Hope.Everyone has own hopes and dreams to achieve what you desire. Either for family and self growth for your career, there is a perseverance and hopes that you can reach your goals. Find a way, all the options and resources that can help you for the pursuit of your success in this profession.
Resiliency.There will be ups and downside of the opportunity around. Frustrations is normal to carry on and stress you to dig out your potentials. But this difficulties won’t let you give up, fight for what you want to be. You’re a go- getter. You must have the ability to “bounce back” from your difficult circumstances. Let the challenges be your strength and learning avenues.
Confidence.Believe that everything you do is the mirror of your potentials. You can do things effectively. You can break difficult task when situation arise. Put yourself in the things you can master and you can take an ownership on that. Your client will be more impress if you have that confidence.Make sure not as over confident, be humble enough as well.
Honesty.Pretending to be good in everything is unbelievable to say. Everyone starts from having a learning development and a room for improvement. Introduce whatever skills you have right now. If the client mentioned unfamiliar to you, your friend Google is on the go. Tell your client that it is new to you and you’re interested to know more about.
Acceptance.Know the fact there is always the best people among the rest. It might not be your best at the moment of your application. Do remember the Sun and Moon has its own time to shine bright much more to us, human. Know how to accept client’s feedbacks, accept it positively. Take it as constructive criticism as your area for improvement. Anyway you accepted the job and everything follows.
Keep in mind that there a lot of positive ways how to become a Virtual Professional. Its never too late to try, don’t get overwhelmed if there are variety of skills required. We need time to do steps by steps. Step one at a time. You won’t notice you will find your niche, when you get a client that suits and match to your talent.
To help you out and figure out more how to be like us, you check this out, one of my mentor : Susan Mershon , The Techie Mentor is a VA Coach & Trainer specializing in coaching new Virtual Assistants in building a successful business.