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Being a business owner can be a very lonely place. Your friends and family want to listen and help you, but they usually do not understand what it is like to have your own business. They do not see the ugly truths that you may face when running your type of business. Unless your “person” is in the same...

I made the decision that I did not want to work crazy hours during tax season. I was either going to have to hire another tax professional or only have a certain number of tax returns. This is different for everyone. Since making this decision it has made tax season so more bearable...

If someone would have asked me this years ago, I would have answered “no”.  I was working all the time, nights, and weekends. It was horrible. I was missing my daughters growing up. Yes, I was home with them but working at home. This was not what I really wanted for myself or my family...

I never realized how important it was to get things out of my head. I never even realized what all lived there. When I started brainstorming what all lived there, it was a scary place. No wonder I was forgetting things and felt that I was losing....

One day I just decided that I was done trying to work out of the problem. I drew that line in the sand and decided I needed to get my $h*t together! I needed to focus on what I needed to do to fix my business. I had the right team in place, but it still sucked! Why? Because..

I think we all suffer from brain overload. There is so much coming at us from so many different directions. We have clients asking us questions that they expect us to know the answer to. For those of us with a team, we have team members that are constantly...

When you want something to happen it usually does. When you are feeling defeated and just used to it being this way that is the way it stays. I challenge you to make this year different. Why do you work all those hours? Are you productive? Look at what you are working on....

 I often get stuck that it must be perfect before I can move on. I over analyze it and then suffer from paralyzation. You know the saying Paralysis by Analysis!  I think it to death and do not move forward with it because in my mind it is not perfect. I have gotten stuck there so many times...

 Since starting my new job here at Liondas CPA in 2019, I have come a long way in the way I perceive technology. I was always intimidated by new technology when it was presented to me. The thought of having to try something new, even though it is always for the best, stresses me out...