Blog for CPAs

As our country celebrates 250 years of independence, I've been thinking about freedom. For accountants, freedom often looks like one thing: "If I could just quit my job and start my own firm, I'd finally be free." Having founded and led three companies, I've learned...

If I had to choose one book that has had the greatest impact on my life, it would be The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer. It is, without question, my favorite book of all time. What makes this book so meaningful to me is that when I first read it, it felt...

There's a productivity myth that most of us have been running on for years. It goes something like this: the more you commit to, the more you'll get done. Fill the list, fill the day, push through, and eventually it all adds up. Except it doesn't. Not really. Not in a...

You wake up with good intentions. You have a full day ahead, a list of things that need to get done, and the motivation to get started. But by mid-afternoon, something shifts. The simplest decisions feel harder than they should. You know you need to work on something...

There's a belief most women in accounting carry around without even realizing it. It sounds like this: if I just had more time, I could get it all done. More hours in the day. More days in the week. More capacity, somehow, squeezed out of an already full life. But...

There's a version of this story that almost every mom building a practice knows personally. The kids are finally asleep. The house is quiet. You open your laptop and tell yourself: now I can actually get something done. This is your time. The only time that feels like...