There are very few people in the world who would say they’ve got their work-life balance exactly right and when you’re a small business owner, you ‘re probably even less likely to. In fact, most of the time it probably seems like your work IS your life.
That’s OK at first when you enjoy what you do, but after a while it becomes draining. No matter how much you love your work, you need a break from it sometimes. There are two main areas in which a Virtual Assistant can help you to improve your work-life balance…
Firstly, they can help by taking some of your workload. Depending on the Virtual Assistant/s you work with they can take responsibility for areas such as:
- Email monitoring
- Phone answering
- Diary Management
- Social Media
- Accounts payable & receivable
- Typing, spreadsheet and document management
- Customer relations
- Newsletters and mail outs
- Blogging
- Almost anything else an on-site Admin team could do for you
Secondly, they can help you to identify the areas that you might best offload to others.
- It might be an area that you enjoy working in but isn’t the best use of your time.
- It might be an important function that you have to force yourself to do every week, but you don’t feel you can afford to outsource.
- It might be something you’re not doing that would make your processes flow better if it were done
- It might be finding a new way of doing things that streamlines how you work
- As someone who knows your business but doesn’t have such a personal relationship with it, a Virtual Assistant can help you identify problem areas and offer a less biased opinion.
A good work-life balance is hugely important, not just for job satisfaction, but to avoid burnout and health problems as well. A Virtual Assistant can help you find the sweet spot between too much and too little work.
