Assigning tasks, anyone can have an assistant last spring, early in the morning, I got a call from my tenant. I have an urgent problem. I barely managed to open the garage today. There's a problem with the lock, I think needs to be changed. And this is how my day begun the first emergency. The first email I received that day was please rewrite the article with diacritics for the magazine we needed by this evening.
Why didn't they tell me that from the start? On my way to work I get a call from Joanna Bogdan, can you make a presentation this evening? We really need you. The topic is fulfilling life goals. This is how my day began. In any other year, I would have reprioritized my tasks and would have postponed my projects in order to finish these important and urgent tasks, but not this year.
For some time now, I was thinking of getting a virtual assistant. So I hired the girl who was A student had a lot of free time and needed some extra cash at around 1005 I sent her an email message. Andrea, please do the following tasks until 6pm. One, I attached an article three to write it with diacritics to I need the following information and pictures for a presentation. The most common dreams and wishes for of little children, for example, to become an astronaut or a firefighter, and some interesting and beautiful pictures for each case, or link to a statistic or an article about the failure rate of people fulfilling their new year's resolutions. Examples of people that were successful using notebooks where they wrote their dreams and goals exclude motivational speakers, businessman and their list of fulfilled dreams.
Three, search for a locksmith in dementia. Get me a new lock and set it up by tomorrow morning. When you do ask him to come this evening. They're 8pm or tomorrow morning before 10am and give you my phone number. I'll be expecting three emails from you. The attached document written with diacritics.
The statistic and the pictures for the presentation, the phone, the phone number of the locksmith and the exact hour he's scheduled to call, please reply to confirm that you have the time needed to complete these tasks by 6pm. This is only one example of an email that I sent once or twice a week to my virtual assistant. I assign a lot of tasks to her tasks that would have otherwise thrown my day schedule of balance. But in order to do this, I had to get rid of some limiting beliefs. One of virtual assistant is expensive. On others.com, you can find virtual assistants to work for you for as little as $2 per hour less than a fast food worker.
Think about it. You pay $10 for a cab ride to get to a meeting in 15 minutes. You pay In a system to $3 to work a whole hour for you without you being present. A lot of students have free time and don't know what to do with it, they would have wasted it anyway, so it's great if they can get the money. If you write them a good recommendation to add to their CV, give them a good rating after the work is done and allowed them to have a flexible schedule, then you found the perfect employee to a virtual assistant will do a bad job. It's true that not all those who find will be suited for the job, you'd have to compromise between quality and price.
But considering that the quicker system can help you in most tricky situations, he or she deserves every penny. Be careful though. The first one to apply is not necessarily the best one. You can interview potential candidates to make sure of the quality and prominence of their work. Three, I don't think I want to or can be a boss. Have you ever tried to think of this experience as have something creative and unique that you do at one point in time, and just to play with the idea of it.
Think of it as helping someone or even setting straight a young person with too much free time. Right? Hire an assistant for five hours of work, maybe for $10 less than you would pay to go to the movies and give him something to work on. Give him a task. Now, another one a week later and notice the results. In most cases, you'll end up sticking with that person.