This might seem like a no-brainer, but things are more complicated than you think. Most entrepreneurs say they are totally aware of their needs, but they can’t actually list them down.

Our shoulders carry the weight of many problems and unsatisfied needs, but we perceive them as a homogeneousness mess. It takes effort to split this mess into distinct elements. Our lives are moving super-fast and we must react to hundreds of things at once, so often we just feel overwhelmed, tired, dissatisfied, and angry.

Many business owners can’t see how a remote assistant could represent the solution to their problems because they can’t list their needs. They feel how overwhelming everything is and they know a virtual assistant can’t make that feeling go away. They are right, a remote assistant can’t make feelings go away, and they can’t fix the problems they don’t know about.

When entrepreneurs break their burden into smaller loads, each of them can be tackled. Burnout can be avoided. That extreme state of tiredness is the result of too many daily tasks that need to be handled. When the burden can be translated into a list of tasks, those tasks can be delegated. The burden can be shared. That is what a remote assistant can do for business owners. Take away o part of the daily burden, the day to day stress that entrepreneurs have to deal with.

So, what are your needs? Make a list of tasks that are part of your daily burden and start looking for a remote assistant to help you live your life to the fullest by removing part of the stress and anguish.

A friend of ours, that we’ll call Mike, is a start-up founder. He had a really cool business idea and started working on launching and managing his business a few months ago. He did everything himself and it’s no surprise that things got a little out of hand. He started feeling angry all the time, he was upset that clients expect too much from him. His solution to this problem was to look for a business partner, someone to whom he could offer 45% of his company and who in return would start handling a part of Mike’s clients. He thought that what he needed was a business partner. What he actually needed was to find out what tasks were forming his burden.

Mike’s day was wasted managing a chaotic customer care system, answering prospect emails that only in 2 out of 10 cases became sales, creating presentations, and calling potential business partners and buyers.

By hiring a remote assistant to handle customer care and office administration, Mike stopped stressing out because his needs were met. He no longer had to waste the time he should have used to grow his business to answer emails or managing social media comments, and he didn’t have to give up almost half of his company to get the help he needed. For just a few dollars/hour, Mike transformed his business and his life.