u/Diligent-Mycologist6

How did you gain the confidence to price yourself correctly? I feel like

1. I use a lot of passive language that makes me seem h sure
2. I downplay what needs to be done

In doing both of these things I feel like I’m not committing as well as I’m telling the person “ DO NOT BIY FROM ME”. Even though I have 7 years experience in the field I’m in. I feel like I have a hard block on actually committing to doing my own thing, and it’s all in my head.

How did you as a business owner overcome this? How did you tell yourself to stop being scared and actually just say “ yea this is 400-600” and be confident to charge your prices?

I can name the issues I’m having but having a hard time overcoming this thought process and just feel stuck. Like I feel like if I make just one sale 100%, my block will be gone but my brain is so focused on making sure I sabotage that chance?

Context. I work with my family. My initial scope was to do book keeping work. I have been there for 5 years.

Currently I work with my family, and I have been with them for 5 years. What started as doing book keeping and helping do payroll has now spiraled into several deviations and I am going insane. I now do customer service, I do IT work, I do manual labor, and I still do the accounting work as well as operations for 50 of our stores. Our accountant has literally been getting paid his full check of a quarter of a fucking mill for the last two years but has checked out where we do 70 percent of his workload on top of everything else.

I’m at my wits end. On top of this, our accountant is extremely rude and disrespectful. He talks down to me, refuses to take on his scope of work. And instead of working with my my family is making me feel like shit. Writing this out I know he’s not to blame entirely, and my family is taking advantage of me, but does anyone know what I can do to move forward. I want to get another job but for some reason I feel afraid I can’t get another one. I want to move forward but feel stuck and feel like I’ll disappoint someone even though Im fully grown and have my own family 😂. To be honest I was not even mad about the workload, but these last two years of dealing with out accountants disrespect and the lack of my family stepping in even though I’ve had repeated conversation has really thrown me over the edge. Recently I was looking at our payroll and genuinely my pay is laughable compared to the amount of work I’m doing. How am I doing the workload for multiple stores, and getting paid a third of what they are getting?

I don’t know how to mentally get over this block that I won’t succeed somewhere else.

It’s a little all over the place I apologize.