Many of the daily business tasks that consume your time can be effectively outsourced, enabling you to focus on what is important, rather than on what needs to be done.

• Think about what you would do with an additional 4 hours per week, or 16 hours per month?
• How would you invest that time in your organization?
• What administrative details do you really need to be doing, or not doing?
• Are you caught up in back-end details that should be delegated?

A simple exercise to discover what you can delegate to your virtual assistant is to keep a daily log of your tasks and projects’, noting how much time was spent on each, even being mindful of the interruptions. Each of these facets helps you to see how your time is spent.

Looking back to the log, do you see items that should have taken you 15 – 30 minutes but may have take longer due to unforeseen distractions, or because you had to “figure out” how to complete the task? Keeping track for a few days or a week will help you to see where and how your time is being spent.

• Upon review of your time sheet, think about what you should have delegated.
• Did you spend unnecessary hours performing more admin tasks?
• Were there other more vital business details that were overlooked or passed over because you were doing busy work, or trying to figure out how to complete the task?

How do you want or need to invest your time in your company? Delegating is a proven tool to increase your productivity, time management and effectiveness. Many important administrative tasks can be outsourcing to a professional Virtual Assistant who already has the knowledge or skill to be able to complete your tasks efficiently, without interruption and in a much timelier manner than you may be able to. With your projects being successfully executed and completed, you will gain valuable hours in your day to work ON your business rather than IN it. Why not start today?