I’ve had a frantic couple of weeks. My workload has been pretty hefty. There were quite a few late nights. I have courses launching in Melbourne Sydney
and Brisbane and I’ve been juggling all
of this with family issues, client
deadlines and my own health issues as well.
Feeling exhausted and a little flat I stopped
for that all important mid morning cuppa and as Melbourne had decided to throw
on a spectacular sunny spring day for a change, I decided I might take my
beverage out into the garden for a bit.
What a great idea that turned out to be.
As I sat there in my seat letting the breeze
blow through my hair and my soul . I smelt
the roses blooming in my garden I realised just how much I needed this short
break and maybe I should start scheduling these moments into my hectic
day. Sometimes it is just great to
STOP. Not do anything. Just let the wind blow. I could literally feel the “calm” start to
settle in. Sometimes we all need to “stop
and smell the roses”.
Life is hectic.
Running a business is at times a high pressure environment. Clarity of thought is important when making important
decisions and sometimes with the pace of work we don’t have the space for clear
thinking. Keeping your head in the game sometimes means taking your head OUT of
the game, just for 5 or 10 minutes. Feel
yourself breath, feel the sun on your skin.
Smell those Roses.
I admit it.
There are some jobs in my business I’m just not good at. There are also
other jobs I just plain don’t like doing.
A Virtual Assistant usually works in a solo
role but there is absolutely no reason why a Virtual Assistant can’t use a team
of people to get the work done. Let me
explain.
I know next to nothing about web maintenance
and uploads. Some of my clients need
this service from me, but, I know if I took it on it would take me a long time
to do, (cos I’m not good at it) and I would probably make costly mistakes and
end up having to fix them. A VA colleaugue
of mine is a wiz at these types of jobs and loves doing them. Instead I sub-contract the work to her. It’s a win situation all round. She does a perfect job every time. I don’t have to do the thing I’m not good
at. The client is happy because they got
a complete service and because my colleague gives me a really good rate for giving her
this work she didn’t have to go out and find herself, I’m happy, as I make a small margin on the
difference between my friends rate and the rate I charge my client.
Many of my clients come to me because I offer a
complete service. Whatever the
administrative chore they would like taken off their hands, I can assist them. It pays to have a “team” of professionals I
can refer to for those jobs which are on the outer edges of my experience.
Consider assembling a “team“ for yourself and
your clients. I love this quote by Henry
Ford which sums things up nicely…
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." ~Henry Ford
I’ve had a frantic couple of weeks. My workload has been pretty hefty. There were quite a few late nights. I have courses launching in Melbourne Sydney
and Brisbane and I’ve been juggling all
of this with family issues, client
deadlines and my own health issues as well.