Drop your mental load and stop living on autopilot
Start living an intentional life and regain peace of mind

Life Admin Essentials is for you if you...
- Are tired of feeling overwhelmed all the time
- Know you could be more present with your kids if you lost the brain chatter
- Dream of taking time off work to deal with life admin
- Need to reduce your cost of living by reducing overheads, not the stuff that makes life fun
- Want tasks to feel fairer at home
Our work lives were under control, so why was it chaos at home?
I remember standing in my backyard at 11pm one night, hanging laundry on the clothesline in the dark. It was the last job to get done before heading to bed, and this seemed to be the only window for me to do it. It had been a long day of working, running around after my kids and organising things at home. My then-husband was already in bed. I stood there looking at the stars, tired and resentful, thinking something had to change.Â
A few Fridays later, I met with Dinah, and over several wines - you know how it is -Â she shared that she was close to burnout. She was exhausted by her never-ending to-do list and yet sleeping badly. Things were getting tense at home because, somehow, she seemed to be soley in charge of keeping the juggernaut going.
- Only we knew the family schedules and who had to be where, when.
- We panicked about what was for dinner every night, even when we werenât going to be home ourselves.
- We tossed rate hike letters for insurance premiums/electricity rates/internet plans on a pile and vowed to get to them... eventually.
- We lost evenings scanning endless school emails and portal notifications.
- Every day required the reset of a forgotten password for some online account.
- Dinah had a husband and two kids, a house, and investments, and had never gotten around to getting a will.
- My tax was years behind.
How, as educated professionals who had always been organised and responsible, did we get to this anxious, exasperating, infuriating place?


We were ricocheting from one task to the next, distracted, stretched, and rarely able to be present in the moment
We were wasting money on uncompetitive product plans and feeling sheepish about it.
We were spending too much of our precious nights and weekends - or lunch breaks at work - paying bills and making family health appointments.
There was constant brain chatter about all the things that needed to be done and a nagging worry that weâd forgotten something important.
There was increasing friction at home because the workload felt unfair, and appreciation for that work was scarce.
Both of us had, at times, scaled down our paid work to cope with the domestic demands of modern life. Â
This out-of-control life admin was not sustainable. Not for our mental health, nor our marriages nor our careers.
We knew how to solve these types of problems
It was the next day that Dinah and I decided to do something about it. Dinah had worked in operations and finance for decades, and I had worked in digital user experience design and research. In our professional lives, we optimised tasks, processes and tools to improve the efficiency, budgets and experiences of thousands of employees and customers.Â
It was time to bring this ease and effectiveness to our own homes.Â
Instead of reacting to whatever admin life threw at us, we wanted to respond in a knowledgeable and methodical way. We needed to create a system that we could operate with confidence.
Dinah and I spent months devouring everything we could about time management, productivity, behavioural science, decision-making, the mental load, and habit formation.
We ourselves were the guinea pigs as we tested apps, websites, templates and processes to identify the ones that made the biggest impact on reducing or automating all the dimensions of life admin that drove us bananas. We trialled practical ways to share life admin within our households, looping our partners and kids into the experiment.
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We shared our challenges and the results in our podcast, Life Admin Life Hacks, and took our listeners on the journey with us.
And gradually, as we tweaked the sequence of steps, found game-changing tools that did the heavy lifting for us, and demystified certain topics, our system fell into place.
More days than not the mailbox was empty. The paper clutter vanished.Â
Switching to a new provider took an hour, not every other evening for a month. The credit card balance statement was less daunting.
Partners initiated gift buying and playdate dropoffs. The shared digital calendar gave transparency to what was going on in our lives and let others take the reins.

Fast forward to now
We have an Hour of Power every other week to nail the chunky life admin tasks that we used to procrastinate about for months - even years. We address smaller Two Minutes Too Easy or Ten Minute Time Killer tasks without the flutter of anxiety.
Our weeks feel spacious.
It feels like a luxury to achieve genuine peace of mind.
INTRODUCING
Life Admin Essentials
Are you ready to ditch reactivity and streamline your life with a proactive approach?
This course includes:
- step-by-step processes, downloadable editable templates and checklists, recommended apps and websites
- 9 modules with videos that help you:
- Set up foundational digital tools such as:
- a shared calendar and dedicated life admin email address
- Â to-do lists, reference lists and checklists
- cloud storage
- password manager
- Manage time and scheduling
- Comparison shop major household expenses (eg health insurance, internet plans, home loans)
- Conquer meal planning
- Document a will - finally!
- Reduce and share the mental load.
- Set up foundational digital tools such as:
What you'll learn in this course

MODULE 1
Scheduling and time management
Learn how to consolidate your household diaries into a digital calendar, expand the inevitable and inspirational activities that belong on your calendar and carve out time for not only life admin but the fun stuff too.

MODULE 2
Managing passwords
Learn which password managers are worth installing, how to import your old passwords and which other data to store securely, to supercharge your efficiency while minimising your cybersecurity risks.

MODULE 3
Going paperless
We'll step you through the technology and process to crawl out from under all that paper and digitally organise the files worth keeping, to save you time while saving the trees.

MODULE 4
Meal planning
Discover how taking a methodical approach to meal planning can free up your time, reduce waste, help you eat better, save money and avoid that daily 5pm panic.

MODULEÂ 5
Reducing and sharing the mental load
Find out how to minimise and share the thinking, planning and anticipating that keeps chaos at bay, rather than be the one person on top of everything in your household.

MODULE 6
Money Management and MindsetÂ
Gain the knowledge and tools to master your money mindset, optimise spending, and set and achieve your financial goals.

MODULEÂ 7
Comparison shopping
Discover the key steps, scripts and templates to securing more competitive deals for your major household expenses, to save significant money in an approachable and repeatable way.

MODULE 8
Wills and powers of attorney
We'll show you how to get started with estate planning and finally document a will, to give you and your family ultimate peace of mind.Â

MODULE 9
Plan your Meals and Shop Smarter
YLearn how to simplify your meal planning and grocery shopping to save time, reduce stress, and cut costs, making your weekly routine more efficient and budget-friendly.
NICE TO MEET YOU
We're Mia and Dinah
Weâve heard from listeners, readers and coaching clients that theyâd read time management books and tried the productivity hacks, yet they didnât make life admin much easier.
The truth: optimising life admin is more than just managing your time better or having more time to do it. Your life admin isnât out of control because you just need more time.Â
Life admin feels manageable when you leverage the powerful features of your smartphone, know the right apps and sites to use, plus the right steps to take, to make life admin frictionless and able to be done in as little time as possible. It's about working smarter not harder.
Dinah and I are savvy enough people, but we simply didnât know the ins and outs of getting a will, or the finer points of evaluating home and contents insurance plans, or the useful yet hidden features of a password manager. Nobody teaches you this stuff, and weâd never taken the time to learn. Contemporary life means more services and more choices - adults now have way more admin than their great-grandparents did. Life is actually more complicated.
Like most people, Dinah and I under-estimated how much we needed to ramp up our ability to do life admin well.
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Getting control of life admin is not a matter of willpower nor personality type. There are mindset shifts and new behaviours to embrace too. Youâre going to need to learn about the concepts of satisficing and over-functioning and get clear about your own priorities, boundaries and values to transform your approach to life admin overall.
We codified the system in our best-selling book, Life Admin Hacks, and now we want to teach the essentials to you.
Weâll show you the foundational tools that simplify your life admin and make other life admin tasks faster, plus shortcuts for the areas of life admin that will remove friction and make you feel more in control, immediately.
Just like weâve done for tens of thousands of listeners and readers already.
"It's made such a positive difference to our lives - thanks Dinah and Mia!"
-Â Robyn
"Iâm half way through and I am learning so much. Itâs like having a friend with a dry sense of humour show you how to get your s##t together. Congrats - itâs brilliant."
-Â June
"Real, useful and helpful advice that makes a real difference given from people just like you."
-Â Bianca
Imagine a different kind of bedtime
You climb into the cosy covers and pick up the book you started last week. Youâre halfway through already.Â
Youâre looking forward to going for a run first thing in the morning, since the groceries were delivered this afternoon and the family has everything they need for the week of breakfasts, lunchboxes and dinners ahead. Itâll be the first opportunity to try your new running shoes, bought with some of the cash saved when you switched to that new insurance company.
It starts to rain and you remember that the gutters need cleaning. You add a task to your phoneâs Ten Minute Time Killers to-do list to get some quotes, then donât give it another thought.
Your meditation app chimes, and you smile. This new habit has fast become your favourite way to finish the day. Sleep comes swiftly.
Ultimately, optimising your life admin is not about inbox zero and a month-long meal plan.
Itâs about having peace of mind and time for the people and pursuits that matter most to you.
Let us take you there.

But but but...
Has your inner critic piped up, or have old invisible scripts and imaginary rules for yourself kicked in? Itâs natural, youâre only human, and we all have these inner voices that can sabotage us when we try to change. If youâre not managing your life admin the way you want to, despite all the free advice and resources out there, itâs time to examine some deeply held beliefs that you might not even realise you have.
I can work this out myself for free
I donât have time for this right now
Thereâs no point in me doing this when my partner needs to get on board too
But Iâm single/in a couple/a solo parent/young adult/empty nester
I just need to be more motivated and disciplined
Itâs my personality - Iâll just never be an organised person
This will be yet another thing on my already endless to-do list
I canât spare the money for this
ACTION IS THE ANTIDOTE TO ANXIETY
Where will you be 12 months from now?
Your curiosity led you here because this pain point is real.
Today you need to make a decision.
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Make a decision to escape this state of overwhelm.
There is a way to quieten that feeling of monkey mind. Make this small intervention now to change the trajectory of your days.
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Stop hoping that one day youâll magically have more time to do life admin.
Life admin doesnât require more of your time, in fact, with our system youâll need less time to do life admin because we will show you how to reduce, time box and share it.
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Quit telling yourself you just need more motivation.
Relying on willpower and motivation for what is, letâs face it, the âhomeworkâ of adult life is not going to get you far. What does move the dial is getting solid advice from people who can give you the systems and tools you need.
Yes, It Really Is Possible!
If this is right for you, weâd love to invite you to take the course. If not, take advantage of the free advice on our podcast or grab a copy of our book.
CREATE YOUR ORGANISED LIFE TODAY!
Life Admin Essentials
30-DAY MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
If you arenât completely satisfied with Life Admin Essentials, let us know within the first 30-days for a full refund.Â