EP309: Lora Lonesberry - How To Efficiently Run Your Bookkeeping Business - Part 2

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Lora Lonesberry (July 19): Welcome back to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is the finale of a two-part series with Laura Lonesbury. In part one, she covered things like the importance of learning from others, building efficiencies in your business, and the power of having a niche. Let's find out what other insights she has. Here's part two of our conversation. I was just thinking of this the other day because, you know, it's often, it's something that comes up often, right? Because we have a standard best practice way of doing things. That's our whole life. That's everything that we're working on and developing and constantly working with is one, helping business owners like you have a system that is that one way. And there's thousands of ways to do it and there's thousands of people that are involved in it that have great ideas and you could do it a million ways. In fact,— it is the case. There's another line from Debbie is if you have 10 bookkeepers do a set of books, you'll have 11 different versions. Absolutely. So the challenge is it just comes back to the— it's a very simple answer. It's like decide on the system and stick to the system. And if you waver from the system, you kind of just putting, you know, a wrench in your own gears or flattening your own tire because you don't have a unique, sorry, a standard and generic way of doing it. And many people say, oh, like, where's the art in it? And where's the freedom and all of these good things? It's like, well, it's a mirage to think that having choice is freedom because freedom comes, as you've experienced, freedom comes from committing to doing it a particular way and having everyone do it a particular way is what gives you freedom.

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