| First let me tell you that I have discovered every | | | | being a VA, is that you get to learn more about |
| good idea is met with disdain and some degree of | | | | yourself than you would have otherwise. Critical |
| failure. When I started out my virtual assistant | | | | times meant the need for critical action. I worked |
| business full time, I was met with a host of | | | | harder and more efficiently and more accurately |
| disdain, complaints, and negative energy about | | | | than probably anyone else that might have been |
| how I would never make it. I was told I would | | | | competing with me, because I HAD to succeed. |
| not be able to support my child that way. I got | | | | There were no other choices for me. |
| questions like, "Are you too lazy to have a real | | | | Odds are if you choose to run a VA business full |
| job?" "Do you think you're too good to work like | | | | time or switch to full time after being part time, |
| the rest of us?" and "Your income will never be | | | | you will run across pressure from other people. |
| stable enough!" | | | | These people will say everything and anything to |
| Keep in mind that I am a single parent with NO | | | | dissuade you. It's not that they're purposely trying |
| child support coming in. I am the sole income for | | | | to harm you. They think they're saving you from |
| my family. Now, I could see how that could be | | | | some awful fate, because THEY don't have the |
| frightening to many people. I only did so after | | | | entrepreneurial spirit to take an idea and make a |
| working as a virtual assistant part time for MANY | | | | living off of it. THEY are afraid, and they're |
| years. I felt I had built enough of a reputation and | | | | transferring their fear to you. |
| had enough referrals to not have to invest tons | | | | Your job is to understand and be compassionate |
| of money in advertising and marketing to sustain | | | | about their negativity toward what you're about |
| a minimal income that I needed to get my family | | | | to do, but at the same time not let it chip away |
| by each month. Some months we barely did | | | | at your direction, goal, and positive energy level. |
| scrape by, but we did! | | | | You need as much positive energy as you can to |
| It was this sense of urgency and no alternatives | | | | succeed, because positive energy makes you |
| in fact that drove me to succeed. I am the type | | | | confident. Confidence wins you clients! |
| of person that is motivated by crisis! I learned | | | | So take that pressure and instead of letting it sit |
| that about myself while running my own virtual | | | | on you, you sit on it! |
| assistant business. That's another great benefit of | | | | |