chores and tasks, and often, it seems like there are not enough hours in the day to do everything that needs to be done.

We have all heard the phrase,”time is precious, make the most of it”.Time is also not reversible or renewable, you cannot move back in time or even forward, so what you do with your today and what you do now counts.

To be able to effectively manage your time to complete pending tasks on your to-do list, you need to also master a good work-life balance. Your attitude and perception on work and life balance is what is portrayed in your every day life. If what really matters to you is family and friends then your attitude towards getting the right balance between working long hours and your daily chores will be different.

Here are some useful tips

1. Automate Tasks on your to do list

Having a to-do list is an important component of your action plans and serves as a reminder of pending tasks. These days it’s easy to have a digital/electronic to-do list but having a list doesn’t mean the tasks are done. It is important to prioritise tasks on the list and tackle them in order of priority.

Schedule reminders on important tasks at the time you’re more likely to act on them. If you schedule reminders at busy periods you may not have time to act on the reminder or complete the task. The key is to set reminders when you know you will be free to act appropriately.

You can do this easily using Google task/calender to schedule things like paying bills, house cleaning, walk the dog etc. Another web based solution I am currently trying out is Plancake, which is a GTD-friendly task management tool. Another very popular web-based application is  remember-the-milk which is one of a myriad of options out there

2. Eliminate unnecessary tasks

You need to find ways to free up time for more important tasks. This means eliminating  time-wasters and making time for spending with family, friends or loved ones. Instead of doing the laundry twice a week, you can do it as a bulk task on a set day and time of the week. This frees up time to focus on tasks in life that matter. If you focus on tackling the big tasks, you have taken out big chunk from your to-do list and are a few steps away from GTD.

3. Get Task Helpers

Doing multi-tasks is often stressful and less productive. Rather than focus on several tasks at once do one task at a time. Delegate tasks to friends or family.

For example a trip to the supermarket can be assigned to a friend who will be making the same trip anyway alternatively you can assign tasks easily to a “TaskAngel” via myTaskAngel.co.uk. It’s that simple, work out how many hours it takes to do a tasks and compare to your hourly wage and see if the time saved will be a lot better spent doing other important tasks.

Do you have any tips or useful web based tool for freeing up time? Fire up the comments below and let’s hear it.

Related articles

• 10 tips for a better work-life balance (simplybusiness.co.uk)
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• Editing To-Do Lists On the Go: Integrate Toodledo With Captio (lifehack.org)
• Discipline – The 4th Key to Success (bloggingtips.com)

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Today our facebook social campaign went live. We have updated our twitter page  as part of our launch campaign.

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