What were your Main Achievements for 2008?

It is good to think back to what we have achieved over the past year.  This helps us to get to know ourselves better, to work out what is really important in our lives and to set goals for the coming year.

Busyness in Business

I don’t know whether anyone else is finding the same this week?  I have been absolutely flat out – and loving it!  I have plenty of work and more seems to keep on coming my way!  It is like that in both business and in life.  One week everything happens in full force and then the next week is so quiet it leaves us twiddling our thumbs and wondering [...]

Finding More Time For Christmas

Do you hear this phrase as much as I do? 
“It’s almost Christmas already, where did that year go?!” 
It’s Spring time in Australia at the moment as well which is the traditional time of year for a Spring Clean.  So this got me thinking…

How can I get through the hustle and bustle of Christmas and put the real important stuff [...]

Time for a Spring Clean?

I had a bit of a spring clean over the weekend, even moved the furniture around.  Not a small feat.  It is a wonderful feeling and achievement to now be more organised and functioning at full throttle again with a fresh feel to my office.  Is your office in need of a spring clean?

Sticking to Priorities

Keeping busy?  I am – and I’m absolutely loving it!  The key I think is not only working out our priorities but also sticking to them.  If you don’t have any priorities then there’s a huge problem.  If you have your priorities set out but you’re not sticking to them then the problem is just as big as if [...]

Why Document Procedures?

I would like to share with you today a really good article at Flying Solo, Why You Should Document Procedures.
This article talks about how Documenting Procedures will not only provide you with an instruction manual that someone in your absence might use, but it also provides a massive time saver in that you are not tearing your hair [...]

Getting Organised!

A cool article on How to Get Organised:
http://www.ehow.com/how_134116_organised.html
Remember - getting organised helps us to find time for those more important things in our lives!
Check out eHow for ‘How To Do Just About Everything’

Getting Organised – or Getting Your ‘Stuff’ Together as I call it!

Have you ever had a problem with finding the time to get organised?  Or maybe you are unsure where to start when it comes to tidying your office.  A Virtual Assistant can act as your ‘Think Tank’ in getting the administrative side of your business humming along smoothly, in streamlining your office processes!
Maybe you sit there for hours and hours and hours to get [...]

Data Analysis – Maximise Your Profit Margin!

Do you have some data that needs analysing in order to maximise your profit margin?  Or maybe you would like to achieve a higher level of organisation within your business?  An Excel spreadsheet is a great way to do this!  It allows you to pull together all your information in one place and even more importantly in an organised fashion! 
Maybe you are thinking ‘Mmm, [...]

the Getting Organised shopping list:

1. Hire a Virtual Assistant!
2. Virtual Assistant (VA) to keep the business blog up to date
3. VA to take care of emails
4. VA to type up that recording from my MP3 player
5. VA to put all my contacts into an access database
6. VA to research the web for ….
7. VA to look after the business books
8. VA to type up advertising letter and send it out [...]