Lynda ArtesaniLegal Accountant and Data Migration Specialist at The Proper Trust

Plan Your Work, Work Your Plan! #legalaccounting #lawfirms #podcast #budgeting

1 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Lawyers who avoid their numbers until tax season miss chances to make changes. Reframe budgeting as planning, not drudgery. What gets measured gets done.

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I call it plan your work, work your plan. What gets measured gets done. To your point, Lynda, the icky budget word, I agree, but I like to bring that up and say budget and then watch the wincing and then go, okay, plan your work and work your plan. It's— that's what it's about. This is a gift to yourself. Embrace it, love it, and guess what? You're going to be really happy you did.
Because it forces you to look at it, right? Yeah. I think sometimes too, if you just put— because a lot of lawyers do this, they put their head down, They work really hard and they don't look at their numbers till January, February when you gotta get it ready for taxes. And by then it's too late. You can't really do a lot for the prior year.