Budget
Summer has been rough on my wallet. It always is in my business, but this year was really bad. See, people go out of town and they don't have the decency to bring their trainers along with them. The nerve! As a result, in the last two and a half months I watched my savings drop from $2300 all the way down to $170. Ouch.
Oh well, the travel season is coming to a close, and all my clients' vacations will soon cease. I even had another newbie sign up today too. And not a moment too soon.
All this thinking about savings and whatnot made me realize I hadn't looked at my numbers in quite some time, so I thought I'd pull out the ol' Excel sheet I made and do some updating, and see how I'm doing.
I organized my spreadsheet into two sections; income and output. Under income I had listed each client with their average four week total. I laughed out loud when I saw names I hadn't seen in quite a while. Annie was gone the week before I moved in with my brother. Noah quit right before my birthday, and Angela hadn't trained with me since the end of 2007. It was definitely time to update!
I'm glad I did this. It gave me hope. Based on my current client load, and provided all the canceled sessions and out-of-town trips are over, and this new girl signs up for the rate I'm hoping, I will be making roughly double my monthly living expenses. Thank god. I plan on replenishing the savings accounts as fast as possible.
Not to mention the acting season begins to pick up soon too. Just in time. Picking up a couple of commercials here and there wouldn't hurt either.
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