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Assignment 01

Week 5 · Planning for Profitability

Acumen vs. Deficit Chart

Profitability starts with honest inventory. Map where you operate from sharpened business acumen and where a deficit is quietly draining the tank. Name it to manage it.

Your Strongest Acumen

Where do you already operate with skill, instinct, and confidence?

List the areas where your business judgment is sharpPricing, delivery, client selection, systems, marketing, finances… What evidence proves this is real strength, not wishful thinking?Results, feedback, repeatable wins…

Your Honest Deficits

Deficit isn't shame — it's data. Purpose often lives in the gap.

Where do you consistently feel out of your depth or avoidant?Be specific and kind to yourself here. Which deficits are skill gaps (learnable) vs. capacity gaps (need support or systems)?

Acumen / Deficit Snapshot

	Strength I lean on	Gap I must address
Money & pricing
Client boundaries
Delivery & operations
Marketing & visibility
Energy & capacity

The Bridge Plan

For each top deficit: will you learn it, automate it, delegate it, or release it?One decision per gap. The single deficit costing you the most profit right now What is the first concrete move to close that gap this week?

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Assignment 02

Week 3 · Cultivating a Profitable Mindset

Authority Reclamation Exercises

For anyone who has been over-controlled, told they had less authority than they did, or trained to shrink — this is where you reclaim the right to lead your own business.

Naming the Pattern

Where in your business do you still wait for permission you don't actually need? Whose voice plays when you hesitate to set a price, a limit, or a direction?Name the source — past authority, family, former boss, client.

Reclaiming the Seat

You are the adult and the owner. Both are true.

Complete each reclamation statement out loud, then in writing

In my business, I am allowed to…

I no longer need approval to…

A decision that is fully mine to make is…

I revoke the authority I once gave to…

The cost of waiting for permission has been…

Authority in Action

One decision you have been deferring that you will make this week — by yourself How will you respond the next time someone implies you have less authority than you do?Draft the line you'll actually use.

Reclaimed authority is exercised, not announced. Make the decision, then let the result be the evidence.

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Assignment 03

Week 5 · Planning for Profitability

Automation Setup Guide

Design protective systems so your boundaries run without you. Automation isn't about doing more — it's about defending your capacity by default.

Energy Audit

You can't automate what you haven't named.

Which repeated tasks drain you most each week?Scheduling, follow-ups, invoicing, onboarding, FAQs… Which of these require *you* specifically, and which only feel like they do?

The Automation Map

For each draining task, design the system that protects you

Booking & scheduling

Tool, buffer rules, what it prevents

Onboarding new clients

Welcome sequence, expectations, intake

Payments & invoicing

Deposits, due dates, late policy

Boundary reminders

Office hours, response-time auto-replies

Follow-up & nurture

Sequence, cadence, trigger

Offboarding & feedback

Wrap-up, testimonial, referral ask

Guardrails

Automation enforces the limit so you don't have to.

What boundary will each system enforce automatically?e.g. 'no booking inside 24 hours,' 'no work begins before deposit.' The one system you'll set up first What becomes possible with that time and energy back?

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