EP298: Dr. Arin Reeves - How To Prevent Burnout & Realize Your True Value - Part 2

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Michael Palmer: Welcome back to The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and this week we have part 2 of our fun conversation with Dr. Aaron Reeves. Who is the President and Managing Director at Nexions LLC, on the way. In part 1, we had an interesting chat about how to deal with bad clients. In this episode, we'll continue that dialogue and also discuss the concept of your life hours. Alrighty, let's get to it. I think it's a trap to say, well, look, I can't do this because of finances, or I can't live a better life because of some barrier. But that's just momentary in this moment. But if we don't say, I want that for my life, it might take me 10 years, but that's a journey worth taking if it's going to mean that I get what's going to fulfill me more in my life. And it's something, a concept that I learned from one of my mentors, Peter Cook, was life hours. And we're kind of talking about a little bit in that. And if I start thinking about a client, I'm burning up my life hours by thinking, my mind is burning life hours. I'm thinking about a client, if it's not a happy thought, I'm burning up life hours in an unhappy way. And so this is a similar thing. It's like, I don't like what I'm doing, or I don't like these clients, but I need them because of the money. Well, make a choice to say, I'm gonna build a business with all those a-holes, assholes. I don't know what Apple will think about our language on this podcast, but who cares?

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