Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant

When you’re just starting out as a Virtual Assistant, it can be difficult to know what to do first.

You might wonder: Should I work on my website? My social media accounts? Get my business license? Order business cards? Or a gazillion other things that are flying around in your head.

I understand ...

As a Virtual Assistant, when we’re out with friends, networking, or meeting someone new, we are often asked the question, “What do you do for work?”

Sometimes, when this happens, we are not prepared with a well-thought-out answer. So we wing it … not a good idea!

When we wing it, we tend to start talk...

The question I get asked the most by new VAs is “What are the skills I need to have in order to make really good money?”

And I can see by the look on their faces that they hope I’m going to hand them the magic list that will get them where they want to be.

But I don’t have the list they are looki...

Last week, I was talking to my friend Isabelle about multi-tasking. She told me that she thinks of multi-tasking as nothing more than starting and stopping multiple tasks over and over, really fast.

And when I thought about that for a second, I thought, wow – that’s exactly what it is, and it soun...

Last Sunday afternoon, my husband Greg and I went shopping at a big-chain grocery store. We noticed a sign in the window as we walked inside that said “Corn – eight ears for $2.00.” This got my attention immediately since I love eating corn, as do the chickens.

While checking out, we scanned our re...

Did you like playing office when you were a kid? I did. I would spend hours setting up my desk, organizing my paper clips, sharpening my pencils, and pretending to talk on the phone while taking notes on my steno pad.

But now there’s a lot more at stake. We have families to take care of, responsibi...

I hear this often from my Virtual Assistant students:  “I just need X more clients and I’ll be all set.”

I’ve never understood this, since the quantity of work for each client fluctuates greatly. I have worked with over 200 clients these last 11 years and not one of them has remained consistent wi...

Sue, a VA Connection community member, reached out to me this week for help with client boundary-setting. She said that her clients want their work done immediately, often outside of her usual working hours.

She’s not alone. This is a common complaint in the VA world. Many times, Virtual Assistant...