{"id":2939,"date":"2014-08-10T22:44:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T02:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2014-08-10T22:44:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T02:44:23","slug":"budget-paralysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2014\/08\/10\/budget-paralysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Paralysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t do a budget because I don&#8217;t have the Cash Flow!&#8221; is the lament I hear <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2940 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/budget-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"budget\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>regularly when I try to help business owners develop a budget to achieve their business goals.<\/p>\n<p>Believe me you can do it, as one purpose of a budget is to benchmark the business&#8217;s spending. You may not have the cash flow to fund all your goals today, but experience has shown me that without the budget, the goals are just wishes.<\/p>\n<p>Budgeting is a tool to compare what you <em>thought<\/em> you would spend with what you <strong><em>did<\/em> <\/strong>spend.\u00a0 That is why it will always works.\u00a0 When you are stuck with the fear of doing the budget at all; sometimes just getting a number, any number, down on paper will get you thinking.\u00a0 Think of a budget as the accountability partner to your personal or business spending.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing what you spent compared to what you planned to spend or thought you spent are the fastest ways to a healthy cash flow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t do a budget because I don&#8217;t have the Cash Flow!&#8221; is the lament I hear regularly when I try to help business owners develop a budget to achieve their business goals. Believe me you can do it, as one purpose of a budget is to benchmark the business&#8217;s spending. You may not have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-improvement","category-financial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}