If you’re finding there aren’t enough hours in the day, it might be time to hand over some of your day-to-day tasks to someone else in the form of a Virtual Assistant (VA).

A secretary or personal assistant that’s ‘virtual’, so they don’t have to be employed by you or located in your office. They could be local or even in a different country.

You’re spending too much time:

• working on day to day tasks,
• dealing with admin tasks – email, finance, accounts,
• arrange meetings or making travel plans,
• on tasks that don’t generate business or income,
• avoiding the tasks you don’t like doing,
• putting off more important tasks.

If you had more time available you’d be able to:

• … clear your daily to-do list,
• … work on some of your great ideas,
• … implement or put into practice new or improved systems and processes.
• … fix things that are broken – IT, systems, processes
• … research new products, services, ideas
• … grow your business.

You can’t take time out because it’s only you!

• Never take time for a holiday.
• Have to take work with you when you do.
• Often work at evenings and weekends.
• Always on the go.

You have an ever growing list of things to do and feel you need more than one of you, it may be time to find a virtual assistant. If you free up more of your time and stop working ‘in’ the business, you could focus more time working ‘on’ your business.

See also: Choosing a VA

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