Comments on: Are you too picky for your own good? http://www.onlinebusinessmanager.com/blog/archives/451 Increase Your Capacity for Success & Profit, Your Way Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:11:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Question of the Week: Do YOU need to be the one to do everything on your to-do list? - Online Business Manager http://www.onlinebusinessmanager.com/blog/archives/451/comment-page-1#comment-263 Question of the Week: Do YOU need to be the one to do everything on your to-do list? - Online Business Manager Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:03:30 +0000 http://www.onlinebusinessmanager.com/blog/?p=451#comment-263 [...] here. Try not to censor from the perspective of “but I do it best” (remember the being too picky post?) or “I don’t have time to show someone else how to do it right now (it will take as [...] [...] here. Try not to censor from the perspective of “but I do it best” (remember the being too picky post?) or “I don’t have time to show someone else how to do it right now (it will take as [...]

]]> By: Amber Miller http://www.onlinebusinessmanager.com/blog/archives/451/comment-page-1#comment-253 Amber Miller Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:48:33 +0000 http://www.onlinebusinessmanager.com/blog/?p=451#comment-253 Hi Tina, Great post - and a good reminder for not only those clients working with VAs but for us OBMs as well who manage teams :) Hi Tina,
Great post – and a good reminder for not only those clients working with VAs but for us OBMs as well who manage teams :)

]]> By: Terri Zwierzynski http://www.onlinebusinessmanager.com/blog/archives/451/comment-page-1#comment-252 Terri Zwierzynski Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:45:54 +0000 http://www.onlinebusinessmanager.com/blog/?p=451#comment-252 Another way of thinking about the "imperfect cleaning service" is that it may not get done as well as I'd like, but it's sure easier to spot clean a few areas than it is to do it all myself! (Not that I necessarily advise doing that with a VA that you want to be a long-term partner, unless you set up the expectation that she provides a draft, which you will edit...) I find this advice helpful too as a parent of a (gasp!) teenager. They might not do it the way I would, but if I make it clear up-front what I want the end-result to be, and they meet that...I gotta let it go. Sigh. Maybe the moral of the story is...don't treat your VA like a kid! Another way of thinking about the “imperfect cleaning service” is that it may not get done as well as I’d like, but it’s sure easier to spot clean a few areas than it is to do it all myself! (Not that I necessarily advise doing that with a VA that you want to be a long-term partner, unless you set up the expectation that she provides a draft, which you will edit…)

I find this advice helpful too as a parent of a (gasp!) teenager. They might not do it the way I would, but if I make it clear up-front what I want the end-result to be, and they meet that…I gotta let it go. Sigh.

Maybe the moral of the story is…don’t treat your VA like a kid!

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