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The Personal Assistant 

Imaging you have your very on personal assistant. Now this new PA you just hired is the best in town: the proverbial Mary Poppins of personal assistants. From the experience with your previous PA (who retired of old age), you know your newly acquired PA will, from first meeting onward, subtley monitor your behaviour, learning over time your likes, dislikes, preferences and inconsistencies.

Your PA (Anne Droydde) learnt what she knows from the best PAs that ever existed, and has developed a few methods of her own.  

They'll learn what you do, how often you do them and when you do them. A good PA will do all this without you even noticing they are. They'll even make mental note of what you sayyou'll do vs. what you actually do; and the same regarding what you say you want, and what you actually buy. The best PR's even no when to silently ignore and never mention things you wish to be private. 

Now why does this PR, the best in town, monitor and remember you behaviour? For one understated reason:

to pre-empt you

To what end? How does this help them as your so called "perfect" PA? Again understatedly, to provide the perfect service:

having taken care of everything preventing you from immediately doing that which you most desire

So that you can rest assured that everything is under control.

A perfect PR empowers you to: 

• be spontaneous, impulsive, and in the moment
  • nothing's stopping you, so you can do what you want right now, not later
  • forgetten why you started (or if you even did start) that app that (finally) launched?
  • lost great ideas whilst searching for a pen and paper with which to record them?
• free yourself from the guilts of those forgotten appointments, bills & birthdays; 
  • by managing them for you
• change your mind, project & activity as often as you want to
  • without fear of losing where you were

• your PR would
  • take over management of your administrative tasks
  • respect your preferences, and let you change them whenever you like
  • automate for you everything which can be
  • ensure your services always are the best value available
  • remind you before and on important events (eg. birthdays), unless u request automated responses
  • interrupt you if you've requested to be
  • only interrupt you when would likely have wanted to be, but your preference is yet unknown
  • only interrupt you when absolutely necessary
  • notify you (without interrupting you) of things which require attention, but not immediate
  • make decisions as you would have
  • go against your predicted decision of the alternative is outright better
  • never go against your explicit preferences
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  • and ensured are best value (optimised!)
• loss free 
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• a "mind like water"; the ability to a spontaneously 

 So that - most importantly of all - the perfect PR lets you   

and have everything already in place so you can immediately act on it.