Too much on your plate? Here’s what actually works

🏆 This Week’s Profit First Accountant Newsletter

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Hi everyone,

It’s Stephen Edwards from Gro Profit First Accountants, and welcome to this week’s Profit First Accountant Newsletter!

The problem: too much on your plate (the 80% trap)

Let’s be blunt.

Most owners aren’t short of ideas.

They’re drowning in them.

Another podcast. Another course. Another “strategy” thread.

The plate gets heavier, not better.

From being around literally hundreds of business owners, the pattern’s obvious:

• Blindspots — you can’t fix what you can’t see.

• Groundhog year — “in business less than 10 years,” but really it’s one year, ten times.

• Busy-fool behaviour — more consumption, less completion.

• No weekly ownership — good intentions die between Monday and Friday.

That’s why around 80% of owners are struggling to some extent.

It’s not a lack of information. It’s a lack of selection and follow‑through.

And here in 2025 we keep repeating the same drumbeat: less is more.

Fewer, better moves. On purpose. Built around your life.

If you can’t make the business work on paper, it won’t work in real life.

If the plan doesn’t fit your life first, you won’t keep doing it.

The solution:

The answer is not more ideas, more courses, more training “just because”.

In an age of endless information, more is noise.

The answer is ACCOUNTABILITY — and here’s what that really means:

• Fresh Clarity
  Say, in plain words, what you’re actually building and why. If you can’t explain it in a few lines, it isn’t clear.

• Tight Focus
  Pick the critical few and stop chasing the rest. Strategy first, then systems. (Profit First helps you stick to the plan, but it won’t fix a broken model.)

• Weekly Ownership
  Simple commitments. Time‑boxed actions. A quick scorecard for what matters.

• Tracking Key Projects

• Outside Eyes for Blindspots
  Someone to ask the hard questions you won’t ask yourself and to keep your ladder on the right wall.

• A Real Odds Boost
  With structured accountability, owners are almost twice as likely to hit their goals. Not theory—behaviour. IT’S NOT WHAT WE KNOW, IT’S WHAT WE DO THAT MATTERS.

Think of it like a gym buddy for your business: fewer exercises, done properly, consistently.

Less, but better. Consistently.

How we’ll help you in 2025 (and set you up for 2026)

1 - Business Planning Workshop — announcement this week

Build a simple life‑first plan on paper: clear outcomes, the next few moves, and what to stop doing.

• Clients: Free.

• Non‑clients: Join with a small investment.
  If it works on paper here, it will work in real life.

2 - Results Focused - Accountability Coaching
(Small‑Group) First intake for 2026 (very limited)

Monthly check‑ins with weekly accountability. Clear targets. Simple scorecard. Fast feedback, results-focused.

Less to‑dos—more focus, more time back, more clarity, and real follow‑through.

To maximise your chances of success of accountability coaching, you need a business plan first. You will need to either join the business plan workshop live or watch the recording to create your initial plan.

You WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE TO YOUR PLAN!

This is big boy stuff for ‘proper’ business owners' that are taking their business and their life seriously.

If you want your best year yet, this is how you stack the deck—almost doubling your chances of hitting what you set.

The accountability coaching will come with a pay-what-you-want guarantee. Which means if you didn't believe you've got value, you pay what you think it was worth!

Want in?

• For the workshop: watch your inbox in the next few days.

• For Accountability Coaching 2026: reply “ACCOUNTABILITY” and I’ll send details. Places are genuinely limited for this first cohort.

Ask yourself: What are you focusing on right now—and who’s holding you to it next week?

Until next time—keep putting Profit First (into a life‑first plan),

Stephen Edwards
Profit First Accountant & Business Coach
📧 [email protected]
Gro Profit First Accountants

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