Self-Reliance
7: Commit


“Keeping Separate My Business and Personal Money: Commit,” Starting and Growing My Business for Self-Reliance (2017)

“Keeping Separate My Business and Personal Money: Commit”

Commit

Maximum Time: 5 Minutes

Read each of the commitments below with your action partner. Your ability to succeed in starting or growing your business will dramatically improve as you diligently keep your weekly commitments. Promise to keep your commitments and then sign below.

My Commitments

A. I will keep the “My Foundation” commitments for this week:

  • Choose a problem I am facing.

  • Apply these steps to my problem: (1) Identify; (2) Study options; (3) Decide and act.

  • Share what I’ve learned about solving problems with my family or friends.

B. I will pay myself a salary or wage and keep my business money in a separate account from my personal money.

C. I will keep separate records for my business and personal money.

D. I will review my “Ponder” page and keep the commitments.

E. I will contact and support my action partner.

Remember that next week, you will be asked to report the number of days that you talked with customers, wrote in your business notebook, sold, and recorded financial details (see the “Evaluating My Efforts” chart in the beginning of the book).

My signature

Action partner’s signature

Have a closing prayer.