241 How to Get Down to 25 Hours

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The hustle can be tempting: all that activity seems to have a positive effect. 

Hustle too much, and risk becoming stretched too thin across too many areas of your accounting practice. 

Hustle for too many years, and risk burning out.

If you don't solve your hustle problems now, you run the risk of carrying your hustle problems with you as your accounting practice grows. 

And as your accounting practice grows, the problems that caused hustle in the first place continue to grow, leading to more and more hustle.

Consider solving problems that cause hustle now, so you don’t carry them with you.

In this episode, I give you eight hustle-related thought patterns to consider shifting:

 

1. From: “The way to solve this is by working more.” To: “Working less is better for me, my clients, and my business.” 
2. From: “I am always behind.” To: “I am on top of my work.” To: I am getting ahead of my work.” 
3. From: “There’s always more to do.” To: “My responsibilities are finite.” 
4. From: One-time, this-time solutions to the solution that also works when your accounting practice is twice the size.
5. From: “This is how we’ve done it.” To: Bigger, better, faster results for your clients. 
6. From: Speed and intensity. To: Slowing both mind and actions down.
7. To: All the ways that when you work less your clients have a better experience. 
8. To: All the ways that extra time is good for you and extra time is good for your staff.

 

Going from 40 down to 25 hours requires a new set of skills, and a new way of thinking. 

When you work less, it’s better for your accounting practice, it’s better for your clients, and it’s better for you.