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People experience anxiety in so many ways.  Most people try to avoid these feelings, but what if instead of avoiding these anxious feelings, you were able to experience your anxiety?  When you are able to intentionally feel your way through your anxiety, you will experience a much different situation.  Think about the last time you were feeling anxious.  Was it when you had to give a presentation, were you anxio...

Hey there, I’m Chris Panek, Certified Public Accountant and Certified Coach, and I have something that will definitely make a difference in your life within the first 30 days of joining.  I know if you’re listening to this podcast, you’re someone who makes big decisions and solves hard problems, and I have a resource that I’m excited to share with you. If today’s topic about how success means very...

One of the questions I receive from my clients is how to transfer funds in QuickBooks Desktop, and QuickBooks Online.  Both have an extremely simple way to do this, but if you are unsure about how to do it, or you do it incorrectly, you could be causing your balance sheet and your income statement to reflect the wrong information.  Recording all your transactions is important to make sure your bank reconciliation goes smo...

Have you ever based a decision you were making on intuition?  Do you ever let your intuition guide you in life?  The basic definition of intuition is to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning.  When you fully understand your wants and needs in life, intuition can be something you rely on.  But what happens when you may not be in sync with what you really want in life?  Is...

Hey there, I’m Chris Panek, Certified Public Accountant and Certified Coach, and I have something that will definitely make a difference in your life within the first 30 days of joining.  I know if you’re listening to this podcast, you’re someone who makes big decisions and solves hard problems, and I have a resource that I’m excited to share with you. If today’s topic about why what if you actual...

The excitement of starting your very own business and the beliefs of your success are high when you are first starting your business.  You think about what you want to sell, how you will sell it, the marketing and just how much your business is needed in the marketplace.  You might have started an online business, you could be a course creator, you may have decided to be a small business coach, life coach, virtual assista...

We all have times in our lives where we feel discomfort.  When discomfort comes up for you, how do you handle it?  Are you afraid of feeling discomfort?  Are you able to move through your feelings of discomfort?  Are you willing to do the uncomfortable things in your life that cause you to feel discomfort?  Most of the clients I work with don’t like the feeling of discomfort, and they find all kinds o...

Hey there, I have something that will definitely make a difference in your life within the first 30 days of joining.  I know if you’re listening to this podcast, you’re someone who makes big decisions and solves hard problems, and I have a resource that I’m excited to share with you. If today’s topic about why smart people have trouble following through resonates with you, I’d love for you to join...

When you think about a paperless business, does this sound like a dream come true, or do you view it more as a nightmare?  There are many businesses that don’t even offer a paper receipt anymore.  So, when you don’t have a receipt, how are you supposed to even manage it?  My clients will ask me about the best way to manage their receipts, and unfortunately, my answer is normally:  It depends.  I...

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As a business owner, you work hard day after day and put in long hours to reach your goals and milestones, but once you have finally reached your milestones, what should you do?  Do you just push forward to reach yet another milestone, or do you actually take the time to pause, celebrate and reward yourself and your team if you have one for a job well done?  When you are just starting your business, there are many milesto...

Is your goal to create more happiness in your life?  So many of us are on the search for happiness that we forget about so many of the other emotions that allow us to be the person we are.  They allow us to grow and gain a different perspective on life.  They allow us to expand and experience our feelings on a much deeper level.  If you’ve been thinking you only want to experience happiness, you might be s...

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Automating your transactions is one of the major ways you can save time when you are doing your bookkeeping.  By utilizing systems such as QuickBooks Online’s bank feeds, you can definitely save a lot of time rather than manually entering each and every transaction, but the only way you will ensure you have reliable information is to make sure you have it set up correctly.  I’ve seen clients who have set up ba...

Do you find yourself thinking about things that you can’t control?  Rather than spending all that energy, I’d like you to start focusing on what you can control.  How you can take responsibility for yourself and everything you do.  When you do this, you’ll see just how much power you actually have in your life.  Ready to start taking responsibility over what you can control in your life?  ...

Hey there, I have something that I think will genuinely make your life a little easier.  I know if you’re listening to this podcast, you’re someone who makes big decisions and solves hard problems, and I have a resource that I’m excited to share with you, the hidden cost of indecision.  Every delayed decision is costing you more than you think.  One of the biggest sources of stress I see among accou...

You started the year off strong, you set all your goals for how you wanted to do your bookkeeping this year, and just like that, it’s June, and now is the time for you to do a mid-year bookkeeping and financial checkup to see how your small business is doing.  Time flies by so quickly, and before you know it, we will be flipping the calendar to the month of December.  Today, we are doing a checkup to make sure you h...

Do you understand why we often tend to fall off the wagon or stop working towards our goals when it gets hard?  Our natural instinct, or our brain’s way of survival, is to seek pleasure, avoid pain, and conserve energy.  It is called the motivational triad, and it’s true for our physical, mental, and emotional needs, and it makes sense that we would want to make sure that we are not hurt, we enjoy ourselves, a...

Hey there, I have something that I think will genuinely make your life a little easier.  I know if you’re listening to this podcast, you’re someone who makes big decisions and solves hard problems, and I have a resource that I’m excited to share with you.  The Reason You Feel Overwhelmed May Surprise You.  If you're like most accountants, business owners, and high-stress professionals I work with, y...