Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant
Last week, I spent five days at Harrisville Designs in NH, taking a class with nine other students to learn how to weave on a loom. Weaving is something I have wanted to try for a couple of decades, and I was thrilled when this opportunity lined up with my schedule.
Even though it seems...
When you begin working as a Virtual Assistant, it’s easy not to set a schedule for your days. After all, you’re now the boss, and you get to choose how you spend your time, right? This is what you’ve been wanting for so long – time freedom.
Not knowing where to...
Every day, I hear the phrase, “I know I’m just overthinking this,” from my introverted Virtual Assistant students. This usually happens when they’re trying something for the first time, whether sending an announcement about their new business, setting up their LinkedIn...
For the majority of my life, I have had a routine. A routine as a student, a routine as an employee, a routine as a mom, and now, a routine as an empty-nesting business owner.
For most of my life, my routine was organized...
You were already busy before you decided to start a business as a Virtual Assistant. Grocery shopping, house cleaning, bill paying, yard work, family and friend time, and maybe a few minutes for yourself (but probably not).
You’ve got dreams. You want to quit your job. You want to work from...
It’s easy to get discouraged when starting a business as a Virtual Assistant. The tendency is to want several clients right, away and many people get impatient when that doesn’t happen.
I want to tell you something that will help when these thoughts occur to you. There...
As you already know, I'm so excited about The VA Connection® LIVE conference I'm hosting in October. I can’t wait to be in a room with like-minded Virtual Assistants ready to uplevel their businesses and themselves so they can live their best lives as business owners (and...
When starting a Virtual Assistant business, we tell ourselves that before we tell anyone about our business, we need to wait until everything is ready. But what we really mean is wait until everything is “perfect.”
We all have our own unique list of what “perfect”...
The older I get, the more urgent my life becomes regarding some of the goals I have set for myself. The goal that has an urgency for me right now is buying a home with Greg. That doesn’t mean we’ll be placing an offer any time soon, but we’re in action.
There are many...
A common activity for new Virtual Assistants is “prospecting for clients.” I see this all time. They spend time looking for people who could “use some help” and think about posting flyers and business cards or introducing themselves to all the business owners in town....
