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Hi! I’m Tammy, co-owner and principal provider of TASK Virtual Assistant, LLC - website: https://thetaskva.com. While this isn’t my first time starting a business, this will be my first successful business! As a kid I ran a bicycle repair shop out of our garage, and in my early teens I would type college students’ manuscripts for a nickel a page!! About 24 years ago, I began a financial and business support service, but I really didn’t have a clue what I was doing and it failed miserably. So why now? What changed? I love being an assistant and helping people, and have always wanted to be my own boss, but two things held me back: financially I couldn’t take the plunge, and I lacked the confidence – especially after that first failure. Then I lost my job and was not having success with the job search (if I hear overqualified one more time I just may forget I’m a lady!! ) and then I received a letter about a state program that would give me the training I needed to start my own business, and, on the same day, my sister texted me a link to check out something about learning how to become a virtual assistant from vanetworking.com!! My decision was made. The timing was right. Time to jump out of my comfort zone and start doing something for myself…and here I am. I launched Oct. 31, 2019, and was very fortunate to have attended VAVS the week before! What I learned there actually gave me the courage and confidence to face the daunting task of breaking ties with my first client!! (Thank you Tawnya for letting me know that was ok to do!!) It really wasn’t a good match and it was better to quickly pull off that band aid! I offer an array of administrative and office support services, but my niche is Bookkeeping. I completely geek out over a spreadsheet – seriously, numbers are so sexy!! A few personal things about me: I make my own wine, and I love to sew. I designed an apron for my daughter and granddaughter and a friend said “Apron Wine”, and my label was born. I go absolutely nuts for Corgis. I lost my furbaby a few years back, but he was a character. Thought he was a cat! So it goes to reason that the cat who adopted me 3 years ago – Stumpers (our “CEO”) thinks she’s a dog!! One of my favorite sounds is the true clacking of typewriter keys. My mom gave me my first Smith Corona manual typewriter when I was 13 .I immediately fell in love with the clacking of the keys! Oh yeah, and I’m very much an introvert but working on it! I hope this wasn’t too long!! I do have issues wrapping things up. But I am very much looking forward to being a part of this community!!

Tawnya you are just AWESOME!!! I can't believe it, but you just really nailed it. Thanks for all the GREAT ideas. You have definitely solved a problem for me which I've had for many years. I sooooo! appreciate the help! Janice

Everybody has an exceptional reason throughout everyday life, and finding and following that intention is the way to making an upbeat, bounteous, significant and satisfying life for yourself. Now and then, however, for some reason, you may unknowingly float away from your remaining consistent with your motivation, or you may think you are on the correct way when truly you're going the other way of where you planned to go. The uplifting news is, the universe needs you to experience your motivation and appear on the planet as your best self. When you tune in to the universe, it gives you solid flags that let you realize when you've gone off track and are no longer on the way to satisfying your actual reason throughout everyday life. On the off chance that you see any of the accompanying obvious pieces of information in your life, it might be a reasonable sign that it's the ideal opportunity for a course rectification. Everybody has an exceptional reason throughout everyday life, and finding and following that intention is the way to making an upbeat, bounteous, significant and satisfying life for yourself. Now and then, however, for some reason, you may unknowingly float away from your remaining consistent with your motivation, or you may think you are on the correct way when truly you're going the other way of where you planned to go. The uplifting news is, the universe needs you to experience your motivation and appear on the planet as your best self. When you tune in to the universe, it gives you solid flags that let you realize when you've gone off track and are no longer on the way to satisfying your actual reason throughout everyday life. On the off chance that you see any of the accompanying obvious pieces of information in your life, it might be a reasonable sign that it's the ideal opportunity for a course rectification. 1. You've Lost Interest In Thing You Once LovedSatisfying your motivation in life ought to be profoundly fascinating and imperative to you. If you have a feeling that your work has lost its significance and importance, that might be a sign from the universe that you have veered far from your actual reason. I urge you to ask yourself: What would I be able to change or do another way with the goal that my work is all the more satisfying and I am never again only making an insincere effort? 2. You Thirst for Change The following sign to keep an eye out for is a consistent hunger for change. We as a whole need to have new encounters. That is a unique and significant piece of being human. In any case, when you are entirely living your motivation, you aren't longing for something else constantly. You adore what you're doing as such much. You would prefer not to do whatever else. So on the off chance that you end up normally fantasizing about accomplishing something else, that can be a reasonable sign that a change is actually what you need. 3. You're Stressed Out Stress is your psyche's and your body's method for telling you that something isn't directly in your life. At times, the wellspring of your pressure might be self-evident, for example, a stressed relationship, money related inconveniences, or some other number of elements. Different occasions, however, it very well may be hard to pinpoint precisely why you are encountering pressure. Everything appears to be fine superficially – yet you can never appear to unwind and enable yourself to be glad completely. That is an excellent piece of information that your life as you've presently structured it isn't giving you the delight and satisfaction you hunger for. 4. You're Annoyed and Irritated Another thing to pay a unique mind to is the point at which you feel continually aggravated and irritated by each easily overlooked detail that occurs. I'm not looking at managing an individual or circumstance that the vast majority would discover irritating, for example, managing a mishap at work or having somebody cut you off in rush hour gridlock. I'm discussing the seemingly insignificant details that regularly wouldn't trouble you all of a sudden driving you up to the divider. On the off chance that this ever transpires, think of it as might be the universe endeavoring to reveal to you that you're on the wrong way. 5. You Have Unexplained Chronic Pain Something else to keep an eye out for is unexplained endless torment. Torment is an indication that something isn't directly in our bodies. In any case, it can likewise be an indication that something isn't directly in our lives. On the off chance that you are managing repeating torment that you and your specialists can't clarify, the wellspring of that torment might be the way that you are not on the correct way. Since when you know at an intuitive or soul-profound dimension that you are not carrying on with your life in arrangement with the main thing to you, that message will in some cases make itself known to you as physical torment. I know many individuals who have seen their unexplained physical agony reduce or leave completely once they made the correct changes in their lives and started seeking after their actual reason. A specialist I had in a preparation a couple of years prior had consistent headache cerebral pains. When we dug into the issue, he uncovered that he never truly needed to be a specialist. His genuine energy was chipping away at vehicles. Be that as it may, he originated from a family where everybody was a specialist, his mom, his dad, his uncle, his more seasoned sibling, and sister. He was required to turn into a specialist. Maybe taking a shot at vehicles was underneath the family status. By and by, he surrendered his situation at the medical clinic and opened a carport where he took a shot at outlandish autos, and his headaches all of a sudden vanished. 6. Feel No Joy in What You Do Euphoria is the main bit of input that discloses to you when you're on the correct way. What's more, on the off chance that you pursue your bliss, it will manage you toward your fantasies since nothing will bring you more happiness and satisfaction than completely living your actual reason. So on the off chance that you aren't encountering happiness in your everyday life, that is an incredible flag that you are not on the correct way. The uplifting news is, when you focus on the message the Universe is sending you, you can alter your course and utilize your bliss as a compass to discover and remain on the way that will lead you to the life you had always wanted.

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I love how easily I can stay on top of my business using just my iPhone! Do you have an iPhone yet? If you’re like many owners, you most likely access your iPhone for a variety of personal and even some business uses. You probably use the GPS to find your way to appointments. I know I’d be lost downtown Vancouver if it wasn’t for my Maps App! Maybe you use a financial application like Mint to stick to your budget. You might even use a note-taking application to track ideas. However, chances are your iPhone is underutilized. Read full blog post here

Darrell, they gave you great suggestions. Since I am the queen of cheap, I have to tell you that most of the things you need can be gotten for free, either because there's a free version of the software, or with Open Source (www.opensourcemaven.com has a great list). This is the list of what I use. All of it was free. AVG 7.5 Ad-aware SE Firewall (came with the computer) Diskeeper Lite Adobe Reader 7.0 eFax Messenger Zoho CRM PDFCreator Instant messengers (Skype with Pamela, AIM, Yahoo, MSN) Switch (for switching audio to another format) TimeStamp and MyHours WinZip (evaluation version) Extract Now (opens some programs WinZip doesn't) WinAmp and Windows Media player NVU HTML editor Folder Marker (unneccessary, but fun) Open Source Office Suite Plus, your computer comes with stuff installed so take a good look at your list of programs under the Start menu. Free doesn't always mean you get the best programs. Free is good in the beginning when you don't have money coming in. If you are going to spend money, I'd recommend you start with the Microsoft Office. Open Source is fine "for now" but Microsoft has so many bells and whistles that you will love it.