Not all stress is bad—but the kind that clogs your brain and slows your leadership is. In this post, Micah Foster breaks down how “bad stress” silently kills your capacity and how the right Executive Assistant can help you offload the mental load, reclaim your focus, and lead at your highest level. Ready to stop carrying it all alone?
Continue ReadingDisrupting the Flow: How My EA Got Responses When I Couldn’t
After weeks of hearing crickets from prospective clients, Micah Foster made one simple shift—he handed off parts of his inbox to his Executive Assistant. The result? Conversations that had stalled suddenly moved forward. In this post, Micah shares what happens when you trust your EA to take the lead in communication—and how a fresh voice can break through the noise and spark real momentum.
Continue ReadingNew Year, New Focus: A Preview for a Purposeful Year
Here’s an excerpt for this post:
Welcome to the New Year! 🎉
As we turn our focus forward, it’s time to use last year’s insights to create a roadmap for growth. Here’s a framework to help you set intentional goals and design a year aligned with your vision.
Set Your Intentions: Choose a guiding theme for the year—a word like “growth” or “balance”—to serve as your North Star.
Define Big Goals: Identify 3-5 ambitious goals that would make this year extraordinary.
Break Down Goals: Make big goals achievable by mapping out actionable steps and milestones.
Establish Key Habits: Create daily or weekly routines that support your goals.
Plan for Obstacles: Anticipate challenges and have a plan to stay resilient.
Stay Accountable: Share your goals with someone you trust for motivation and support.
End by visualizing your success—how will it feel to reach your goals? Let this vision inspire you through the year. Here’s to a year of purpose, progress, and impact!
PROMPT don’t PESTER
“Mastering the Art of Proactive Communication: How Our EAs Stay Ahead”
At Dream Support, our remote Executive Assistants continually refine their skills through collaborative training and peer learning. Recently, we focused on a vital aspect of client relationships: prompting for additional work without pestering. As an EA, navigating the balance between being proactive and respectful is crucial. In this post, we share practical steps to ensure you remain an invaluable asset during workflow lulls. From closing every loop to crafting thoughtful questions, discover how to prompt with finesse and maintain seamless client communication. Dive in to learn more! 🚀🌟
Continue ReadingNo Fight = No Purpose
Movies without conflict are boring. 💤 Shows without drama are bleh. 👎 Why? They lack purpose! 🌠 We find our deepest meaning when we’re fighting for a cause, a dream, or a purpose and that purpose needs to be bigger than ourselves! 💥 You might be fighting for a thriving […]
Continue ReadingThe Power of Task Stacking
Here’s a quick game-changing tip 💡 for your productivity playbook – Task Stacking. 📚 Task Stacking: Like-Tasks, One Block, Maximum Impact ⚡ Picture this 📸: Instead of jumping from one task to another, scattering your focus like confetti 🎉, what if you grouped similar tasks and tackled them in one […]
Continue ReadingThe Unscalable Heart of Your Business
It’s the little things that can truly make a difference. You know, those moments that make you grin from ear to ear and say, “Wow, they really get me!” 😁 So, today let’s dive into the magical world of “surprise and delight” ✨ and see how it can set you […]
Continue ReadingRemote or Virtual Doesn’t Mean Artificial
As technology continues to shape the way we work, here’s an important reminder: Just because someone may work remotely 💻 doesn’t mean they’re artificial.🤖In our context, a Dream Support remote Executive Assistant is not an AI or a robotic entity but a living, breathing human being.🙋 They have dreams, ambitions, […]
Continue ReadingEliminating Mental Ping-Pong
As an entrepreneur or business leader, you’re all too familiar with the game of Mental Ping-Pong. It’s that constant back-and-forth in your mind as you juggle a multitude of tasks, priorities, and decisions. But what if there was a way to end this exhausting mental match and focus your energy […]
Continue Reading😄 Save Your Marriage, Get an Assistant 💔
My wife, and business partner, is a stellar Executive Assistant, but she is NOT my Executive Assistant! Maybe that comes as a surprise, but I think it’s a smart play. Over the past few months I’ve had several conversations that go something like this, “Right now my wife (or significant […]
Continue Reading