by Agata @ The Proper VA | Apr 2, 2017 | Business
Four Reasons Why You Might Not Be Happy In Business
How do you actually measure happiness in life? Is it based on material possessions – hopefully not – or is it based on a combination of stability, the spiritual and relationships? We work for a reason, even though it seems to occupy the lion’s share of our life. We are working to provide resources to enable us to enjoy life. This enjoyment may well include helping others, charitable contributions and altruistic endeavours, but we nevertheless operate our businesses for specific reasons. (more…)
by Agata @ The Proper VA | Mar 26, 2017 | Business, Lifestyle, Mindset
How To Determine Your Life Plan
The four-hour workweek. For some workaholics, this sounds like a nightmare. For some pragmatists, it sounds absolutely unrealistic. For some dreamers, it sounds like heaven. Where do you stand? Would you like to trade in your 80-hour workweek for a four-hour workweek, or would you like to make room for compromise, somewhere in between?
Here we’re talking about two things – one is holistic and the other is more practical. Where are you going with your life? Do you have a plan? (more…)
by Agata @ The Proper VA | Mar 18, 2017 | Business, Virtual Assistance
Do You Live For Work? Why It’s Not Sustainable
What time did your alarm clock go off this morning? Do you even like getting up well before dawn? The chances are if you’re an entrepreneur or in charge of a small business of some kind you have an alarm clock that’s set for 5 AM. It seems that you only had a few hours of much-needed rest before that darn clock is rudely awakening you from your slumber, once again. This is a picture that is repeated all over the world as people who are “living the dream” devote all their waking hours to their work. To them, there definitely are not enough hours in the day and they seem to devote less and less time to their family, or to their friends. (more…)
by Agata @ The Proper VA | Mar 12, 2017 | Business, Office
What happens when you finally realise that delegation is not an option?
How much is your time worth? This is a question that every entrepreneur and the online business owner should ask themselves from time to time. There’s only so much time available in any given day and much less than you might imagine if you’re realistic about it. When we work for others we tend to think of eight-hour blocks of time, typically between nine and five for an office environment for example. We may get paid by the hour, but even the most dedicated employees very rarely produce fully creative work during each of those eight-hour shifts. (more…)
by Agata @ The Proper VA | Feb 25, 2017 | Business, Virtual Assistance
How Virtual Assistants Can Help You Interpret “The Signal”
There is scarcely a business task that cannot be outsourced to a virtual assistant. This is particularly true when it comes to marketing and promoting a business. Marketing is, of course, the lifeblood of any organisation and cannot be ignored, even when times are lean. The company that is not focusing on marketing is essentially falling backwards when compared to its peers and opponents. (more…)
by Agata @ The Proper VA | Feb 18, 2017 | Business, Cost of work, Virtual Assistance
When you finally realise that you are wasting your time, what are you going to do?
We are seeing an explosive growth in the number of people who want to take their own future in their hands and set out on their own, to become an entrepreneur. Undoubtedly, this has been fueled in large part by the recent economic downturn and the huge number of layoffs in supposedly “cast-iron” industries. No longer could you rely on a job for life and the slow realisation that nobody’s job was secure anymore prompted many to sit up and take notice. (more…)
