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Larry Chiangby Rory Vaden, 2010 NSA Convention Presenter
You wake up. Immediately you notice how tired you are from staying up too late the night before “catching up on things”. One of the first things you do is grab your phone and anxiety sets in as you notice that somehow you already have over a dozen emails waiting for you! On the way to work you anguish over your growing to do list with items carrying over from weeks before. You sit down at work to start answering some of these emails and to your horror you find that they are coming in faster than you can send them out! Not only that but every time you send one out it’s almost like you get 2 back! Throughout the day you have voicemails, texts, social networking messages, meetings, personal errands to run, client follow up, and a whole series of interruptions that constantly leaves you feeling like your behind. Sound familiar? Ever think that just “keeping up” with everything could be a full time job? Guess what? You might be right.
This lifestyle is astoundingly and sadly common among ambitious professionals and it is created by the one common problem that many of us have which is a lack of systems to manage workflow. Fortunately there is a new modern solution; it’s called Virtual Assistants – or what I more appropriately referred to as “Virtual Assistance”.
The days of only top executives having assistants are over. In this internet age hundreds of thousands of people are turning to a rapidly developing trend of working with VAs. They are fairly easy to find, cheaper than you might expect, and if you know “the system” for working with them they can dramatically change your lifestyle. Here is the 6 step process for finding, hiring, training, and working with quality VAs.
- Step 1 -Question Yourself critically If you’ve been following my work for a while you know that one of the antitheses of the disciplined “Take The Stairs Mentality” is what we call creative avoidance. That is creating busy work for yourself just to avoid doing things you know you need to be doing. No amount of VA will solve your lack of discipline so be brutally honest and decide first if you can eliminate some of these tasks or if there is legitimate admin work that needs more time than you have.
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Great ideas on Virtual Assistants, I am bringing my VA Maria with me to NSA (for the 3rd year in a row) to enjoy the staff track and she is also going to be presenting a section in my Productivity Session on how speakers can work with a VA too, come join me!