April 8th, 2009

WAHM Dreaming

Every wahm has a dream about her business – maybe that it earns enough to help with the household expenses, maybe we just want a little fun money or maybe we want to be the next million dollar mom! I’m putting into words my big wahm dreams, and I hope you’ll share yours with me!

Ok, this is part of my “series” (not officially, lol – just going to be several related posts over time and I may recap them into one post when I’m done!) on where I want to go with my virtual legal assistant business.

I had a list of business aspirations I set out at the beginning of this year, but my long term goals and planning has been more private – ok, not even private, more just not set out at all!! I’ve got vague ideas in my head, but nothing really committed to paper! So here goes nothing, a list of my big dreams for Halo Secretarial over the next couple of years:

• Committed clients and total of 30+ billable hours per week.
• Two conferences per year (one legal/one VA?)
• One long vacation per year plus three or four long weekend mini-vacations
• Busy enough to subcontract out some of my general admin work
• Busy enough to hire someone to help clean my house

You know, it’s funny when I start writing it all down it doesn’t seem out of reach at all! In fact I’m pretty sure I can make these things happen. I wonder if I don’t dream big enough or if things just seem hard to attain until we really, really think of what we want. Cause really? All I want is to make a good living from doing something interesting and challenging and to be around when my kiddos need me. Being a virtual assistant offers me that possibility – the income part will come as I work on building my client base!!

So do you dream bigger than this? What do you want your business to provide for you and where do you want it to go eventually – post in the comments or link back to my post with a post of your own (hey – you need room to dream big!!)