📊 An Honest Accounting, Part Three
Taking stock via updated balance sheet for the biz
To wrap this series on failures to launch, let’s zoom out to consider the broader business picture. Now if only the IRS would accept this format for official documents 😆1
What did I miss?
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If you haven’t already, check out Part One and Part Two of this series. + Big thanks to my longtime business bestie Elisa Doucette who helped spruce up this post! She offers editing services for Substack and beyond at Craft Your Content if you’re ever in need :)
An Honest Accounting, Part One
Four years ago this month, a storied American retailer reached out cold through a contact form on my website, asking if they could license the Pivot workbook. They wanted to distribute it as a career development resource for full-time employees. Why yes, you can!
An Honest Accounting, Part Two
If you haven’t already, read part one first: “Never give leverage away for free,” says Jeb Blount, author of Inked. With this in mind, in exchange for speedy signing and upfront payment, I agreed to a fifty percent price cut for the Pivot workbook licensing proposal with a notable client.
Assets: creative thinker, willing to be transparent, naturally empathic and caring, magnetic and energizing especially when speaking, good design sense, spiritually alert, super organizer, draws the best out of people, using collapse as a fun teaching topic, good with dogs.
Liabilities: caving in to deprivation thinking, not quite getting the huge benefits of liminal space, not taking mind entirely off business for at least 10 full minutes—to see what else is there. ;-D <3
You have built such an ecosystem of fans... maybe you’ll create the “goodwill” line on the assets side :) with the offset retained equity!