EP395: Ashley Chamberlain - The Importance Of Planting Seeds For Future Success - Part 2

Michael Palmer: there was no clarity on the kind of business owner I wanted to be because I just went from thing to thing. Now, knowing that everything's taken care of, I have this freedom to imagine how do I want to show up? What am I passionate about? And when I do those things, I can tell a huge difference. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael I'm Michelle Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by PureBookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, I'm Michael Palmer. And now it's part 2 of our 2-part series with bookkeeping business owner, Ashley Chamberlain. In this conversation, she'll share the power of outsourcing, which has helped her greatly to balance her business and her family life. All right, let's get to that conversation. Now, when it, when it comes to your life, you know, you were working a job, you were doing, you had this business going. How did you manage the rest of life? I mean, you, of my notes here talk about delegation, hiring cleaners, like getting stuff off your plate. Tell us a little bit about that.

Ashley Chamberlain with Gusto ad: Yeah, that was— so working 45+ hours a week at a job, then coming home and doing what needed to be done for my business, I was still in that situation where I felt like I'm not super present in my home like I want to be. So I really had to do— I hate to say it because I know it's— it's a terrible, awful thing to go through, but a time audit. And I had to look at what am I spending my time doing that I could allow someone else to do? And I think— I don't think I would have known what those things were if I didn't stop and audit what I was doing. Because in my mind, I thought, well, I'm doing things because nobody else can do it. Nobody else can clean my house. Nobody else can watch my kids the same way that I watch them. Nobody else can post the things on social media like me. And it's such a wrong way to look at it because what I found was when I started writing down the things that I was doing every single day, Sunday through Saturday, there was never any breaks for myself or my family. So I was either hustling around trying to do something or hustling my kids around and Once I did that time on it, I