Critical Points On How Enjoying A Bath With Yaro Starak Increased My Productivity

As I have been able to build up a nice and steady income with my virtual assistant business and my online business consultancy, I wanted to branch out in a new direction. I want to really start giving something back to my industry, Virtual Assistance.

The concern that I had is that I barely have enough time in the day already, running the company full time, managing the staff, and of course being a mum to my 1 and 2 year old... I had found some sort of a balance in my life, but doing the additional business development would of course tip the balance I had created.

After giving it some thought I decided the course of action I was going to take, I joined Yaro Starak’s Membership Mastermind Course and Blog Mastermind Course. For some time I have been following Yaro, as I have been attracted to his thirst for life, his practical approach to business and his ability to make money online, confidently.

I joined having serious doubts that I could make the time for all the extra work, but I have always been up for a challenge. I needn't have worried though, because human beings do have an amazing ability to adapt, don't they? I certainly did.

So here are 5 Creative Ways in which I integrated the additional work for this new venture into my day:

1. Be a good listener.

Turn the music or the radio off and start listening to learning material while you work. This is good for when you are doing the more mundane “auto-pilot” tasks during the day.

This is funny, but when I take a bath in the evening, I take my iShuffle with me and clip it to my hair so I don't mess it up, laying back, relaxing and listening to Yaro’s material, advice and interviews. Funnily enough I absorb information much better this way.

2. Do 10 minutes of exercise every morning.

Believe me, I am not really an exercise nut and I would far prefer to be laying out in the sun drinking a cocktail, but when I discovered how effective 10 minutes of Yoga (accompanied by a CD) can be, I became a lot more productive. It gave me a positive start to the day and helped me concentrate more, and I am losing weight which is a bonus.

3. Always travel with a notepad.

I take a notepad with me wherever I go - or use my iPhone so I am able to quickly record ideas and notes as they pop into my head.

4. Do a research shopping list.

In order to learn more about how I was going to put all my work together I made a research shopping list, this is basically a list of things I needed researching into -- to get links, downloads, blogs, websites, audios, videos - basically everything I could think of to kick-start my new venture. I gave this to one of my Virtual Assistants to go and get the items I needed on my shopping list. This saved me a lot of time, and I was able to simply work from only what I actually wanted and needed, and not have to sift through all the not useful/time wasting content I didn't want.

5. Subscribe to feeds.

I certainly needed to keep in touch with what was happening in the world and there were an unbelievable number of forums, blogs, websites and so many other areas that I needed to monitor daily, there was just no way that I could do this by going through all these sites looking for new activity. This is where RSS feeds are great, as when you find a place where there is interesting content, you simply subscribe and pick up this valuable material. I am all about quality, not quantity, but you need to sieve the quantity out to find the quality. I set a time each day to quickly scan through all my feeds, picking out the ones with catchy headlines and pertinent information. Everything else is ditched. Information overload is a terrible thing - people can easily get sucked in by it and before you realise it, hours have passed by, so by doing this, I can save myself time and get the really valuable information I need, a bit like a magpie picking out the shiny things from the rubbish. This is just one of the methods which helped me to take a solo virtual assistant business, to the elite standing of a global virtual assistant business enterprise.

So there you have it! That’s how I took Yaro Starak (and lots of other people) in the bath with me, and how you can too.