The Key to Successfully Starting Your VA Career
If you’re reading this, you may be trying to start your Virtual Assistant career and can’t seem to get exactly what you need to really dive in and get started.
We have a lot of conversations with women who are quite literally on the brink of starting their Virtual Assistant business and then just…don’t. Sometimes for no real reason, they just can’t get the picture clear in their head so they don’t do it.
And maybe that’s for the best for some people. Maybe they wouldn’t like it or maybe they wouldn’t be very good at being an assistant…
But here is the scariest part of when that happens:
They could be meant for this role and could even grow quickly because of that…
Enough to quit their day job
Enough to build a 6-figure VA business
Enough to find fulfillment in their career
But they just…don’t. Because they couldn’t quite wrap their head around getting started.
So I’m going to share a secret with you on the key to starting your Virtual Assistant business.
There are really many keys (there always are with these things) but I’ll give you an overarching theme that will carry you through your entire VA career.
Don’t Wait to Get Started, Just Do It…
I know this sounds corny and you’ve heard it all before but I’m telling you…hearing it and doing it are two different things so if you are rolling your eyes right now because you’re thinking “this is nothing new,” then my guess is you’ve never taken the advice because if you had, you would know that this is absolutely what will get you where you want to be.
Let me explain it further to you.
You will always not know something. You will always not know or fully see your next step but still, you have to take it.
Most women don’t get their Virtual Assistant career off the ground because they don’t know exactly what their workday will look like…
And you never will until you get started and have your first workday as a VA
You don’t know how you are going to invoice…
And why would you! You’ve never charged for something like this before, just start with something and you can change it later when you learn more about what you need to be doing.
You don’t know what you are going to call their VA business…
Most don’t! And most don’t have a “name” so they just use their own. Don’t let this get you stuck.
You don’t know how to do some of the tasks or aren’t familiar with online tools…
That’s okay! As a VA, you sometimes get new tasks every day! They aren’t hard. You aren’t learning rocket science every day, you are just learning how to google different things.
You just don’t know if they will like it.
And you never will until you try it. Don’t like it? Quit.
There are so many other reasons but the point is, you can’t stay stuck in the “I don’t know’s” and “what ifs” because you will never move forward. If you surrender yourself to those thoughts, you might as well stop thinking about doing something new.
And this will follow you through everything. Don’t be paralyzed by the unknown.
Here is a Key to Navigating the Unknown
Remain consistent.
It’s probably the hardest part after the getting over your fears bit.
In the beginning, especially, commit to consistency. Something doesn’t work the first time? Try again. The second time? Try again? The third, fourth or fifth time? Tweak and then try again.
Keep going until you find what works. You will always find it, but only if you don’t quit looking.
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