Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant
I began work as a Virtual Assistant in 2010, so not much about my daily routine changed in 2020 when people started to work from home. For others, though, the change was dramatic. There was no more commuting, packing a lunch, spending time in traffic, or dressing for the office.
I noticed that many p...
When you’re a Virtual Assistant who’s not making money or hitting your financial goals, it seems commonsensical to wait until you’re making money to invest in your business.
Even if you have money to invest from your job or savings, you feel the business needs to deserve the investment by being able ...
My husband Greg and I are in the process of moving from Connecticut to Virginia. We began migrating our things on January 29th when we closed on the house. We will be completely moved in, chickens and all, by April 1st.
The distance between our old home and our new home is 415 miles, so there has bee...
As Virtual Assistants, we are natural helpers. We enjoy making the lives of others better through our contributions. We’re driven by deadlines and an innate need to cross tasks off our to-do list.
When our clients are action-oriented, responsive, and excited about our work with them, it’s exhilaratin...
At the beginning of 2023, I decided to start saying no more often. No, to projects that weren’t moving the needle in my business and growing our community. No, to distractions and diversions in my day that took me away from how I wanted to spend my time. No, to people-pleasing.
I remember the moment ...
Have you ever been on an airplane and heard the flight attendant explain that in the event of a drop in the cabin air pressure, everyone has to put their mask on before helping anyone else?
There’s a good reason for this - if you don’t take care of yourself first, you risk being unable to help anyone...
One week ago today, my husband Greg and I bought a farmhouse in Virginia.
From the outside, it might seem like the whole thing happened quickly, but it was a long road.
The process began 13 years ago when I started to rebuild my credit, file my back taxes, pay off my debt, learn how to be a successful...
When I started my Virtual Assistant business in 2010, I had my head in the sand when it came to my finances.
Not wanting to know how much debt I actually had, I continued to make financial decisions based on my feelings and avoided the facts of my reality. For some crazy reason, doing this made me fe...
In 2001, I became a first-time entrepreneur when I opened an online baby gift boutique named Blueberry Babies.
Afraid people wouldn’t take me seriously if they knew I was working alone, I built a façade to make my business look bigger than just me.
I created email aliases for “departments” in my busin...
When we want our lives to change, we usually hope our circumstances will be better than they are right now. The problem is that when that happens, and life improves, most of the time, we still want it to be better than it is right now.
Not only is it human nature, but the result is we don’t realize o...
