What's on your to-do list?

Question 1

a chore

Answer 1

a boring, ordinary task you do regularly.

What’s the best way to organise everything? You need a ‘to-do’ list – a list of all the jobs you need to do that you can work your way through.
life admin is necessary but it can be a bit of a chore

Question 2

admin

Answer 2

short for ‘administration’ – the activities and tasks you have to do to make a business, organisation or just your life, run smoothly.

That’s a good idea and something we can include in today’s discussion about life admin. life admin is administration you have to do to make your day-to-day life run smoothly – like doing housework, or paying a bill.

Question 3

aka

Answer 3

also known as.

Life admin is the office work of life, it’s the invisible layer of work that is the kind of thing that managers and secretaries, aka admins, do for pay in the office but that everyone does in their own lives for free.

Question 4

utility company

Answer 4

a company that supplies something such as electricity, gas, or water to the public.
A utility company, is one that supplies something such as electricity, gas, or water to the public.

Also check: The national grid

life admin is boring and we don’t get paid for it – and also, trying to renew your house insurance or trying to query a bill with a utility company can be frustrating and feels like a waste of time.

Question 5

procrastinate

Answer 5

delay doing things until later, probably because you don’t want to do them.

My problem is I never get round to doing my life admin – there are better things to do – so you could say I procrastinate

Question 6

super-doers

Answer 6

an informal term to describe people who get satisfaction out of doing life admin and do lots of it.

If you’ve ever made a list and put things on it you’ve already done, just to cross them out, then you know the kind of ‘done it’ pleasure that goes with that. But actually I interviewed people, especially the super-doers that I interviewed, actually can find real pleasure in the actual doing of it - so trying to understand how we can get to that when we have to do it.

so personally, I think I’ll stick with being an ‘admin avoider’ – but that might explain why I just got charged extra for not paying my credit card bill on time!