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Hello and welcome to Six Minute English.
I'm Neil and joining me, it's Rob.
Hello, now Rob, would you say you're someone who's quite organised?
Oh, I'd like to think so.
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.
That's a good idea and something we can include in today's discussion about life admin.
Admin is short for administration that describes the activities and tasks you have to do to make a business or organisation run smoothly.
But life admin is administration you have to do to make your day-to-day life run smoothly,
like doing housework or paying a bill.
And the first thing on my to-do list is to ask you and the listeners a question.
Hmm, yes, we wouldn't want to forget that.
So, the website hotels.com commissioned some research about how much time young adults, that's millennials, spend doing life admin.
Do you know what proportion of their free time they spend doing life admin tasks?
Is it A, a quarter of a day?
B, a third of a day, C, half a day.
Based on my personal experience, I would say about a quarter of a day.
Well, we'll see if you're the same as other people at the end of the programme.