Mindful approach to life and business
Recently, I attended the book launch tour of Jess Stuart’s new book Burnout to Brilliance which caused a few alarm bells to ring. Here’s why… I’ve been struggling. Not an easy thing to admit but I have. Over the past five months, I’ve been annihilated by Covid, and it took forever to feel even slightly better, only to be hit by the season’s flu and it wiped me out (like a beginner surfer, I found myself floundering for air) as it activated numerous secondary infections etc. I...
August 19, 2022Modelling business behaviour as a working mum
The struggle is real being a working mum and entrepreneur. I met my now-husband a few months before I turned forty (nearly six years ago) and within six months, I had become a second mum (our term for step-mum) to his (our) three children. Within a year, I quit my full-time job (now that was challenging working 40 hours, running a household, managing children and maintaining a healthy relationship with the love of my life) and began running my yoga, coaching and contracting business. This opport...
July 26, 2022Life Admin - Men's Perspective
Life Admin has been termed “the office work of life.” The type of work that personal assistants or office managers the world over, have been doing for the managers for decades! Not everyone can afford a personal assistant to manage their lives for them. However, to be able to function at optimal levels in business/home, sometimes we need a bit of assistance with keeping our lives ticking over seamlessly. Life admin isn’t someone doing your chores for you, like grocery shopping, cleaning t...
June 27, 2022Stepping back to gain perspective
Let’s be honest, straight off – I’ve felt like the past two years have been difficult to experience (Covid, missed honeymoon, years missed out on with family etc.) and yet so enlightening. Freeing and yet so isolating. In 2019, I had been working for a VA agency and midway through 2020, the timing felt right to exit and move on to brighter opportunities, like running our own Virtual Assistance company. So, two weeks before our first lockdown here in NZ (March 2020), my husband and I regis...
May 31, 2022VA Community Contributor - Finalist
We are pleased to announce that Katie has been selected as a finalist for the VA Community Contributor award for the 2021 NZ Virtual Assistant Awards! We believe in giving back to the community and in turn, Katie supports start-up VAs on their journeys, by offering mentoring sessions. She also offer support to her fellow VAs when things get a bit wobbly! Thank you to all who supported Katie's nomination especially the ongoing encouragement from The VA Foundry and Virtual Assistant...
August 9, 2021Gold Member!!
We are pleased to announce that 1 Hour a Day have become a certified Gold Member of the New Zealand VA Network.The NZ VA Network is a network of 700+ members across NZ offering remote assistance to clients....
July 11, 2021Unclog your inbox
During Lockdown last year, I signed up for many different free resources to help get me in the zone to launch our business. I recently realised that my inbox is filled daily with emails I never read; marketing tactics that are so emotionally draining they simply get deleted unread. Then I discovered a tool that helps me unsubscribe like magic.Take a look at: Unroll.me https://unroll.me/ and purge yourself of all the unwanted items from your inbox in a few easy steps! PS. The bonus is it i...
June 18, 2021Screen-shotting made easy
I use the Snipping Tool so much in my creative work – when I’m creating manuals for clients and need to copy an image and don’t need an entire screenshot.It can be a bit tricky to capture exactly what you want especially if it has moving images. Step in Snipping Tool:The Delay option is brilliant. Select the number of seconds you wish to delay snip Go to the task or image you wish to capture Select info requiredSnip tool will take screenshot of info for you. Ctrl + V to Paste it into your...
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