It's a brief pause

Less than a month to go until Xmas. How are you feeling about the month ahead?

We're on the home run to the end of the year, and there's been a lot of talk about clients not wanting to start something until the new year.

Have you been hearing or thinking the same thing?

But get this... what starting in the new year really looks like is not likely to be January.

With summer holidays here Down Under and Christmas and New Year festivities if you're in the Northern hemisphere, it's more likely to be February, or even March.

I know it feels like "starting in the new year" is just around the corner but the reality is it's probably 2-3 months away.

What could you achieve for your clients, potential clients, and your own business goals, in 2-3 months?

A lot, right?!!

That's why nothing should wait until next year, and why you should encourage those businesses to get on board now, while there's still a month to go to get things sorted.

Then they, and you, can take a well-earned break feeling confident that things will pick off as you left them in January 2023.

The Xmas / holiday period is about a week and a half long, and at most 3 weeks long if you're taking holidays at this time of year.

It's a brief pause in the grand scheme of things.

And yet we all seem to act as if it's a giant trek across the country that we need to provision for as if we're going away for months.

Yes, there are some practicalities to consider, for sure.

But once those are taken care of, the rest is mindset.

No need to "wait until the new year." The time to act is now. 

 With that said, here are some perfect world scenario questions for you to consider now:

🤔 What would it look like to hit the ground running in January 2023?

🙂 What would you like to have accomplished in the next month to set yourself and your clients up for a strong start in 2023?

🥳 And extrapolating that out, what would it look like to Finish Strong in 2023, because now's the time to start setting your intentions for how you want your business and your life to look like in 2023.  

In From Bookkeeper to Business Owner, my bookkeeping business coaching membership, I'm running our annual planning session this week. We'll be focusing on creating yearly goals, and then breaking those down into a quarterly and then a monthly focus so that you can not only start strong in 2023, but continue the momentum throughout the entire year.

You too can belong to this incredible community of bookkeepers who are making an impact in this world by building thriving bookkeeping businesses that really work for them and for their families.

• maximise profit
• increase productivity
• build better systems

That's what we're all about in From Bookkeeper to Business Owner.

Stephanie 

PS: Interested in working with me as your bookkeeping business coach? Send me an email  or Message me to start the conversation.