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I love being able to spend time with my most favourite gal. ME! There was a time when being alone would have scared the sh.t out of me. At one time in my life, I would have always had to keep busy. My bestie said something that stuck with me until now, "What is wrong, don't you like yourself" I kinda brush it off and promptly went back to staying busy.  But somewhere along the line as I started on my journey of self-discovery, I began to understand why she would ask that question.  Taking time for me and my thoughts, as scary and chaotic as they are it was such a good move in the right direction for me. I generally spend my quiet time reading, deep thinking and writing in my journal. Sometimes there is no plan, I just wing it. I sleep, drink water, stay indoors and ask myself questions that I need answers to. Often I do not get the answers, but there are times when an entire plan would come through. I have learnt to trust the process and stay faithful t...

  Today's Blog is about Batching and how it can help with productivity, Batching is a term I have heard many times and I incorporated it into my professional life. It has yielded very good results for me and as such, I would love to share it with you guys. Let's dig in; Batching Definition:   Batching is a manufacturing term it means products are made in a specified group or amount, within a time frame. Batching is a  process, therefore it can be applied to different situations and as such it has been transferred to the productivity world.  There are many tasks that you can do in batches some examples are writing, content creation, editing etc. A simple search on Youtube will yield results of YouTubers talking about how they batch their content creations, filming multiple videos on the same day, writing several blog post and so on. You can, therefore, understanding how the process of batching can apply to your productivity. By groupi...

Today I want to talk a bit about a new term that I recently learnt. “Locus of Control” and how this concept can affect us achieving our goals. What is the Locus of Control? According to Google   “In personality psychology, locus of control is the degree to which people believe that they have control over the outcome of events in their lives, as opposed to external forces beyond their control” Which is saying that the results that you are producing in any area of your life is a because of your behaviour and choices or it can be to be blamed solely to external forces There are two types of Locus of Control according to psychologists, Internal and External. When hard/pressing times are met do you think you have what it takes to pull through or do you think that the outside forces are in complete control?  If you think that you have control then you are governed by Internal Locus of Control and if you think the latter then you have w...

We all know what it feels like to have an inbox with 2000 emails. We all know what it feels like when we have to search through to find what we are looking for. And we all know how many hours it would take us to sort it out. Below is a video I found on youtube created by Successful by Design, take a listen and gather some tips. I found it useful a long time ago, I am sure that you will too. Sending Good Vibes as always

My name is Natasha, a part-time Virtual Assistant from Guyana South America. Natasha VA Business is a virtual service provider which offers Virtual business management and support services to busy Women Entrepreneurs. The dream is to build this into a thriving business, where I can then provide gainful employment in a creative safe space for young and not so young women who are upcoming VA’s from my country. As a Virtual Assistant, it is imperative that there is constant learning to add value to my clients and grow my business. Email marketing, Social Media, Digital Marketing etc, to name a few. Instagram is a favourite of mine and it is also for about one billion monthly users, 60 % of which logs in daily. In an effort to stay on top of the game Instagram is constantly tweaking the way they display your content. In 2019 thus far there has been so many and more is rolling out.  In this blog, I bring 3 of these changes to you     1. Sharing Posts to S...