My business became fairly successful, fairly quickly. I absolutely love what I do. I love, love, love supporting busy professionals, and that has led to my becoming a busy professional!

Everyone knows we are only given 24 hours per day - all of us. No matter how wealthy we are, we can’t really buy more time. However, the smartest among us know that we can free up more time by outsourcing some of our tasks.

My client work must come before anything else I do, and I don’t believe that to be unique to my business. As a result of my priorities, I’ve been falling behind on the administration of Mann Made Time. My email was getting way out of control, and managing all aspects of my projects had become overwhelming, and takes a ton of (unbillable) time.

I decided that it was time to do something about this! I’ve been working with Victoria Santiago for almost 8 months now, contracting her services for several different things.

I’ve mentioned before on my blog that I’ve had her start managing my email. It’s a very tough habit to break, staying out of my Outlook, but it’s starting to run very smoothly. As action items come up in my email, Victoria adds them to my ‘Toodledo‘ list, and ensures everything is entered in my collaboration site. She also set up a top secret Gmail account where she forwards my urgent messages (So I don’t get distracted in Outlook). It’s working out great. We’re almost a perfectly well oiled machine.

The bottom line is, for the number of hours I’ve retained her for, it’s an absolute priceless investment. I’ve got more focus for my important client projects, I have a system in place for delegating work to my other associates, and I’ve freed up time.

If you’re a busy professional and feel like you can’t breathe with the amount of stuff you have on your plate, get in touch with me. My team can help you. I know how tough it is to let go of that control, I’ve done it myself.

And I am not looking back.

And I’m not looking in Outlook, Victoria. Promise

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