How regularly are you working late, wondering what it would be like to be somewhere else – relaxing in the hot tub, down at the local theatre with your friends or lifting weights at the gym? How often do you feel that small pang of guilt when you can’t make it to your children’s martial arts tournaments, or when you have to ask the butler to pick them up from school?
This is really a very common scenario. Any form of work-life balance is very hard to achieve if you’re stuck between ‘a rock and a hard place’. You want to get out of it, yet you feel like you can’t because there is just too much on your plate at the moment, or you simply can’t afford to be taking the time off.
So what can you do to get this balance back in your life? Based on your specific personal situation, there are probably quite a few solutions which could appear – it might be that you just haven’t realised any of them yet.
A possible solution, or perhaps – a perfect solution, is to hire a virtual assistant. This solution is just like working with a personl online assistant who acts as your virtual – genie in a lamp. For most VA’s, when it comes to business, your wish is there command. Maybe you’ve thought of hiring a virtual assistant before, but weren’t sure of what you would do with them – in other words, where do you start when considering outsourcing services?
Well, first of all it would be a really good idea to initially take a good look at your schedule – daily, weekly and monthly. Write down 2 lists:
1. The first list will be a list of the things that you do, that you really don’t enjoy doing or don’t want to do at all.
2. The second is a list of things that you don’t do, but which you’d really like to be doing.
Then, my advice would be to do a search on the internet for virtual assistants, either on Google, virtual assistant directories or through networking sites such as Ecademy.
Then pick your top 5 potential virtual assistants. Go for ones where you like the way that they present themselves and their business – scan over their range of services, check their rates, look over their FAQ’s and get a feel for whether they might be the right one for you.
Then, send via email the entirety of your completed lists to the VA’s you have chosen, and with this also insert a short note underneath which says something like; this is what I need done, can you help me, and how would you go about making this happen?
Asking will cost you nothing at all, and it will give you good insight into how various virtual assistants can take the pressure off you, helping you to regain your work-life balance. At the end of the exercise you will have gained some valuable tips for dealing with a VA, and you’ll discover what these special individuals can do to help you to achieve work days which involve doing more of what you’d really like, and less of what you don’t, and finally, right here, you may well have just found the person who can make all of this happen for you.
Either way, you have nothing to lose – and everything to gain! Best of all, this insight is completely FREE!
Michelle Dale is The Managing Director of Virtual Miss Friday, an Executive Virtual Assistant who assists businesses and individuals with achieving their professional goals. Want to find out more about online business building success strategies? Support the Campaign for FREE Virtual Assistance right now!
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