BONUS: 4 Ways an Executive Assistant Can Simplify Your Life

Focus on This

Michael Hyatt

Planning, Timemanagement, Education, Organization, Michaelhyatt, Productivity, Business, Achievement, Focus, Worklifebalance, Goals

4.5 • 657 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

You spend your days managing details, scheduling meetings, and replying to emails—by the time you start on the “real work,” the workday is half over. Work bleeds into your personal life as you try to make up for lost time. You can’t go on this way, but it does all need to get done. How can you keep the business running without sacrificing your family and your well-being? In this episode, Verbs and Blake talk with Tricia Sciortino, Michael’s first virtual assistant and current CEO of Belay Solutions, and Melissa Lawrence, her executive assistant. They show you how to shift from trying to do it all to focusing your energy where it does the most good by hiring and leveraging an executive assistant. What you invest in an assistant you will get back tenfold as you find your way to the Double Win. In this episode, you’ll discover— 4 responsibilities executive assistants take on to empower your Double Win How your assistant can become a fierce protector of your priorities A life-changing system for managing your inbox The time-saving value of delegating prep work Resources: Belay Solutions Ultimate Guide to Working with a Virtual Assistant See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, what do you think is worse? Living in constant reaction mode or missing the goals that
0:07.6	matter most? Well, what if I told you both problems stem from the same route? And you can actually
0:13.2	fix it, starting now. Join our free training where Michael Hyatt and Marissa Hyatt are going to be talking about rising above
0:22.4	the noise, reclaim your potential and achieve your goals in 2025. It's not just another online
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0:34.2	at fullfocus.co forward slash rise.
0:56.0	Welcome to another episode of Focus on this, the most productive podcast on the internet, so you can banish distractions, get the right stuff done, and finally start Loving Mondays. I'm Verbs here with Blake Stratton and special guest,
1:03.3	Trisha Shortino and Melissa Lawrence. Welcome to the show, guys. How are you?
1:08.5	Hey, I'm honored to be with you today. I am so excited you're here.
1:13.6	Verbs, are you excited? I'm here. I'm actually just wanted to check and make sure you were here
1:17.7	briefly, but you are. So now we can continue to move on. But thanks for being here. Yeah, I was,
1:23.0	that was a little push and pull. I see, I get quiet just to see, would anyone even know, would verbs even notice? So I'm glad that you've met that emotional need. Now that my needs are met,
1:33.1	I'm excited because Trisha and Melissa are from Belay, which is the MVP of Michael Hyatt and
1:44.1	company, if we think about how many clients and us as a company have utilized your company's services.
1:53.9	It's hard to count up all the achievement that Belay has sort of provided the superpowers for.
2:01.7	And in this episode, it's a pleasure to have you because you are going to get to share
2:06.8	from an authority position and an experience level that verbs and I don't have about productivity.
2:13.6	And that's ultimately what people want is to get the right stuff done, to get to focus on what they do best, on where they bring the most value.
2:21.5	But that's a hard bridge to cross.
2:23.7	Trisha and Melissa are experts in this field of bridging that gap that so many of us struggle to bridge for ourselves.
2:32.8	So thank you for taking time to be with us.
2:35.3	Thank you for that amazing picture you just painted of Belay in the MVP's. We appreciate that.
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