Think You’ve Only Got 5 Hours of Work to Delegate to a Virtual Assistant…Think Again!
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In this episode, Barbara and Matt talk listeners through some honest truths when it comes to deciding just how many hours per week you 'think' you can delegate to a virtual assistant.
This episode takes a look at the essential factors to bear in mind when deciding to onboard a VA and how, if you are truly committed, you could easily find at least 20 hours of work for a virtual assistant to do in your business, every single week!
Some of the areas covered include:
The only way to really know what to delegate is understanding where you’re spending your time
The importance of changing your mindset to “Stop Doing” certain tasks, so you can focus on more of the things you love doing
How putting ‘positive stress’ on yourself can help your business grow faster
Bringing in specialists for ad-hoc tasks can also help reduce your workload, freeing up valuable time for more important, revenue-generating tasks
Let us know what your key takeout has been from this episode and join the continuing conversation over in the Virtual Success Facebook Group.
Resources mentioned in this show:
The Stop Doing List – www.stopdoing.com.au
In this episode:
00:55 – So I ‘think’ I only need 5 hours a week from my VA
03:28 – If you think you’ve only got 5 hours, you’re not committed enough
04:32 – Changing your mindset to ‘stop doing’
06:59 – Are you in business, or have you just created a job for yourself?
09:30 – How to ‘Time Log’
11:35 – Ask yourself – “How can I stop doing?”
14:30 – Positive stress
16:43 – Shifting your focus
17:45 – Pros of committing to a full-time VA
18:47 – Bringing in specialists for ad hoc tasks
22:51 – Wrapping things up
Barbara: Hi, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the Virtual Success Show. I’m joined again, as always, by my co-host, Matt Malouf. Matt, how are you?
Matt: I’m well, Barb. How are you?
Barbara: I’m great, thank you. Great. Enjoying this a little cooler weather we’re having in Sydney now, which is very nice. I love this time of year.
Matt: I know. But its beautiful blue skies today. We’ve had a lot of rain over the last few weeks …
Barbara: I know.
Matt: … and so very interesting.
Barbara: Very enjoyable.
So I ‘think’ I only need 5 hours a week from my VA
Listen, on today’s show, everyone, we thought a really interesting thing that I’ve wanted to delve into on the show for a quite a while, actually, because we get quite a lot of customers coming to Virtual Angel Hub with this exact question. They’ll sort of hit up our Facebook page, or our live chat, asking, “Look, I only need five hours or so a week with a VA. You have a minimum of 20 hours a week. Is there anything you could do for me?”
What I find interesting about this question is that, for me, five hours a week, having worked with a lot of virtual teams and in various different businesses, five hours is actually not very much and, obviously, some smaller businesses will think, “I only need that much time.” My feeling is that well, I know that within a few weeks of joining Virtual Angel Hub, so many people who thought they would never fill 20 hours can’t believe how quickly it got filled up when we actually helped them to sort of see what else they could be doing.
Matt: Yeah, and I think I’m just going to be real direct to our listeners straight upfront, is if you only think you’ve got five hours to delegate, you’re not trying hard enough. You really aren’t. Because I think too often these days, we get caught up in being busy and, so, we think that the busyness is important. Yet, in actual fact, a lot of the tasks that are causing the busyness are either not necessary, or not of high priority and can be done by somebody else. They need to get done, but they can easily be done by somebody else.