EP354: Becky Daniels - Business Building: How To Set Small Goals To Achieve Big Ones

Michael Palmer: The mission of my business is building a business that serves my family instead of my family serving a business, and to help my clients do the same. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael 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, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a very interesting one. Our guest is the owner of Daniels Business Solutions based in Tennessee, and she's also a Pure Bookkeeping licensee. Becky Daniels, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here. Oh, it's great to have you. And I, I just always love hearing the business journey of our licensees and in fact, bookkeepers in general. It's always been for me something of interest to hear how things got started, how they ended up that way. It's been a curiosity my whole life, so I love these episodes. And so, Becky, tell us a little bit about your career journey leading up to this point as we get into this.

Becky Daniels (Apr 4): I'd love to. I have a pretty nontraditional journey to where I am. I like to call myself a recovering engineer. I studied industrial engineering in school, and it was the most natural thing in the world. Industrial is basically like systems engineering. So anything from your computer systems to manufacturing systems. And what I was really planning to focus on are medical practices and hospitals as far as like developing their efficiencies in their processes and their different systems. And, but I graduated in December of 2001, right after September 11th, and there just flat out were not jobs available. So I just took what I could get, which ended up being light manufacturing, and it was just truly awful. And as most first jobs out of school tend to be, I did learn a lot though about how not to run a business, um, which which has been truly, truly valuable in the long term. So once I decided to leave that position, I ended up actually in pharmaceutical sales and I never— I don't remember ever taking out my sales pieces and showing them to the doctors. Instead, I built relationships by doing little projects in their practice. I would help them by doing the things that I was