Episode 135: 3 Ps You Need to Know For Your Virtual Assistant Business

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Welcome, welcome back to the Ditch the Classroom podcast. Do you like my little song? All right, you guys, I am so excited for this episode. It’s gonna be so potent, so many things that you can implement. But before we dive in, I want to remind you we have our flash sale coming up in just under a week. This episode’s coming out on Tuesday. So next Monday, November 21st, our flash sale will be starting, It’ll be running through Friday, November 25th. You’re gonna be able to save 20% off of the Teacher Turned Freelancer Academy. TTFA is everything you need to build your virtual assistant business so you can replace your teaching income and start working from home with your babies. It’s going to allow you to do it faster. It’s gonna help you save money because you’re not gonna be making mistakes, and it’s gonna save you time if you’re ready, which, if you’re listening to this podcast, I’m pretty sure you are. Come check out the Teacher Turned Freelancer Academy, see everything that’s included. Get ready, because that flash sale starts and just under one week.

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All right, today’s episode, we’re gonna be talking about the three Ps you need to know for your new virtual assistant business. Go ahead, grab your notebook and pen because this episode is gonna be juicy. So the first P, P number one is Pray. If it weren’t for turning to prayer, I would not have learned about the virtual assistant world. You guys know I’ve shared my story before, so if you’ve missed it, you can find that episode a while back, I was praying for a solution that would allow me to still provide an income for my family so that we could take our dream vacations, pay off debt, just live the life we wanted to live. But I was tired of teaching and I was pregnant and wanted to be the mom that I knew I could be if I just had the time to do so. And so I prayed to God for a solution, and the day I went to labor, he showed me this virtual assistant world. So turning to prayer is what has brought me down this whole rabbit hole, and it’s been amazing. And if it weren’t for prayer, I also wouldn’t have been able to help all the women who also wanted to work from home with their babies.

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If it weren’t for prayer, I would probably still be teaching feeling stuck and unfulfilled. You guys, prayer is the way that we draw closer to God, and it’s through prayer that he can speak to us and show us exactly where he’s calling us to go. So maybe you’re wondering, “Okay, Arianna, I’m not really sure how to pray effectively,” or maybe you’re thinking, “so do I just have to sit there and pray for hours and hours and every dream I have will come true?” No, probably not. But don’t worry, friend, I’m gonna walk you through a few easy steps to start incorporating prayer into your virtual assistant business. So first one is to start a prayer journal. You can buy a really cute little journal off Amazon and then just start praying. And this doesn’t have to take a lot of time. It seriously takes me like five minutes. You can write, you know, a gratitude list in your prayer journal. You can just take five minutes to write whatever’s on your heart. It doesn’t have to be perfect. God knows what is going on in your life already. He just wants you to turn to him and ask for help. So a prayer journal is a great way to do this because then you can really easily go back and see what you prayed before, and whether God has answered it yet or whether you’re still in the waiting phase. Sometimes if we just like pray out loud or in our head, we’ll forget what we prayed about and then won’t really see that God made it happen. So having a prayer journal is a really cool way to kind of see when your prayers have been answered by God. The second way to incorporate prayer into your virtual assistant business is to ask questions of God and to ask him for signs. So if you’re trying to decide between, you know, two different choices or whatever it is, ask God to show you a sign to make sure you’re going the way that he wants you to go. This is one of my favorite things to do – I think I’ve shared this with y’all before, but you know, when I was thinking about writing my book that I’ve been working on, I didn’t know if I should, you know, go. There were two different publishing routes I was trying to decide between. And so I was like, God, show me Caterpillar. If you want me to go one route, show me a lady bug if you want me to go another. And you guys, those creatures, those bugs do not exist like around here. I mean, they do, but like I never see them. So I was like, “Okay, like I’ll really have to, you know, it’ll really jump out at me if I see one of these.” And so literally like two days later, I was walking into our camper. Y’all know we live fulltime in our RV. I was walking into the door and right next to the door handle was a caterpillar. I’ve never in my life, seen a caterpillar in our little camping spot, and I saw a caterpillar that day. So I’m like, “Okay, point taken in God. That is the route I will go.” So ask for signs. This is a great way to kind of show that you’re in the right direction and make sure to remember, like you might not always see that exact thing, like keep an eye out for, you know, you might see whatever you ask for as like your background on your computer. If it like automatically generates images like mine does, your kid might come home with a piece of paper that has that drawn on it or something.

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So just keep an eye out. It might not be the actual thing, but like some form of it. All right? And then the third way to incorporate prayer in your life is to practice gratitude. Just take five minutes a day, two minutes even. It doesn’t take that long. And just thank God for all of the amazing things in your life. You guys, he just wants to know that you’re paying attention and that you appreciate all that he’s doing for you. And yeah, so just take a minute to say thank you.

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All right. The second P that you need to know for your new virtual assistant business is that you need to prioritize. You’ve gotta prioritize money-making tasks first in your business. You don’t wanna spend 10 million years, you know, making your social media super cute and curated. That’s not gonna make you money. Like, yeah, kind of. It might help you connect with some new clients, but you know it will help more. Go into a Facebook group, see somebody who’s posted a job opportunity apply, that’s more likely to make you money than a Instagram post. So focus on the money making tasks in your business first, and then if you have time later, then you can devote that to things that aren’t necessarily income generators. All right.

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The third P that you need to know for your new virtual assistant business is to plan. You need to set aside time each week to make a game plan on what you’re going to tackle. I have a whole entire podcast episode called the Five Time Blocking Tips for the Busy Teacher Turned Work at Home Mom. That’s episode 65 here on the Ditch the Classroom podcast. So you can find that wherever you listen, or you can also go to ditchtheclassroom.com/vault. That’s v-a-u-l-t. And I have all the podcast episodes organized by topic there. So you can easily find episode 65 there. It’s got the links so you can easily click on it and go listen.

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All right, let me recap these three P’s for you. The three P’s you need to know when you’re starting your virtual assistant business. Number one is to pray. Number two is prioritize. And number three is to plan. If this podcast is helping you, it would make my heart so, so happy if you take a second to go and leave us a review on the show, wherever you’re listening, but specifically Apple Podcasts, that just really helps us grow and reach new mama’s and teachers who need to hear this message as well. So all you have to do is go to Apple Podcasts, Search Ditch the Classroom, click on it, scroll down, click the five stars, write like one or two sentences about how this podcast has helped you, and before you hit submit, take a screenshot and then email that screenshot to me at podcast@digitalclassroom.com. Once I get your email, I will send you a code that will allow you to get my Ditch the Classroom toolkit for free. The Ditch the Classroom toolkit has the first foundational steps you need when you’re starting a virtual assistant business, and I wanna give that to you for free as the thank you for helping me grow this show. So send that email with your screenshot of your review before you hit submit, because if you hit submit first, sometimes your review doesn’t show up for a few days. So take that screenshot first and then hit submit, and then email me the screenshot and I will give you that free gift. All right, y’all, I’d love you so much. I’m so excited for our flash sale coming up. So don’t forget about that, and we will see you next time.