You don’t want to be like business owners who go blindly year-to-year, making just enough money to get by, but knowing deep down they’re capable of so much more. Each year they make New Year’s resolutions or goals to do things differently. Each year they stay in the same old rut.
Is it your goal this year to increase your income to reflect your true value as a freelance bookkeeper or accountant? Wonderful! Now that you’ve made it, what have you done with that goal? Are you consciously building the energy to accomplish it or have you already allowed the energy to fade away?
To me, the energy of this year feels hopeful and limitless. It feels like this will be a breakthrough year for many freelance bookkeepers. How about you? Are you feeling like this going to be your year for taking your freelance bookkeeping business to that 6 or 7 figure income?
To get there, the key question is: How slow or fast are you willing to grow?
The first step is picking your number. Do you want to increase your income by 50%? Do you want to double your income? Do you want to increase your income by 1000%? That’s all possible. As you step into believing that it’s possible, then you create it. Yes, it may be scary, but that’s a good thing.
Don’t be slowed down by the negative energy that says, “I’ll be successful when I make...” When you have those kinds of thoughts you put out energy that your success is in the future, not something that you’ll ever reach. You’re just chasing something.
You don’t want to buy into the myth of arrival. Guess what? There is no arrival. Life, including your business, is a journey. It takes different twists and turns. Sometimes it’s easy. Sometimes it’s not. Enjoy the journey and the challenges that come each day. Tell yourself, "This is happening now. It’s not forever."
The number one success ingredient for every business owner is to be personally and energetically responsible. That’s the universal law of cause and effect. You are the cause of everything that is created in your business and life. You have a part in everything you are experiencing.
That may be tough to acknowledge. Everyone needs to ask, "What was my role in something? Am I being integral? Am I doing what I say I’m going to do? Does what I promise feel good to me? Is it in alignment? Am I offering too much? Am I not offering enough?"
It helps to step back, look objectively at your own situation, and treat yourself as though you were your best friend. If your best friend was going through what you are, wouldn’t you say, “You didn’t know better at that point. Now you do. What can you change?” This helps you to see how you’ve been showing up and what you can change.
All of this is part of healing your personal money relationship so that you can pay it forward and help your clients heal their relationship with money. Often when we try to go it alone we can’t see things clearly. That’s why The Bookkeeper’s Club was formed – to give support and processes every freelance bookkeeper needs to reach their goals. Won’t you join us?
E.T. Barton has been in bookkeeping since 1998. In 2002, she began her own business specializing in bookkeeping, office administration, and market financial feasibility research. She has worked on a large variety of books - from construction, retail, restaurants, and resorts - and completed research for businesses both large and small. To learn more about her, read her article: 
