time management for vas

Podcast: Balancing Work and Life Better as a Virtual Assistant

Today’s Quote: There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences. Jack Welch, businessman, CEO of GE Welcome to another episode of the podcast that teaches you how to be a ridiculously good virtual assistant. Today we are talking about work life balance, and what you need to do to be a great business woman AND a great family member. It’s a situation that happens from time to time – but by handling it correctly you can minimize the effects of it as a VA. Click the play button above to tune in, or choose your favourite podcast player below:   Connect with Tracey D’Aviero, VA Coach and Trainer  … Read More »Podcast: Balancing Work and Life Better as a Virtual Assistant

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5 Routines You Can Implement Now To Become a More Efficient Virtual Assistant

If you are not working with regular routines in your VA business, and instead handling everything ‘as it comes up’, you are probably wasting time and risking burnout. Routines are an excellent way to bring regularity into your VA business. All business owners have lots of balls in the air, and it’s important to manage them well regularly, so none of them drop. One of the best ways you can manage your ever-changing workload is to implement regular routines that can help you to keep on top of what needs doing, prioritize it accordingly, and get it done. Routines improve your productivity and efficiency – and they don’t have to be boring. First, here are some ‘don’t do this’ tips… Read More »5 Routines You Can Implement Now To Become a More Efficient Virtual Assistant

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Set Healthy VA Boundaries to Avoid Stress and Burnout

Have you ever felt that your clients are interrupting you, or seem too demanding? Many VAs I know have trouble with clients having expectations that they can’t meet. They struggle to make deadlines. They work morning, noon and night to get client work done. They are tired. And not very happy. Sometimes it starts because you allow clients to break your boundaries. Sometimes you don’t have boundaries to begin with. Either way, the key to happy clients and being a happy VA is setting healthy boundaries. Just because we are support professionals, does not mean that we have to do everything the client asks for – when they ask for it. What we need to do is provide the best… Read More »Set Healthy VA Boundaries to Avoid Stress and Burnout

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Managing Your Work Pace to Efficiently Support VA Clients

Are you wasting your client’s money? If you are wasting time while working on their Virtual Assistant tasks, you might be charging them unnecessarily. The pace you work at is a very important part of your VA business. Why? Because our clients pay us for the time we spend on their tasks. Wasting time means wasting your client’s money. In a corporate setting, we don’t really often work against a clock. Yes, we work on deadlines (ours and other people’s) but not to the extent that we need to do so as a VA. When we start our VA business, this can be a difficult transition – all of a sudden we have to be responsible to justify every minute… Read More »Managing Your Work Pace to Efficiently Support VA Clients

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How to Write a Great Blog Post in One Hour

How long does it take you to write a blog post? If it’s taking you more than an hour, I’m glad you are here. Many Virtual Assistants have a hard time writing efficiently, and this often causes them to waste more time than necessary when it comes to blogging. When it takes you too long to do something, that task often gets pushed aside in favour of other things. Blogging usually takes a back seat to everything else in a VA business, often because you just don’t feel that you have time to get it done. What if I told you that you can write great blog posts consistently in just one hour a week? The key to marketing is… Read More »How to Write a Great Blog Post in One Hour

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Managing Distractions While Working From Home as a VA

If your productivity is starting to suffer as a Virtual Assistant, you may want to have a look at what is distracting your focus. Right now we are in the throes of Coronavirus, and many Virtual Assistants I know suddenly have a house full of people that aren’t usually present during our work days. Is that you? If so, I’ve got some suggestions for you that might help. Managing distractions is a big issue when you are in situations that you aren’t used to, but you may also need these tips if you struggle with distractions even when no one else is around! Here are 10 things to look at if distractions are affecting your productivity: 1. Dedicated Office Space… Read More »Managing Distractions While Working From Home as a VA

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Time Management Tips for Virtual Assistants

If you’re anything like me, you have at some point come to the end of a day and still had a million things on your task list. What do you do when you run out of time but still have a million things to do? I get all kinds of answers to this question when I ask it – sometimes you push through and keep working till it’s done. Sometimes you break for dinner and then work into the night to get it done. Sometimes you get up early the next morning and get it done. And then you do it all over again the next day. But if this happens to you on a regular basis, then it’s not… Read More »Time Management Tips for Virtual Assistants

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Are you doing too much?

When it comes to running your business, are you doing too much? Too much networking. Too much marketing. Too much project management. Too much time tracking. Too much research. Your time comes into play in every aspect of your business. The fact is that we all have the same amount of time (168 hours a week!), but it’s how we use that time that makes or breaks our efforts, no matter what we are doing. One of the mistakes I see Virtual Assistants make all the time is cramming a lot of stuff into a short period of time. For instance, when we talk about networking, they will say they spend hours a day connecting with people. When we talk… Read More »Are you doing too much?

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