EP180: Blake Oliver - The Power of Setting & Revisiting Your Goals

Ad Read: I saw a recent stat that 51% of businesses do annual goal setting, which is not enough, right? We should all be setting annual goals, but, you know, 51%, half, are doing annual goal setting. Only 6% of businesses revisit those goals on a quarterly basis and then figure out, hey, do we need to adjust our goals? Is what we're doing working? Are we getting close? Because if you don't do that, you are not going to hit your goals. Oh, and then the best part of this, of course, is if you do revisit on a quarterly basis, it increases your productivity, your results 300%. 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'm your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a fantastic one. Our guest is a CPA who specializes in cloud accounting technology. He's also the producer and co-host of a weekly weekly news show called The Cloud Accounting Podcast. Blake, welcome to the show. Michael, thanks so much for having me. It's great to reconnect with you after we saw each other in person at QuickBooks Connect in San Jose. That was a hoot. Thank you so much for having me as a guest on your show. I had a ton of fun with that and actually loved how great a job that both you and David did around it and our doing of it. It's making an incredible resource for accountants and bookkeepers literally all over the planet. So well done on that.

Well, thank you. It's a testament to David's ability to, you know, get these events together. He handles the front of house kind of stuff, like booking the events and getting the guests on. And I do the editing and the fun stuff. I consider it fun stuff on the backend. It's a true partnership. We couldn't do it without each other. And it's really nice. Well, you know how hard it is. I think everybody listening knows how hard it is to work with a partner. Long-term. Yes, we've been doing it for 2 years now and it seems to be working. So, you know, if I can keep my marriage together and if I can keep my podcast together, then I'm set. You're set. You've obviously been— but you've been given in life or learned through life some great relationship building and