06/04/2026
Confession time: In my first year of business, I spent every dollar I had set aside for taxes.
Yep. The bookkeeper who tells everyone not to do that… did exactly that.
At the time, I looked at the money sitting in my account and thought, “What’s the point of it just sitting there?”
The problem is that when it’s your money, it’s emotional.
I know I’m not alone.
I see it all the time
Complete avoidance
Micromanaging every dollar
Sabotaging your own growth by spending it all
Every financial decision has a story attached to it.
Looking back now, it’s easy to see what I didn’t see then.
But I don’t judge that version of me.
I understand her.
She was building something from nothing and trying to make sense of numbers that suddenly mattered a lot more than they ever had before.
And that’s the part people don’t talk about enough.
How personal money feels when it’s tied to your survival, your effort, your identity as an entrepreneur.
Most of the mistakes I see now aren’t math problems.
They’re emotional decisions wearing financial clothes.
