Delegation Challenge – Days 9-11

The 30-day delegation challenge continues. Today is actually Day 14 of the challenge, but I’m breaking this update into smaller chunks because there’s a lot to share, so I’ll just cover Days 9, 10, and 11 in this post. Day 9 – Organization and Conversation I’ve continued to experiment with Magic for outsourcing, and I’m gradually getting used to having a team of virtual assistants available to me 24/7. This is such different way of thinking about tasks and projects, and it’s taking me a while to wrap my head around it. I keep dreaming up new ideas for how I could better leverage the service – and VAs, outsourcing, and delegation in general. Sometimes I feel as if a whole new world is opening up to me. It turns out that Mike Chen, Magic’s CEO, is aware of this challenge. He’d already known about me from my polyphasic sleep days when I blogged about that experiment in 2005. When he learned that I was trying Magic, he suggested that we connect. That sounded good to me. Instead of emailing him back, I thought it would be clever to delegate the task of arranging of the call to Magic. Of course to Mike and to Magic, that was really no big deal and perhaps a bit predictable. Since I’m only a week into this, even using a VA service to schedule a call is a new experience. That call happened the next day (Day 10). Today I better organized my delegation ideas in Scrivener, separating them into personal and business lists. I have ...
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