Is a Virtual Assistant the secret to consistent high production and life balance?

If you are a salesperson, you were hired to generate revenue, period.  If you are a business owner – you know all-to-well that, no revenue – no business.  So when you are “on” 24/7 [at least mentally] how do you find the balance to be able to really turn it “off” without the sacrifice of lost revenue?
The answer is simpler that you may think at first.  Just because things may need to be going 24/7, doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to be going all that time.  You, like me, have a ton of other “stuff” that must be done to be successful that pulls time away from revenue generating activities and family time.  What if someone else did it instead – buying your time back to do the things that matter?
I have seen and experienced the ups and downs of sales production.  Prospecting like a crazy person one month creates a bunch of those lower payoff activities so you use the following month to do them.  What happens?  Since you missed a month of prospecting, the third month suffers lower output.  This is a crazy salesperson-production-cycle and the only way I have seen to avoid it is to stay in the zone of prospecting.
Okay, so I built that case for hiring someone but who?  I too have made the mistake in the past of not leading with revenue – meaning I mistakenly hired people on if-come, not income.  I assumed that if I brought someone on before the money was there – the money would come.  While it is possibly true it is certainly a risky proposition.  This is especially true when you look at bringing someone on in your office for $10+ USD an hour and have to give them a place to work as well.  I don’t know about you, but committing to $1660 a month on an unknown was a lot to stomach.