05/19/2026
When you don’t take responsibility for
Your successes or your failures, you throw away the beauty of learning from both.
I was speaking with an intelligent business consultant turned bookkeeper/educator yesterday.
She said her first two bookkeeping clients were luck.
🤔 If you know me, you know I’m not a big believer in anything being completely attributed to luck.
There is often some spark of magic (a vibe) we can’t explain, so we call it luck. That’s fine, but explain the rest.
Not letting her off the hook, I asked her what she meant.
It turns out, those clients had a very clear path that she carefully constructed for them to come straight to her, for her talent, patience, and knowledge.
That’s not luck. That’s care, experience, and competence.
I told her to own it so she can repeat it.
My clients walk in with a “Hello it’s me, I’m the problem it’s me.” attitude.
They walk out with the understanding that they are both the problem and the solution,
They’ve just spent a lifetime only taking the responsibility for the first.
If you are looking at a stack of todos as tall as the Eiffel Tower and don’t know why you can’t begin
The answer is within you.
Maybe you need a mirror to help you pull out the map inside of you.
That’s what we do together. ❤️
