The Key to Efficiency

Over the last five years of being part of the working class, I have noticed some key points to being efficient.

1. Time Management
This is one of the biggest factors to being efficient. You can be well organized by keeping a schedule in your business and personal life. Even by having a calendar on the wall and writing your appointments or important phone calls is a good way of keeping organized.

2. Setting Priorities
Knowing what’s most important on your to-do list is an easy way of getting all of the tasks you need done completed in a timely manner. This might even allow you to do all the other smaller tasks on your list that you were putting off. Setting and keeping priorities, whether it be by client or task, is going to improve your relationships with your clients and then your clients will know what to expect when it comes to the completion of their work.

3. Learning to Breathe!
This might sound funny but it will save you from “blowing up” at one of your clients! Learning to breathe and not get frustrated with the business decisions you need to make is key to being efficient. Sometimes it’s best just to walk away from your desk and take a walk when you’re feeling frustrated. Frustration is not going to help you or your business.

4. Keeping a To-Do List
This goes along with being aware of your time and keeping your priorities. Keeping a to-do list is one of the best things I could have done to improve my business. I have a Hilroy notebook all the time and as I get new tasks, I write them down. As I think of new ways to improve my business, I write those down as well. It’s so easy and cheap to do and it will save you so much time. You won’t have to try to think back at everything you’ve done, all you have to do is simply look in your book and there it is.

As many of you know, there are tons of ways of being efficient in your business and personal life. Finding the right way for you makes all the difference in the world. It took me three years to find the best way! Being aware of these small things will help to improve your business and keep you on track to being efficient.

Looking forward to sharing many successes with you!

Trina Lamarche
Efficient VA

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Trina Lamarche (Efficient VA) started her virtual career three years ago by helping launch and setup Business Services, ETC, a virtual assistance firm. After two years working for other people, she realized what she really wanted to do; become an owner of her very own virtual assistance business. In the past year, she has been working part-time as a ‘Virtual Assistant’s Assistant’ (a term she coined while working on client work one evening.) Always the overachiever, she decided to open a second virtual assistance company, Efficient Virtual Assistant (EVA), working directly with clients. Contact her at info@efficientva.com.

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