by Jash | Dec 18, 2024 | Burn Out, Business, General, News
Do you remember last year’s viral reel, “When you’re overstimulated but still trying to be nice?“
It showed a parent, clearly overstimulated, but still trying (albeit failing) to be nice to her children in the background.
The reel struck a chord with many of us, and for good reason. Balancing work and personal life as a busy executive can be overwhelming. This is especially true when your job seems to take all of you, leaving you unable to show up for your family and friends how you’d like.
Paradoxically, as your career thrives, it can feel like your home life is falling through the cracks.
Home repairs go unscheduled, children’s questions get pushed away, and there is a constant fogginess and mental fatigue surrounding every decision to be made-no matter how small. The weight of it all leaves you mentally and emotionally depleted.
It’s no surprise then if when you’re physically with your loved ones, you sense you’re not fully there. Instead, you likely find yourself emotionally preoccupied with the numerous things that must be done and the never-ending demands of work and life.
If this resonates, you’re not alone. Countless high-performing executives and C-suite employees face the same challenge.
Read on to learn how decision fatigue and overwhelm might be limiting your emotional presence and how you can achieve a better work-life balance in 2025.
Signs You Are Emotionally Absent in Your Life
You come home after a long day to children who are excitedly showing you their latest art projects. You only nod while responding to an email on your phone. They put the drawing away, assuming you’re too busy to care.
Then there’s the constant reliance on the word no: no to a quick game, a walk, or even a conversation. Everything feels like too much and you find yourself easily overwhelmed. So much so that small requests irritate you, playful moments with your kids feel like interruptions, and even light conversations seem like a burden. You tell yourself you’ll invest in them on the weekend, but instead, your weekend becomes an endless to-do list, and the crazy cycle starts all over again.
Joy becomes harder to access in your daily life. The things you once found humorous no longer brighten your days. Your children sense your frustration; they see their laughter or questions as distractions from more “important matters.”
This is what it looks like to be emotionally absent.
While you may be physically present, the effort required to connect in a meaningful way with those around you isn’t. Over time, these moments accumulate, and the distance grows unnoticed until it’s too late.
If you find yourself snapping at loved ones, overwhelmed by even mundane decisions, or consumed with worry, these are signs you’ve become emotionally unavailable. But this isn’t about blame. You’re not alone, and there’s a way forward. Change and support is possible, but it starts with a healthy awareness.
What’s Keeping Executives from Being Emotionally Present?
How did we get here?
The advent of smartphones and messaging apps has created an always-on culture. What once required scheduled meetings now steadily creeps into your personal time. Our connectivity comes with a price: our time and energy are constantly accessible to others.
Adding to this challenge is the blurred boundaries between work and personal life. A quick email check at dinner turns into back-and-forth correspondences, an expectation of responsiveness. As you bear the mental load of strategic decision-making, coordinating teams, and solving problems, there’s little bandwidth left for emotional engagement at home.
Compounding this is the myth of being super efficient. Having excelled at work, many high-achieving professionals expect that the same precision and success will simply translate over to their home life. This belief often leads to guilt or reluctance to seek support, as they perceive it as a failure or inadequacy.
Then there’s the challenge of finding good help. We are accustomed to excellence so enlisting help isn’t as simple as hiring someone to handle tasks. It can feel impossible to find someone who meets the standards of skill, discretion, and trustworthiness. For many, we’re not looking for another staff member to manage. So we press on in the malaise and remain stuck in a cycle of burnout.
The system is perfectly designed to pull you further away from emotional presence in your life, despite your best intentions.
But what’s the real cost of this absence?
The High Cost of Emotional Absence
Being emotionally absent poses significant challenges to individuals and the overall family dynamics.
The formative years of childhood-and even adolescence-are crucial in shaping children’s emotional and social skills. They need high levels of emotional safety and regulation as they maneuver the changes in their lives. When a parent is emotionally unavailable, children can feel isolated, neglected, and insecure, which may hinder their ability to process emotions effectively. Without that anchor, children may struggle to develop the confidence and emotional resilience they need to thrive.
The level of emotional regulation a child experiences, even into adolescence, is proportionately linked to the parents’ emotional responsiveness.
The effects extend beyond children. Partners, family members, and friends may feel unappreciated, unseen, or disconnected. The result? Misunderstandings, resentment, and, eventually, emotional distance or conflict.
These consequences apply to you, too. If you’re emotionally absent from the people around you, chances are that you are abandoning your emotional needs as well. Over time, the awareness of missed milestones can weigh heavily. The emotional dissonance of wanting to be present but failing to do so creates stress, compounding the already high demands of your professional life.
The good news? Reconnecting emotionally doesn’t require drastic changes. It starts with small, intentional actions to prioritize what matters most and the rewards are profound.
What Does Being Emotionally Present Look Like?
Being emotionally present means having front row seats to the life you worked so hard to build.
It looks like engaging deeply and in a purposeful way with your family, friends, and wider community.
So how can you tell if you’re being emotionally present? Here are some telltale signs:
- You know your children on an intimate level. You’re knowledgeable about their fears and aspirations, and you’re available to guide them through challenges.
- Your greater network of friends and family feel loved, cared for, and seen by you.
- You’re focusing on the quality of time spent with loved ones as you intently listen, observe, and share in the moment with them.
- You feel confident in the bonds you share with your family and friends.
- You feel fulfilled in your efforts as you nurture the relationships with the people that matter the most to you.
Being emotionally present means having front-row seats to the life you worked so hard to build.
It’s understandable, however, that while the vision of emotional presence is inspiring, achieving it might feel daunting in the face of demanding schedules.
How Busy Executives Can Reclaim Emotional Presence
Finding work-life balance may feel like an elusive feat as a high-performing executive, but it’s not impossible. It starts with engaging meaningfully with work, family, and community.
Here’s how you can start.
1. Manage Your Energy, Not Just Your Time
Assess not only what takes up your time in a day, but also what takes your energy. Are there items that drain you, but are not essential to your goals and priorities? Fiercely cut them, for the sake of your family.
For example, maybe your goal is to connect deeply with your children during the hours of 6pm – 8pm. However, you find that your energy is depleted after managing household tasks, catching up with vendors, etc. Shifting this energy will help you to connect more deeply with your family.
Prioritize the quality of time spent, not just the quantity. Rather than stressing about the limited hours you have to spare, consider how you can be fully engaged. Managing your energy also looks like drawing the right boundaries around your commitments and not feeling guilty about it.
2. Delegate What You Can To Prioritize What You Can’t
Delegation is one of the most powerful tools in your arsenal. Offboarding tasks at home can free up space for emotional engagement with your family. Focus on irreplaceable roles like raising your children and showing up for your friends. Then, delegate tasks like household chores, grocery shopping, and calendar management. Whether it’s hiring a housekeeper, a personal assistant, or using services for meal prep and gift shopping, letting go of these responsibilities frees your mental bandwidth for what deserves it most.
3. Reduce Who Has Access To You And When
Modern technology makes us more accessible than ever (and comes at a cost previously mentioned). To cultivate emotional presence, you need to guard your attention fiercely. Establish clear expectations with your team about when and how they can contact you after hours. For instance, reserve evenings for family unless it’s an emergency. Turn off notifications or leave your phone in another room during meals, family outings, or bedtime routines.
Set clear parameters for who can have access to you. That could mean not making time commitments or responding to the DMs of people you’ve never met. You can also use a personal assistant to triage communication, only letting through critical messages.
4. Build a Support Team
No one achieves balance alone. A reliable support system is essential to freeing up your time and energy for meaningful connections. Try investing in high-caliber help like a skilled executive assistant who can anticipate your needs and handle tasks proactively. The key is to hire someone who isn’t just a helper, but a professional with experience managing complex responsibilities.
Achieving emotional presence as a high-performing executive isn’t about overhauling your life overnight. However, rest assured that there is a go-to service that can help you implement all of these action steps.
Let Pepper’s Personal Assistants Help You Find Balance
Delegating something as important as your home life tasks can feel risky. How can you trust that someone else will meet your expectations without constant oversight? Will your assistant just create more work for you, needing to explain what needs to be done and answering questions?
At Pepper’s Personal Assistants, we understand this concern. That’s why our personal assistants go beyond basic tasks like meal prep or laundry. Our highly skilled personal assistants are trained professionals equipped to provide executive-level support. That means you can confidently delegate without the burden of micromanaging.
We help doers like you find balance and reclaim the emotional connections in your life. While it takes a village to raise a child, it also takes a strong support system to help high achievers like you thrive.
From managing schedules and handling logistics, to fielding calls and emails, meal planning and laundry care, we help create the space for you to reclaim your emotional presence. Focus on what truly matters, and let us handle the rest.
Reach out to see how our personal assistants can help you achieve balance and peace this year.
by Jash | Dec 3, 2024 | Business, General, Health
The work-from-home (WFH) era may be over.
Companies like Apple, Dell, Starbucks, and more recently Amazon, are calling their employees back to the brick and mortar with their strict return-to-office (RTO) policies. In Seattle, home to Amazon and a large tech workforce, this could signal a larger shift with more local companies likely to follow.
For workers who enjoyed the perks of remote work, the change will be a massive shake-up for the household.
Walking the dog during lunch? Not anymore.
Managing household chores during the day? Gone.
Running a child to an appointment? Say goodbye to that flexibility.
Juggling work, home, and personal responsibilities will become harder, leaving many to wonder how they’ll manage it all.
If you’ve been affected by these recent mandates, you might be asking yourself:
- How do I get it all done?
- How do I adapt to this new normal?
- Do I need to quit my job?
Read on to find out why professionals are turning to personal assistants and how one can help you manage the RTO transition to survive and thrive in your new situation.
The Personal Cost of Losing Workplace Flexibility
For those accustomed to remote work, returning to the office doesn’t just change where they spend their workday-it fundamentally alters the rhythm of their lives. Common concerns that have rippled across social media platforms are how they’ll readjust to balancing family and household demands.
We firmly believe that increasing in-office minimums has a disproportionate and negative impact on working families – particularly for women and people of color with dependent care responsibilities.
-Karen Estevenin, executive director of PROTEC17, a union that represents more than 3,300 City of Seattle workers. Source
Remote work allowed workers to effortlessly manage their responsibilities alongside their career obligations. Now they’re left to navigate the loss of flexibility and the challenges that may come with it.
Here are some hidden costs that professionals will bear in light of the RTO mandates.
1. Losing the Ability to Manage Household Tasks During the Day
Remote work offered a significant boost to personal time, which many professionals made a part of their daily routines in meaningful ways.
For some, a daily commute takes up to four hours to and from the office. With the added flexibility of working from home or hybrid work, they gained precious hours redirected into managing household tasks.
Now with RTO mandates, they’re posed with the challenge of staying on top of essentials like paying bills, managing household finances, and restocking necessities. Not to mention, other tasks like accepting deliveries, scheduling maintenance, or overseeing other home services.
So what does this mean for employees? Simply put: It’s too much for professional couples to handle on their own, let alone a single person. The increased pressure to squeeze errands before or after work means being stretched thin, which could lead to overwhelm and burnout. And of course, errands will cut into precious time reserved for rest, family, or personal pursuits.
2. A Blow to Personal Wellness and Self-Care
With more control over their schedules, remote workers found it easy to prioritize mental health and self-care routines. The benefits, of course, were two-fold: allowing them to show up for themselves in their daily lives and their workplace.
But with the RTO mandates, strict work hours and five in-office work days now make it harder to build short breaks into their daily routines. It’s so much harder to maintain wellness routines like making a healthy lunch or meal prepping in advance.
3. Challenges In Childcare and Caretaking
It’s no surprise that balancing childcare was easier with remote work. It was a lifeline, allowing caretakers to coordinate carpools, attend extracurriculars, or even handle unexpected events like a child becoming sick-all while staying productive from home.
With RTO policies that limit flexibility, parents now face the daunting task of coordinating the needs of their children around their office hours, often requiring restructured family schedules. This added burden can quickly lead to other household tasks being neglected or going from streamlined to chaotic as parents struggle to keep everything in balance.
Is Quitting an Option?
Faced with these demands, some professionals may consider stepping away from their roles. The sudden loss of flexibility can feel like losing control over their time and life. While some may no doubt take that route, for many quitting is not an option. For example, high-income earners whose careers contribute significantly to their long-term financial goals, are instead exploring alternatives to buy back time and find balance in their daily lives.
Luckily, quitting isn’t the only option. Outsourcing household management and personal errands to a dedicated personal assistant has proven to be a valuable investment for many.
Rather than sacrificing their long-term career trajectory, high-earning professionals are choosing to streamline their lives by offloading time-consuming tasks to a reliable professional. They’ve weighed the cost of investing in support and realized that stepping back now could mean missing out on future earning potential. Many are willing to take a short-term loss to protect their long-term income and career growth.
How Personal Assistants Can Help With the Transition
If you’re feeling the impact of the RTO shift, questions around managing home and family responsibilities are likely front of mind: Who will take care of my pets? How will I stay on top of household errands? Can I really manage a demanding career without sacrificing family time? This transition may have left you with feelings of frustration. The good news is, there is help.
Personal assistants have provided a lifeline for many and can provide one for you, too. As the demands of office-based work grow, more high-income professionals are recognizing that the cost of a personal assistant is an investment, not an expense.
Personal assistants offer a range of support, from managing home logistics to handling daily administrative tasks. They’ll serve as a reliable extension of your support system, enabling you to keep pace with your career goals without sacrificing your home life.
Here’s how a personal assistant can make a difference in your life:
1. Coordinating with service providers and vendors: Perhaps you were better able to take a quick call to book a plumber or pause between meetings to accept a package. Now you find yourself with fewer options. These tasks may be left incomplete, or they require complex planning and coordination with family members or friends. A personal assistant can book appointments, arrange for a service provider, or accept packages.
2. Managing family logistics: From scheduling kids’ activities, arranging transportation, and coordinating with babysitters, to taking care of grocery shopping and meal planning, a personal assistant can alleviate the strain of balancing family needs with professional commitments.
3. Supporting wellness and self-care: By taking on errands, meal prep, and other routine responsibilities, a personal assistant can free up time that you can then dedicate to personal wellness. Whether it’s scheduling gym sessions, organizing self-care appointments, or handling lunch arrangements, a personal assistant will allow you to prioritize your health, even within a more rigid, office-based schedule.
A personal assistant may be an investment, but it’s also a transformative one. Take it from Seattle resident Maygan Wurzer, a Seattle business owner who found herself drowning as she tried to balance work and life on her own. She praises Pepper’s Personal Assistants as “The best money I’ve ever spent,” noting that the peace of mind she got from it was priceless.
Pepper’s Personal Assistants Can Help You
At Pepper’s Personal Assistants, we specialize in placing top-tier professionals who understand the demands of high-stakes careers and complex schedules. Our assistants are trained to adapt, ensuring you receive reliable, hands-free support without the hassle of micro-managing.
Our approach is straightforward with no onboarding headaches-just ready-to-go assistance tailored to the specific needs of your life. With Pepper’s Personal Assistants, you can focus on what matters most and do more of what you love, knowing that your home and family needs are in expert hands. Are you ready to see how a personal assistant can transform your routine?
Schedule a call to learn how we can make your life easier and help you thrive through a return-to-office transition.
by Jash | Nov 7, 2024 | Business, General, Home, Organizational, Outsourcing
When deciding between an executive assistant and a personal assistant, it’s essential to understand the unique roles each plays. While both provide invaluable support, the scope and focus of their tasks are quite different. Here’s a breakdown of how these roles differ and how a personal assistant from Pepper’s Personal Assistants can uniquely benefit you.
Executive Assistant: The Professional Focus
An executive assistant typically operates in a professional setting, primarily supporting senior executives or high-level managers in a company. Their tasks are centered around the corporate environment and include:
- Managing calendars and scheduling meetings
- Handling correspondence, emails, and calls on behalf of the executive
- Organizing travel arrangements for business trips
- Coordinating corporate events or board meetings
- Preparing reports and presentations
Executive assistants are the backbone of an executive’s professional life, ensuring that work responsibilities are handled efficiently and with precision. While their responsibilities can occasionally overlap with personal tasks, their focus is mainly on business operations and administrative support.
Pepper’s Personal Assistant: The Personal & Household Focus
A personal assistant from Pepper’s provides a much broader range of services, tailored to both personal and household needs. They go beyond the office, managing your home and personal life to give you peace of mind. Here’s how a Pepper’s personal assistant can help:
- Household Management: From running errands to managing household staff, a personal assistant ensures that your home is running smoothly.
- Event Planning: Whether it’s organizing a child’s birthday party or coordinating a family vacation, personal assistants take care of the details.
- Personal Errands: Shopping for groceries, handling dry cleaning, or picking up gifts—your personal assistant can take on these tasks so you can focus on more important matters.
- Home Organization: Need help with organizing your home office or decluttering your living spaces? A personal assistant can take care of that, too.
With a personal assistant in Seattle, you’re getting a hands-on helper who can provide support across various aspects of your life, ensuring both personal and professional tasks are handled with care.
Why Hire a Personal Assistant?
The real benefit of hiring a personal assistant is the flexibility and personalization they bring to your daily life. Instead of just focusing on work tasks like an executive assistant, a personal assistant integrates into your home and personal world, giving you more time to focus on the things that matter most—your career, family, and personal well-being.
Key Benefits of Hiring a Personal Assistant from Pepper’s:
- Comprehensive support for both personal and household tasks
- Customized high quality service
- Flexibility in handling day-to-day errands and unexpected tasks
- Tailored assistance to fit your family’s needs
- More time to focus on professional or family priorities
- Stress reduction
- Experienced and we do it all for you
At Pepper’s Personal Assistants, we believe in providing a service that covers every corner of your life. From personal errands to organizing your household, we’re here to make your life easier. Check out how our household management services can help you or read more about a day in the life of a personal assistant.
Ready to experience the benefits of hiring a personal assistant? Contact us today or schedule a consultation and see how we can make a difference in your life!
by Kara | Oct 24, 2024 | General, Home, Organizational, Outsourcing, Residential
Have you ever imagined having someone take care of all those tasks that consume your day? Let’s dive into a typical day in the life of a personal assistant and see how they can bring ease and simplicity to your life.
9:00 AM – Setting the Tone for the Day
Your household assistant arrives, bringing a sense of calm and focus as they prepare to tackle the day. They begin by reviewing your schedule and to-do list, scanning your communication channels for any pressing matters. With a load of laundry started, the house tidied up, and a shopping list prepared, they ensure that your day flows smoothly, leaving you free to focus on what truly matters.
10:00 AM – Running Those Never-Ending Errands
Picture your personal assistant expertly navigating their route, efficiently checking off your errands. Need groceries, dry cleaning picked up, or a special gift sourced? Your assistant handles it all with care and by the time they return, your errands are complete and you haven’t had to lift a finger.
12:00 PM – Bringing Meals to Life
Your kitchen becomes a haven of culinary creativity as your personal assistant whips up meals tailored just for you. Whether it’s a favorite family recipe or something new to delight your taste buds, they handle the cooking and also the clean-up, that way you can enjoy the delicious results without the hassle. Imagine coming home to the comforting aroma of a home-cooked meal, ready to be enjoyed together.
1:00 PM – Keeping Your Home in Perfect Order
As the afternoon unfolds, your personal assistant keeps things running smoothly. The kitchen and dining areas are cleaned, laundry is folded, every room is tidied up and trash is taken out. By the time they’re done, your home is a sanctuary of order and tranquility.
2:00 PM – Managing Life’s Details
Your personal assistant is on the phone coordinating every last detail for your upcoming event. Whether it’s organizing a special occasion, overseeing a home improvement project, or arranging travel plans, they manage it all with thoughtful precision. You just rest easy knowing that every aspect is handled, leaving you free to enjoy the moments that matter.
4:00 PM – Wrapping Up the Day
As the day winds down, your personal assistant makes sure everything is in place, leaving your home in perfect order. They’ll be back tomorrow or any other day, ready to pick up where they left off with the same dedication and care.
At Pepper’s Personal Assistants, we understand that every home is unique, which is why we tailor our services to meet your specific needs and schedule. By welcoming a personal assistant into your life, you can let go of the daily tasks that drain your time and energy, allowing you to focus on what truly matters.
Ready to simplify your life? Contact us today or schedule a call to learn more about how Pepper’s Personal Assistants can bring ease and joy to your life.
by Kara | Jul 25, 2024 | General, Grocery, Health, Home, Organizational, Outsourcing, Residential
Being a wife, mother, and career professional can pull you in many directions. In addition to raising a family and growing your career, you have many other responsibilities: errands, laundry, meal planning, and keeping everything in your household running smoothly each day.
Managing all these obligations, especially when you don’t get enough help, can quickly lead to feeling overwhelmed. However, it doesn’t have to be that way. By creating more efficiencies in your life and getting some professional help, you can improve your work-life balance and do more of the things you love.
The Challenges of Being a Working Mom and Wife
Full-time working moms are often still responsible for managing the bulk of childcare and household management activities. A Gallup study found that, in both single- and dual-income homes, women are significantly more likely than men to be responsible for chores such as doing laundry, preparing meals, caring for children, and cleaning the home.
Additionally, because moms are responsible for so many of these activities, they also carry more of the associated mental load of invisible tasks such as planning, anticipating, following up, and decision-making.
For many women, the pressure to do it all and be a “supermom” can result in feelings of stress, overwhelm, and burnout. In fact, an estimated 42 percent of working moms have been diagnosed with anxiety or depression—far more than the general population (28 percent).
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Tips for Saving Time, Reducing Your Stress, and Achieving Better Balance
If you’re feeling overwhelmed as a mother and wife, you don’t have to spend your days feeling exhausted, overworked, or paralyzed by a messy house. You can take the following steps to transform your life and get more time for what matters most:
1. Set meaningful goals.
To address the stressors in your life, it’s critical to identify them and set goals for your ideal future state. You can get started by making a list of all the things you love to do and those you detest and would love to get off your plate entirely.
For instance, if you feel grocery shopping and running errands take up too much time, you can create a goal to reduce the time those tasks take—perhaps by ordering online or limiting errands to a specific number of times per month. Once you’ve established your goals, you can prioritize them and commit to making the changes that turn those goals into reality.
2. Create efficiencies in everyday tasks.
Though you may have performed certain chores the same way for years, it’s worth considering that there might be a more efficient way to get them done. For example, you may find that meal planning simplifies grocery shopping and meal prep, and creating a home maintenance schedule helps to cut down on the number of calls for repairs.
Sometimes, the only way to know if something works for you is to try it. Once you’ve identified strategies to streamline tasks and eliminate unnecessary steps, you can implement your new approach for a week or two to assess its impact. Even the smallest tweaks can significantly improve how you spend your time.
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3. Get household help.
If you’ve been responsible for managing everything around the home, kids’ schedules, and family activities, it can be challenging to let go and consider outsourcing some of those tasks. However, when you do, you can tackle your to-do list and get more time for the priorities you’ve set for yourself—whether it’s to spend more quality family time, dedicate yourself to more philanthropic work, or have more time for self-care.
Outsourcing chores to a household assistant is an excellent way to get reliable, professional help for everyday chores and home projects. Household assistants aren’t just for celebrities and the superrich; you, too, can have an assistant to perform any of the following:
- Doing laundry and dropping off/picking up dry cleaning
- Making and rescheduling appointments
- Planning, prepping, and cleaning up after meals
- Shopping for groceries
- Making returns
- Caring for pets and taking them to the vet
- Planning travel
- Managing home renovation and redecorating projects
- Managing and supervising vendors
Say Goodbye to Feeling Overwhelmed as a Mom and Wife
If there’s a disconnect between where you want to dedicate your energy and passion and how you actually spend your time, it’s time for a change. While you can create new efficiencies with some tasks, there may be others you want to offload completely. A household assistant can help you do that and much more, allowing you to take ownership of your time and enjoy your life more fully.
To see all you can achieve with professional household help, check out our guide, What Your Life Could Look Like with a Household Assistant.
by Kara | Jul 23, 2024 | General, Grocery, Health, Home, Organizational, Outsourcing, Residential
A household assistant may seem like a luxury reserved only for celebrities and the super-rich, but it’s not. Household help is attainable and can completely transform your life and home for the better. Having a personal assistant in Seattle to run errands, perform household chores, and help with home projects means you can tackle your to-do list and have more time for your personal passions. And, managing an assistant requires much less oversight than you might think.
What does a personal household assistant do?
A household assistant is a partner in maintaining your home, helping you focus on your career, family, and whatever else is important to you. Your assistant can manage the day-to-day tasks of doing laundry and tidying rooms and also help you reimagine a room or other area of your home. Personal household assistance can include any of the following services:
- Shopping for groceries and running other errands
- Prepping meals and organizing the pantry/fridge
- Doing laundry and dropping off/picking up dry cleaning
- Planning travel, including packing and unpacking
- Managing and supervising household vendors
- Taking care of pets, including taking them to the vet if needed
- Managing home dream projects
If you’ve ever wondered if you even need a household assistant or if you have enough for an assistant to do, consider this: a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics study found that household chores eat up an average of 21.5 hours per week—or three hours a day.
When you add that to the time you spend on your career and other obligations, there’s not much time left over for you, which can lead to stress or burnout. With a household assistant, you can add three more hours to each day and reduce the stress of trying to manage an ever-growing to-do list.
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What does managing a household assistant look like?
Given all that you do in a given day, it may seem like doing things yourself will take less time and fuss than explaining it to someone else. Not so! The right personal assistant service can match you with a skilled and professional assistant who can take work off your hands and get it done to your specifications.
As with any new relationship, developing a routine and rhythm with your personal assistant takes time. However, the more feedback you provide in the first weeks of the relationship, the sooner you’ll be up and running. Soon, your assistant will require less of your time and will be equipped to work independently. After the first few months working with a Pepper’s assistant, you can expect to dedicate only about 15 minutes per week for a quick check-in.
What’s it like working with a Pepper’s household assistant?
Our personal assistants in Seattle are well-trained and eager to make your life easier. Our clients say their Pepper’s assistants are:
- Professional but friendly
- Flexible
- Thoughtful and discerning
- Detail-oriented, with organizational superpowers
- Trustworthy and reliable
- Caring
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Here are some examples of the feedback we’ve received:
“My PA is incredible—an 11 out of 10—really thoughtful, thorough, and intuitive. She is professional but friendly; she has just been great.” —Libby
“One of the massive benefits of having a PA is during travel disruptions. When flights are delayed, the kids are upset, and you’re stuck in customs, coming home to a stocked fridge and a prepared meal eliminates the need for a late-night milk run. You don’t realize the stress these tasks add until you have someone to handle them for you.” —A.S.
“My PA is a thoughtful and discerning assistant. She pays attention to details in our home and makes great suggestions for how to improve and optimize our lives. We trust her judgment, and she communicates proactively and frequently. She is always on time and patient with my unpredictable schedule.” —Client
How do I get started with Pepper’s in Seattle?
Our passion is helping you get things done without having to do it all yourself. Our personal assistants in Seattle are skilled in supporting your busy life so you can enjoy it more. Each assistant is heavily vetted and evaluated for the right fit for your home and lifestyle needs.
If you’re ready for household help that will give you your time back, reach out anytime or schedule a call to get matched with your personal assistant in Seattle.
