Destressing Habit # 2

Outsource.......

Blast the alarm clock! You grope around sleepily to douse out its irritating jangle! But you fumble out of bed anyway and hastily throw on your shoes for jogging.The sun's barely up but your busy mind ticks off tasks that you know need to be done by midday. A zillion tasks pop-up while you mentally struggle to chock-up a halfway decent schedule that leaves you some time for lunch! Your mind teteering on despair, you wish you could complete your tasks in half the time. Sheesh! You desperately need to balance your life better!



Yes, you know that's possible, and no, you don't need to compromise on quality. The last temp you trained left you feeling so weary that you vowed you'd never hire anyone again. Well, don't! But you can still get your work done in half the time. Maybe I sound too smug, but I'll tell you my secret, not that its one anymore, because many professionals and entrepreneurs are doing it with great satisfaction. They are outsourcing their routine as well as specialised tasks.



What exactly is outsourcing? Well, outsourcing means hiring a virtual assistant (VA)who could be an individual or a firm located in any part of the globe, but who has the recumbent skills for fulfilling you work-related needs. The only difference is that a VA invariably connects and works with you on a regular basis through the internet, because he/she might live in another time geographical zone. For example, a travel journalist like Rita desperately needed to redesign and manage her website, but she seemed to be always short of time. After researching the net, she outsourced website design to Gracy, a skilled graphic designer who designed her site in record time, and also took over the task of periodically updating it. Pleased with her success, she began looking for a an accomplished tutor for her twelve year old son. Since she traveled a lot, she needed someone who could satisfactorily take over this very personal task. Being rather finicky about finding a subject- expert as well as a child-friendly tutor all rolled into one, she again approached the VA firm who helped her to find a tutor. Although her VA lived halfway across the world, he not only possessed the expertise, but also agreed to work on a schedule that suited Rita and her son.

Wow! Wouldn't it be great if you did the same? Just think, you could have all the time in the world to concentrate on the tasks that you'd rather do yourself and rest of the time, you can literally destress.....because you know that your VA will pay your bills, manage your accounts, book your tickets, send thank-you notes and everything imaginable at work, except perhaps do your push-ups for you!

You can truly destress now, because you know that many of your important tasks are getting completed while you take that much needed midday snooze.