But it wasn’t easy at first. For him OR me. It took me years of trial and error to figure this stuff out (stuff like automating text so I don’t have to type out my address/phone number/email 20x per day, creating invoices in 2 seconds, and filtering emails).

It took diving into overly complicated setup instructions. I’m sure you’ve seen them: random forum posts and articles giving you the 10 “easy” steps to automate XYZ, then you look at it and it’s basically jibberish that you feel like you need a computer science degree to figure out.

It all started when I was in a leadership position and to be successful at my job, I needed to support my team and help THEM be successful. A big part of that was quickly accessing information and background info about each client and getting it to my team. All this info was on paper, so I decided to digitize it, but then came the dilemma.

How would I digitize hundreds of documents without taking weeks of my life doing the boring, mind-numbing task of scanning, naming, and organizing every single document?

My wife and I had just bought our first house, and we were working hard to pay down our mortgage as much as we could before we started our family. Let’s just say that I was extremely motivated to do anything that I could be successful in my career.

But digitizing these documents, naming them, organizing them, and working with them was taking WAY too long. I felt like I was spending more time setting this up than I was just having everything on paper. Have you ever felt that way with a new tool you’ve tried out?

Then I realized: there are a lot of tools out there that can automate 95% of the manual tasks I was doing. My computer could save me time instead of stealing it.

Personal automation was the key to finally freeing up my time.

But it was a pain to figure out.

I found all these great tools, but man, a lot of them are more complicated than their websites make it look! I’m not a programmer, but I’m pretty technical and even for me, I had to spend a lot of time messing around to get the tools to do what I wanted. They’re not user-friendly for non-programmers like us, and the instructions don’t make sense a lot of the time.

But I kept going, and after hours and hours of time, I finally had my perfect automation system set up. I was able to set up automated systems that saved me hours of digging through paper, and I became much more responsive and helpful to my team.

As my company was acquired a few times, I had the opportunity to move up through the organization, and was able to travel to special management programs in places like New York and Boston, and I presented automation tips at our client conferences.

Now, whenever I run into a challenge, especially a technical challenge, I know there’s a solution — it’s just a matter of figuring out what it is. This project gave me the confidence to do that.

I realized I love helping people with technology, and that encouraged me to shift my career to helping others realize that they can be more productive using technology. That led to moving out of corporate and to doing what I love instead of what just paid the bills.

Then I successfully taught automation to my dad, and I knew anyone could do it (again, he’s a smart guy — tech’s just not his thing).

Now my dad and I are both automation pros. It’s changed our lives.

But before I get into the specifics and all the scripts we use, I want to ask you something:

1. You know the benefits of automation but haven’t set it up yet.

2. You’ve tried automation and even checked out a couple tools like TextExpander or Hazel, but when you tried initial setup, you got overwhelmed.

3. You’ve tried to automate your workflow in the past, but you found that trying to set up the automation program took you longer than it would have just to do it manually. You’d like to automate, but you’ve been afraid to try again.

If any of that sounds like you, then I’m guessing one of these is true:

1. You don’t know where to start with automation, and you don’t want to waste time on automation that takes longer than doing it manually.

2. You don’t know if automation will work for you.

3. You’re not technical (as one of our clients said, “Coding and scripts scare me, I don’t even know what they are.”)

There’s a reason you’re stuck, and it’s not your fault. You’re not alone.

You’ve probably blamed yourself for not being able to figure automation out, but the truth is that it’s not easy. There are 3 main reasons people can’t automate:

Imagine never doing a repetitive task on your computer or phone again.

Creating expense requests and submitting expenses for reimbursements…

ALL of it happens in less than a second. Effortlessly. And you did zero coding or setup yourself. It was all just taken care of. It all works flawlessly, so you never have to check it to be sure it worked.

You save 5+ hours a week, getting 250 hours a year of your life back. That’s over 10 days of your life!

What would you do with an extra hour every workday?

An extra hour a day is a life changer. I know, because I have it. And so does my dad: the least tech-savvy person on the planet.

That’s why I’m so excited to show you how to get that: automation that works — effortlessly.

Here’s everything you’ll get to save 5+ hours per week.

You’ll get plug-and-play automation scripts that you can download and use with just a couple clicks (and zero technical setup or coding skills). These scripts will:

These workflows and scripts took Thanh, me, and the rest of the Asian Efficiency team YEARS to build organically over time. But you can get it all right now — with zero coding or technical setup.