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ISSN 1939-2834 Don't forget to add "newsletter@virtualassistantnetworking.com" to your email friends list so you won't miss future issues! In This Issue:
From the EditorCountless studies have shown the connection between music, creativity and productivity. Music is good for the soul and that's good for business. Colleen Johnson is here this week with some handy links to start piping in your daily dose of well-being.Be fierce!
Calm Yourself with Music
It never mattered whether I was in a shared space, cubicle area or my own office. These work spaces were always filled with music softly drifting around. What new CD or radio station you were listening to was a frequent topic of conversation in the office. I don’t know why I haven’t had music playing in my home office. I simply hadn’t thought about it until recently joining the Facebook community. This is where I discovered a Facebook group that has a live music feed. I gave it a try and voila! I am working on my laptop while live music is being played in the background. The benefit of this live music feed is that the music is always changing. You don’t have to worry about the CD stopping or the same music being played over and over again. You get a worry-free continuous supply of fresh music while you work. It’s fantastic. If you receive a business call, you simply mute your laptop until you're finished. The difference in my mood has been remarkable. I've begun to turn this feed on at the start of my day. Once the music begins, I’m instantly smiling. I constantly catch myself humming along. What stress? It has been both calming and peaceful for me. There have been countless studies done regarding music therapy and stress relief. Music is a way to combat the stress in your life. It promotes healing. Heart rates are reduced and tense muscles relax. It has also been found that music increases deep breathing. I had no idea I was being so healthy! RESOURCE: There are several live feed sources on the web including I Write the Music and Live-Radio. Your favorite radio station may have its own live music feed that you can pipe right through your computer. I personally will stay with my Facebook find at Live Ireland.
Join the VACOC Kiva Lending Team
Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world. It's free to join and you can make a loan at any time to help a fellow entrepreneur out anywhere in the world. It's good karma and you are repaid 100% in full when the load is paid off. You can lend as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur in the developing world (hey, $25 is a WHOLE LOTTA MONEY in those areas). You choose who to lend to—whether that's a baker in Afghanistan, a goat herder in Uganda, a farmer in Peru, a restaurateur in Cambodia, or a tailor in Iraq—and as they repay the loan, you get your money back. We love it because it's a hand-up, not a hand-out. If you join the VACOC lending team of Virtual Assistants, you'll be joining forces with one of the most respected Virtual Assistant associations out there and working with us to alleviate poverty. Once you're a part of the team, you can choose to have a future loan on Kiva "count" towards our team's impact. The loan is still yours, and repayments still come to you, but you can also choose to have the loan show up in our team's collective portfolio, so the team's overall impact will grow. Anyone is welcome to join our team. I hope you'll join! To sign up (it takes like one minute!), visit: http://www.kiva.org/community/viewTeam?team_id=2197
The Results Are In!
If you are a Virtual Assistant and didn't participate this year, we really encourage you to take part in the next survey. You will be contributing to the effort that is helping the industry grow AND you'll get a copy of the full survey results report once the survey period is over. Only those who participate get the full survey report at no charge. In the meantime, we offer an abridged version of the survey (about half) which gives some of the basic statistical data. Feel free to "take one down and pass it around." You may also publish the results contained in the survey highlights report as long as attribution is given to the VACOC.
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Music
has always been a comfort to me in my work space. When I worked in the
corporate world, music was always floating around in the background. If
the music wasn’t provided, employees were permitted to have a radio
or headphones for their listening enjoyment. 
About
the Author: Colleen M. Johnson, MSVA, is the proud owner of CMJ
Office. A military spouse Virtual Assistant with over 19 years of extensive
administrative experience supporting management at executive and government
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