Same for me, if I can get meds, silence, darkness and rest within the first 15min and for a full 2 hours I’m good.
If I cant take meds or if I have to keep working, then its a whole other story. Puking and crying.
Shameful, no. Negligent, yes.
First, I think it will be extremely hard to be successful since you have no ability in the type of service you will be offering. Your clients will want to make sure that the person handling the bookkeeping is reliable and knowledgeable. You will be outsourcing, meaning that there is no guarantee that the actual bookkeeper will stay. Theres is no way to guaranteeing the quality of your service if you have no idea what makes a good bookkeeper.
Most importantly, bookkeeping is no joke and there is high liability involved. Remember that if there is a screw up, you will be held responsible.
To answer your second question, service base business do not sell at a high value, that is because clients want to keep working with the same “person” not the same business. Unless you create a well known brand, then yes perhaps you can sell the goodwill, but don’t expect that high of a value.
If your strength is marketing and you believe that you can grow a business, why don’t you start a marketing company? Or become a consultant for various companies? Is there a reason why you are not going that route?
I have a real estate law firm. I left an in-house counsel job at a small construction company to go on my own as a sole practitioner in real estate law. I took a 50k line of credit, but I knew that the construction company would still send me their business and that I would make a small profit even without other clients, as long as I kept my expenses low. I did everything myself, no assistant for 6 months until it no longer made sense that I did the work myself. I hired a real estate who I had worked with in the past and who has 20 year + experience. She reached out to me because she liked the way I treated her when I was a law student and as a junior associate. A lot of clients were so used to dealing with her that they transferred their business to me. Within a year I was at about 70k revenue. I’ve hired part employees for a year and after I hired a second full time assistant. I made about 150k net that year. I currently have my two full time assistants, one part time employee and will most likely hire a second lawyer within the next 6 months. I’m on track to make 260k net this year though I am insure how hiring the second lawyer will impact my revenue for the next year. I will grow my practice in land development and have the second lawyer deal with regular real estate transactions.
I start with things I know how to do and apply myself to do them very well. I find it gives momentum to do other things and if I dont, well at least I’ve done something.
Ex: I will typically start my day by looking at the calendar for any already scheduled appointment for the next 1-2 days and make sure those files are reviewed thoroughly. The files are already halfway done so it doesn’t require that much energy. Very gratifying.
I’m not sure I understand the context or the information you are looking to receive from them.
If I were to respond to your question, I could have a few different answers :
1) I have a law firm specialized in land use and residential development. I started to work in real estate law once I became a law student by working in a small local law firm as a clerk. I further obtained more knowledge in real estate conveyance by completing an internship overseas for an anticorruption organization…I spend x amount of time working on daily tasks that are required on the daily to ensure diligent land conveyance transactions, x amount of time on building clients trust and relations, x on business administration, establishing progressive steps and implementing changes to the business to make it more financially lucrative. My business values are x, y, z, my short term goals are … etc.
Essentially giving you practical and concrete information as to what I have done and am doing as a “successful” person.
2) I try to work in a position or choose a business that is fulfilling for me and that I enjoy enough that I am willing to spend countless hours and make sacrifices without feeling like I’m missing on life but rather that I am feeling grateful for my knowledge, my grind and grateful that I am able to do this and still want to do it day after day after day. I have a long term vision and implement changes slowly and betting on my future as I believe that small decisions can have a snowball effect. I surrounded myself by people who had similar values as mine, etc.
I would go on as to general concepts that I believe has and is making me “successful”
In either cases, I could go on and on with details. I find that typically people are happy to share if the question is asked in an open way and with genuine curiosity and willingness to actively listen to what they are saying.
I have a few questions for you to help me understand : 1) are you looking for more practical answers or more general concepts? How are you formulating your question? In what setting? 2) are you generally good at active listening? Do you ask specific questions about what they are talking about or do you have a list of question in mind for which you believe having the answers may lead to success?
Attractive? I mean, she looks decent I think. I really didn’t pay attention. Do you find her attractive? More than me?? Should I be worried? (Jokingly)
I honestly never tried a kindle or remarkable tablet during my migraines but I can imagine that it would be better.
I try to avoid screens completely for the first two hours as any stimulation makes me nauseous. If I get a good two hours of complete darkness and silence and if my medication works, I can start looking at my phone but as little as possible. During my worst migraines, I am unable to look at screens for days. I am unable to read on the screen. Feels like when you look at a bright screen after being in total darkness first a while.
My migraines are not very often compared to others 2-3 migraines (cluster) every 3 months and now every 6-7 months. But they are terribly debilitating when they happened. I am completely disabled for 2hours and if I don’t get that total darkness/silence the first two hours it lasts days.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t work with every guy. I have the same problem as OP despite being with my boyfriend for over 15 years. One of my “guy friend” was actually my real estate agent and helped us find a house. It couldn’t have been more clear. He was also in a relationship. At some point his girlfriend got jealous and he mentioned it to me so I told him that he should talk to her and I completely backed off.
Since then, he has been so cold with me. I feel like he was hoping that we would entertain something together and once I told him to take care of his relationship and respect the boundaries that I thought he was setting he realized that I would not pursue anything with him. So I was no longer interesting for him. Very sad.
I try to convince myself that 10-20 years from now, everyone will look the same. Because those surgery are creating the same Kardashian-like face on every one. And maybe one day people will start to find “normal” faces more attractive because it will be so different from everyone else.
We baby talk but not to that extent. We have our own type of language that we use when we are in a playful mood to underline that we are joking, playful, happy. For us it involves adding a lot of “z” to words. “I’m going outsidezzzzz” “outsidezzz? Or zoutside?”
Its weird but that’s our thing I guess haha
Sorry to tell you that my 91 year old grandma is 100% lucid and is still sleeping “the next day”. It makes me so sad that she is still spending every single night trying to fall asleep.
Procrastination loop happens. I have accepted that I will not always be highly productive but that I will also not always be not productive. There’s ups and downs.
Structure: I have absolutely no obligation to start my workday at 7am. But I do, almost all the time. This is non negotiable for me except in special circumstances. Your structure might not look the same as mine, but fine something that works for you.
Self awareness: try to learn more about yourself. Recognize when you are in a procrastination loop and reflect as to the trigger. Is it because you are unmotivated? Distracted? Do you have a daunting task that you need to accomplish? Why does it feel daunting? Is it because you have the imposter syndrome? Or you just don’t know how to complete the task?
Vary the rhythm : some days I need reactive days where I get interrupted all the time, everything goes fast and I am not doing a lot of intentional work but I am solving problems. Other days I need to do proactive work without distraction. I’ve implemented “Ninja Days” in my schedule. These are days where my clients think I am off but I am working. My employees know that that I am working but they are instructed to act as if I wasn’t here. I get so much work done on these days! No appointments, no closings, no phone calls. I have them once or twice a month.
You got this! There’s so many options in law. Just don’t limit yourself to what you see on tv.
Fair enough. I also don’t think I could do sales, but mostly because of fear of rejection.
True! I am obsessed with learning and understanding things AND I am highly anxious and always imagine the best scenario. What’s my job? Lawyer (residential development). I truly feel like my unique traits are being used properly.
This is so important
Context is extremely important and one thing that is tricky is at 15 you may not see the overall picture because you don’t have sufficient experience yet in life.
But yes, there is some instances where its ok in my opinion. When I was your age, i was taking dance classes and at some point I became aid to the teachers. The teachers were between 25-30 years old and were acting like friends and big sisters to the dancers that were my age. With time, everyone stayed friends even if the age gap on the whole group is about 15 years.
When I look back, I can confirm that at no point there was anything inappropriate in those relationship. The teachers were so genuine and open. Some of the most beautiful people I know honestly. They helped me so much because I had no role model that I would relate to.
I guess the question you should ask yourself is why does that person is interested in spending time with you specifically. If you have even just a tiny doubt that it will serve there interest in some way, run!
We smoke a joint and we share new songs we’ve been listening to.
When you say the most absurd thing with an stoic face and the other person immediately plays along with absolutely no reaction and you entertain a absurd conversation as if it was totally normal.
It’s so hard to explain.
An app for fitness challenges (tricks). You would submit a trick and other people can try the same trick and submit their best attempt. You get points for doing the tricks and for submitting tricks that others can’t do.
Very niche but my husband and I play this game all the time and I wish there was a community.
What is one thing you would like to see invented that you don’t have time to invent, or an interest in inventing it
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