Do you avoid or defer tasks to sometime never? Procrastination is an avoidance behavior which causes us to delay actions or tasks until later. For you this may result in stress, guilt, loss of productivity and the creation of crisis. And worse, it may generate all sorts of knock-on results for others in your work and personal life when you do not fulfill your responsibilities or commitments. But most importantly of all - is your procrastination limiting your financial success? Pass the "back-burner" items to a Virtual Assistant and don't worry about it anymore.
Low Productivity or High Productivity?
Marketing, client service, delegation, new product and service ideas and revenue generation are your most important business activities. It’s important to stay focused on them. Identify your top priorities, take small, consistent action toward your goals, and focus on profit producing activities to grow your business. Maintaining focus and concentration, developing personal rituals, daily creative silence and trusting intuition are also some of the habits to cultivate to get you out of overwhelm and support you in being your best. Focus on those important BIG items and delegate the small stuff to your VA!
I Can Do It All
It’s impossible to achieve a big vision alone. Let others handle the technology and administration for you - don’t try to do it all yourself. Leverage is an important business concept used to achieve greater income, and you can’t get leverage if you are doing all of the work yourself. Use the talents of virtual assistants so that you can focus on your strengths and do what you do best. You can start small with delegating just a few hours of administrative work a week, and grow from there. Expert support is widely available. You just need to know where to find them!
The Growth is Great...or Is It?
When you have just a few clients, running your business is easy. But once you reach expert status with a full roster of clients, products, seminars, live events, strategic alliances and joint ventures you get too busy to handle it all. To avoid this, you need to develop systems in your business: systems for working with clients, processing payments, handling e-mail and customer support, publishing articles and a newsletter, running your web sites, and managing your schedule. Whew, that could be overwhelming! Many business functions can be handed off to a virtual assistant, freeing you up to do more high level work. Partnering with a VA will help you streamline your business so you can work less and make more. An entrepreneur is a business owner. And a business owner should occupy a position outside of the everyday operations of the business itself. You must work *on* your business and not *in* your business to be a true entrepreneur. An entrepreneur is “one who creates value by shifting economic resources from low yield activities to areas where they would be more productive.”
How Can I Get Rid of All of This Junk E-mail?
You're spending too much time deleting the spam from your inbox, checking into the validity of link exchange requests and responding back to your customers on general support issues.
Provide access to your VA so he/she can go in to your e-mail inbox and delete the spam for you! You can have your VA do customer support as well as manage link exchange requests. By giving away this one, simple task, you'll save at least 30 minutes each day - those minutes add up!