What I'm Learning 12/10/21
Blake Carroll, CPA
PwC People Team - Manager | Helping Aspiring CPAs Navigate the CPA Exam with Confidence
Happy Friday everyone! Here are some interesting topics to learn more about as we head into the weekend. The links talk about how to prevent burnout, turning a passion into profit, setting small goals to help achieve your big goals, lessons on the dangers of credit card debt, and how to manage your calendar. I hope it's helpful!
This is a quick and easy read for some ways to prevent burnout before it even happens, which is so much better and easier than trying to fix it once it has happened. A lot of it is simply just building more self-care and personal optimization into your work and your day. We have to feel confident in exercising more control and agency around our day to day work. If you don't control it then others will control it for you.
Work is easier when it involves people, ideas, and tasks that you care about. You are a better performer at the things that you enjoy because it is fun improving at them. That’s just a fact. If you have an entrepreneurial itch this article has steps that could help you generate ideas on how you can turn your interest and passions into a business. I believe everyone should at least try to work for themselves on something that really fires them up. It doesn't have to be your main job, we all know how much side gigs have grown recently!
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This article is a simple and easy example of how to break down a larger goal into smaller every day goals. A huge goal can be so intimidating that we don’t even start, but once we break it down into more achievable concrete steps that we can take regularly it becomes much easier to get on the path to the big goal.?Small consistent action compounded over time is where results happen. Just focus on the next small step.
Our consumer society presents debt as a very normal thing, but that is not always the case depending on what type of debt it is. This article breaks down how much debt like credit cards is really costing you both in real terms and opportunity cost. It’s a great lesson in compounding and its effect over time
Carl shares his experience in using scheduling things in his calendar to increase their productivity and actually accomplish their goals for the year. Often we have many things we want to do one day but until we actually get them scheduled into our calendar one day keeps getting pushed off into never actually going to happen.