057 Atomic Habits for Accountants, Pt. 1: The Fundamentals | #FreshBookReports Vol. 1

Episode 57

#FreshBookReports @ Accounting High (the miniseries) - Part 1 | Recorded March 4, 2022

Sponsored by Freshbooks

Please welcome our newest faculty member at Accounting High, Twyla Verhelst, CPA 

Twyla is the distinguished director of the Accountant Channel and leader of the FreshBooks Accounting Partner Program. She supports and empowers other accounting professionals as they help small businesses flourish.

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear. Whether you’ve read the book or you haven’t, this series of episodes will definitely open you up as to why it has been a favorite among our peers. Hosted by Scott Scarano, we get to hear from him and Twyla about how it impacted them in their practice and life, in general.

Atomic Habits for Accountants Part 1 of 3

2 This is a fresh take on a fresh book

Shoutout Freshbooks

3 The accounting profession is full of people who are constantly looking for opportunities to improve and we’re no different

Shoutout James Clear

6 I believe that you get what you need from a book at the time you read it, and some books are worthy of reading multiple times, for those books you are often rewarded in different ways each time you’re readying them.

8 Scott's dilemma, he's either all in on something or I'm all out of it, never in the middle

12 Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become

13 Systems and goals: If you’re focusing on the systems and processes then you’re more likely to achieve your goals.

16 You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems

21 When habits become automatic you may start to see some BIG shifts in your life, but it’s a buildup of A LOT of the LITTLE things

Shoutout Eminem & Michael Jordan

23 Automatic and Automation: How they impact your profitability

26 Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity by making the fundamentals of life easier, you can create the mental space needed for free thinking and creativity

29 If you don't have to make a choice, you have a much better time with all of the other things, especially the big things

31 Self-talk: How it can help you become the person you want to be

34 When everybody becomes your friend, then you learn so much more

37 Becoming the person that you want to be, starts with changing the person that you are

38 Let’s hear how the Feedback Loop worked for Scott and his firm

40 Twyla talks about her Video Per Day Experiment #vpdexperiment

42 Scott and Twyla wrap up the first part of this miniseries, stay tuned for the next episode!