by Agata @ The Proper VA | Apr 17, 2017 | Business, Communication
How Poor Communication Can Expand To All Areas Of Your Life
In business terms, there’s nothing worse than a failure to communicate. Whenever you set up a business you had better make sure that your communication is professional and first-class. Often, this may be the first and last impression that a would be client gets of your organisation if they send an e-mail or make a call and are less than happy with the response. In many cases, they will simply get no response at all and just turn to the next solution. It’s amazing how much time we can spend communicating with others. It’s estimated that the average business person checks and handles e-mail upwards of 10 times per day. (more…)
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…)
