EP198: Jim Flauaus - How Determination Will Guide You To Success

Ad Read: Basically, when I first got started, if you had a business, you were a prospect. You know, if you could sign a check, you were going to be a client because I needed clients. And I realized about 3 or 4 years into it, you know, here I was. I wanted to go into business for myself. I'd always dreamed of owning my own business. Now I own my business, be my own boss. And it dawned on me about 3 or 4 years in, I wasn't my own boss. I had like 31 bosses. And they all had different types of businesses with different types of needs and different demands. And I was just like pulled in 15 directions. It was crazy. 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 fantastic one. Our guest is the owner of Anchor Accounting and Tax. And is a Pure Bookkeeping licensee. Jim Flaus, welcome to the show. Hey, Michael, thank you. I'm just honored to be a part of it. Yeah, it's great to have you, and I'm excited to hear your journey and to share some of the things that you've been going through in the last couple of months with our listeners. But before we get into that, Jim, I'd love for you to tell us a little bit about you and your career journey leading up until this point. Well, that would probably be another podcast altogether. We can have two episodes.

Not begging for that, but my journey getting into the accounting and bookkeeping field is really quite unusual. I, I used to always ask people, you know, when I was first getting into the business, I used to call new business owners all day long, every day, because I figured, you know, that's the low-hanging fruit. They don't have an accounting relationship, they don't have a bookkeeper, I'll call them. They don't know whether I'm qualified or not, so that's a good fit. So, you know, we'll see if we can help each other. And I would always ask, you know, hey, what inspired you to start your new business? And, you know, it was a great conversation starter, but the reality was, you know, I didn't get started, there was nothing inspiring about my start. It was a story of desperation more than