Put Your Feet Up - Take the Rest of the Day Off?
What I hear you cry? Do you even KNOW how much work I have to do? Do you feel there aren't enough hours in the day? Feel like tearing your hair out when the family wants to get together and you know full well that you need to catch up with your social media, blog posts, invoicing, admin...
and so the list goes on and on and on!!! How often can you be heard murmuring the words under your breath - when will it ever end.
Do you go to bed exhausted only to wake up exhausted and still have to run your business and do the other myriad of things that are expected of you in the merry-go-round of life? What if you could do all those things and more? What if you could have the life you dreamed of when you made the huge decision to work for yourself and run your own business.
What if on a Friday night at 5pm, you could pack up for the weekend and have a much-needed break over the weekend - do what you want to do, chill out with family and friends, have some quality me-time or take a quick weekend break? Sound like a pipedream? Well it doesn't have to.
What one thing could you do that would make your life easier all round? Delegate! Oh yeah, right - and who do I delegate to in this one-man band I call my business? Who else can do all the things I need doing and do them right and on time and...
Excuses, excuses, excuses.
I'm sorry, but they are! You are in overload and overwhelmed because you've allowed yourself to get that way.
And please don't think for a minute that I haven't been there, because I have - I too have been overwhelmed and exhausted and then I made a BIG decision.
I decided to delegate work that I could easily do but that took time and took me away from my business.
I decided to hire a virtual assistant.
I can hear the cries of protest already - I don't earn enough to keep me going let alone staff.
I hear you but being time conscious also brings its own financial rewards.
Think about it.
How much can you earn at your business per hour? £15, £20, £40, £100? Wouldn't your time be better spent in working toward making each hour you work that productive? Put another way, if you were given the choice of two pay packets each hour and one contained £40 for your business time and one contained £5 for your administrative time, which one would you choose? I know which one I'd go for.
Well, yes, you say, I hear what you're saying but even so, I don't have the time to source a virtual assistant, where would I get one, what should I look for.
It's easier to just keep doing it myself.
There are loads of resources on the internet and plenty of sites where you can source virtual staff from, it takes some time, agreed but at the end of the day, it is time well spent - a productive use of your time working toward freeing up a major portion of your day so that you could hand all that other stuff over to your administrative assistant.
What's the alternative? Being an overwhelmed entrepreneur who's not focusing solely upon growing his business.
Someone who is constantly tired and harassed, not functioning at his or her optimum level, spending precious expensive time doing jobs that could easily be outsourced.
Or you could hire someone to take over all that pesky paperwork, get down to earning what you should be and living the life you want.
Seems a small price to pay in my book.
and so the list goes on and on and on!!! How often can you be heard murmuring the words under your breath - when will it ever end.
Do you go to bed exhausted only to wake up exhausted and still have to run your business and do the other myriad of things that are expected of you in the merry-go-round of life? What if you could do all those things and more? What if you could have the life you dreamed of when you made the huge decision to work for yourself and run your own business.
What if on a Friday night at 5pm, you could pack up for the weekend and have a much-needed break over the weekend - do what you want to do, chill out with family and friends, have some quality me-time or take a quick weekend break? Sound like a pipedream? Well it doesn't have to.
What one thing could you do that would make your life easier all round? Delegate! Oh yeah, right - and who do I delegate to in this one-man band I call my business? Who else can do all the things I need doing and do them right and on time and...
Excuses, excuses, excuses.
I'm sorry, but they are! You are in overload and overwhelmed because you've allowed yourself to get that way.
And please don't think for a minute that I haven't been there, because I have - I too have been overwhelmed and exhausted and then I made a BIG decision.
I decided to delegate work that I could easily do but that took time and took me away from my business.
I decided to hire a virtual assistant.
I can hear the cries of protest already - I don't earn enough to keep me going let alone staff.
I hear you but being time conscious also brings its own financial rewards.
Think about it.
How much can you earn at your business per hour? £15, £20, £40, £100? Wouldn't your time be better spent in working toward making each hour you work that productive? Put another way, if you were given the choice of two pay packets each hour and one contained £40 for your business time and one contained £5 for your administrative time, which one would you choose? I know which one I'd go for.
Well, yes, you say, I hear what you're saying but even so, I don't have the time to source a virtual assistant, where would I get one, what should I look for.
It's easier to just keep doing it myself.
There are loads of resources on the internet and plenty of sites where you can source virtual staff from, it takes some time, agreed but at the end of the day, it is time well spent - a productive use of your time working toward freeing up a major portion of your day so that you could hand all that other stuff over to your administrative assistant.
What's the alternative? Being an overwhelmed entrepreneur who's not focusing solely upon growing his business.
Someone who is constantly tired and harassed, not functioning at his or her optimum level, spending precious expensive time doing jobs that could easily be outsourced.
Or you could hire someone to take over all that pesky paperwork, get down to earning what you should be and living the life you want.
Seems a small price to pay in my book.
