How to decide what to delegate?

I made a list of all those tasks that I don't like or don't want to do and that take up a lot of my time. I then compiled a list of the skills and tools needed to complete the tasks on my list. Remember, there is always someone who likes the kind of tasks you don't.

I reviewed my database of potential virtual assistants and chose the ideal person!

Are you interested in the result? Five months later, I can leave the office without my work stopping completely. When I return to the office, I don't feel like I'm drowning and I don't panic because I don't know where to start. While I'm away, I'm available for anything urgent that requires my attention and involvement, but I delegate everything else to an assistant.

All entrepreneurs need an assistant. If you need someone to meet clients physically in the office, make coffee and receive mail, a virtual assistant is not for you.

A virtual assistant is ideal for you if you have no problem with trusting that the person doing the tasks remotely will do the given job well. Working remotely means that the virtual assistant has his own office, his own equipment, pays his contributions and issues invoices to his clients for the tasks completed.

One of the biggest misconceptions is that you have to hire a virtual assistant for a full hourly rate. That is not correct. With a virtual assistant, you have complete freedom to agree on the scope of work according to your needs.

Maybe you need an assistant for five hours a month? Or for twenty hours a week? All possibilities are open and everything is negotiated individually.

Are you troubled by the lack of control over completed tasks and the time spent per task? Virtual assistants use applications like Clockify to measure time spent per task and per project for a specific client, and it is customary to submit the specified report along with the bill. On the report, you can see which tasks your virtual assistant completed and in what time frame.

You can agree on a certain time of day availability for you and your business, and you can simply send a list of tasks that need to be done and the deadline by which everything needs to be completed. Virtual assistance offers a great deal of freedom to both assistants and entrepreneurs who use their services.

One of the biggest benefits of hiring a virtual assistant is that you can have several assistants specialized in different tasks. Do you need an assistant who knows how to make invoices, offers, create posts for social networks, send newsletters, organize deliveries, write blogs and edit the web?

The best option is to hire more assistants. One specialized in finance, another in maintenance and management of social networks, and the third in copywriting.

There are virtual assistants that offer a large number of services in different fields, however, if they are not assistants that outsource part of their services to colleagues who are specialized in certain tasks, I would recommend that you do not hire one assistant for everything, but that you choose them by specialization, because you will get a better quality of service.

A virtual assistant can take the burden of a very large number of tasks off your back

It can manage different databases, collect leads, automate business, answer the phone, manage your email inbox and calendar, organize meetings, trips, events, do various research, create marketing campaigns.

The list of tasks that a virtual assistant can do for you is really long.

The only thing a virtual assistant cannot do for you is to finally make a decision and delegate tasks! Shortly after engaging a virtual assistant, you will feel as if someone has taken a huge burden off your back. Time and capacity will be freed up to deal with what is truly important - running your business!

All this will lead to the creation of new ideas, the generation of new products and services, by increasing profits and inner peace. You will build better relationships with your clients and customers.

At the end of each working day, you will feel happy and fulfilled, you will be able to devote yourself to what is truly and most important in the end - your family and friends, without thinking about work and the pile of tasks that await you in ambush.

Those mornings from the beginning of the article can become a thing of the past, and the decision about your future and health rests solely on you!