Do Your Show Your Shoebox Love

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By Tiffany Keeping

I find how you do one part of your life is how you do all parts of your life so I implore you to think deeply on this. Do you do one thing a day to show yourself love? If you can’t show yourself love once a day then how will you show your finances and business love.

As I sat down to write this month’s article (a little late if I’m really honest), I contemplated on love and the many ways that we experience or show love to ourselves and others every single day. There are so many little ways we, as humans, show love. We give someone that extra hug or make their favourite dinner or send them a text when we are thinking of them.

Do You Show Your Shoebox Love?

“ We are great at bestowing love on others but a great many of us aren’t that good at showing ourselves the same amount of love.”

Self-love can take many forms from choosing to eat healthy food, to exercising daily, to filing our taxes every year on time, to organizing our receipts and knowing the numbers in our business (I spoke of this in my previous article.)

I contemplated self-love this month because I found I was not showing it to myself often. I was overworking and not taking time to do the things that bring me joy with the people who love me and whom I love. When we choose to not show ourselves love we suffer and those around us suffer because we are not our full bright selves. Loving yourself

is a choice that you make every day. Showing love to your business is a choice you make every day.

“Personally, I struggle with balancing all my obligations in my life and in doing so I usually put myself and my needs last.”

I’m working on changing that priority list because if I don’t take care of myself then I’m not helpful to anyone... not my family, not my friends and definitely not my clients. This year I made a commitment to myself to start by loving myself first and putting myself first! Only in doing these things would I feel happy and therefore be my most successful. In being happy I can spread that energy to everyone and everything that I touch. I decided to hire help to start taking things off my “to do” list in my business. In doing so it affords me more time to focus on the things that I love to do and the things I need to do on a daily basis. I find within a business there tends to be three things people allow to fall by the way side usually because they don’t have the time or they don’t make the time to do them such as bookkeeping or administration work. This is how the shoe box full of receipts starts with someone pushing off the task and never having time or making the time to organize and enter their bookkeeping. In our personal lives we tend to let our nutrition or exercise slide because we don’t have time or don’t make the time to do them.

“My advice if you don’t have time or inclination to do such tasks please consider outsourcing them.”

If you don’t have time to do your bookkeeping then hire a qualified bookkeeper such as myself. If you don’t have time to do your administration work then hire a virtual EA. If you don’t have time to take care of your nutrition then hire someone to meal plan and/or prep for you. If you don’t have time to exercise then hire a trainer to kick your butt. You have no idea the weight that will be lifted off your shoulders when you have someone take care of these tasks for you. Show yourself and your business some love and start outsourcing the tasks that you can’t take care of starting today.

“Are you ready to show yourself and your shoe box some love? “

One that works for you and that is less stress and costly than last year. Call me today at (780) 264-0860 or book at consultation here and let’s see how I can help you create love for your shoebox!

Tiffany Keeping

Awen Bookkeeping Connect with me here