April - The Month of Big Intentions, Admin Purgatory, & Spreadsheet Sorcery.

The new tax year starts.

You swear you'll be better this time.

Accounts will be updated weekly.

Budgets will be strict.

This will be your year for a more streamlined tax system.

Structure.

Strategy.

You last exactly nine days.

You’ve also hyper-focused and launched fifteen new projects all at once, half-written five business expansion proposals, and opened a(nother) new spreadsheet called “2025 Business Masterplan - FINAL FINAL ACTUAL FINAL EDIT (pt.7).”

Delusions of the Month:

•  I’ll just pop my receipts in this carefully labelled folder. (They end up in the glovebox.)

•  I’ll post once a day in April! (You post four times in 48 hours, then randomly upload from there on in.)

•  I’ll schedule a whole email campaign. (You send it. It has a teeny tiny typo. You spiral.)

•  I’ll just set a medium-range ad budget. (Facebook laughs in algorithm.)

•  I definitely saved the updated insurance terms and conditions. (PC laughs in search bar silence)

•  I don’t need to take on more work this month. (But you still do.)

You May Experience:

•  An obsession with new photo-editing software.

•  Random budget spreadsheets appearing in your dreams.

•  Late-night pricing and budget panic.

•  Getting excited about new website builder tools.

Power Survival Tools:

•  A good notebook and a four-colour pen.

•  Strong coffee.

•  A folder called “To-Do”.

•  A back-up ritual involving incense and repeated logging into your accounts software.

Boss Lady Wisdom:

You can’t budget your way out of April accounts chaos, but you can colour-code it.

Boss Lady - Lara Gothique

Founder, Curator, Choreographer, Swamp-Witch, and Slightly Feral Producer of The Velvet Burlesque™

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