Working together with a virtual assistant that does transcription work for me and orders my thoughts

Yesterday I experienced serious writer's block. Nothing unusual for me.

Writer's Block (Photo credit: Elemento Zeca)

My solution: "call up" my virtual assistant. Actually, I didn't really call, but just used an application from Catch.com to record a message.

I was 1.5 hours long..! But at least it got me over my writers' block.

Simply telling what projects I was thinking about, how I wanted items be ordered, while dictating pieces and parts of future articles for transcription was surprisingly easy.

I was very eager to find out that my VA had successfully worked through the gibberish to yield some nicely polished stuff to work with.

This essentially replaced my writing work with a polish-and-put-the-best-stuff-together work. Which is way easier.

Writer's Block: 0 - Virtual Assistant: 1

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Working focussed on both of my website projects - how to keep concentrated

Another great day for building my future!

I grabbed my girlfriend - who is writing her own book - and we decided to spend the day working side by side together, instead of each one of us alone in their dark room.

Unsocial computer geek instantly transformed into meaningful date. How cool is that?! :)

I got caught by my own productivity trick I set up long ago on my second laptop, which I took to her to work with. As I routinely tried to check something on Facebook - it must have been reaaally important - the Leachblocker plugin hit me and blocked the site!

 

It payed off setting up a productivity program once - and forgetting it. Now I'm blogging instead of Facebook lurking...

Probably a bit more effective but not working yet.

Let's get back to keyword research and business planning. There is much to do!

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