Episode 20: Are Your Goals Aligned? (Business + Personal + Financial)
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Episode Overview
Business owners spend a lot of time thinking about where their companies are going. Revenue, profitability, new clients, hiring, systems, and expansion all demand attention. But there's another question that's easy to overlook: Is the business you're building still aligned with the life you want?
In Episode 20 of R Readiness Lens, Are Your Goals Aligned? (Business + Personal + Financial), Sheri Radler steps outside the business itself to examine three interconnected areas of readiness: business, personal, and financial. Rather than treating them as separate plans, Sheri explains why they all compete for the same limited resources, including your time, energy, attention, and money.
Sheri explores what misalignment can look like in real life, from a growing business that consumes more and more of the owner's time to a successful owner relying too heavily on the business for retirement. She also looks at what happens when an owner builds a successful company only to realize that the role they've created for themselves no longer matches the reason they started the business in the first place.
This episode is about creating clarity around what you actually want and using that clarity to make better decisions today. Sheri walks through a practical framework for identifying the gaps between where you are and where you want to go, addressing immediate pain points, and building a business and financial plan that supports the life you're working toward.
Key Takeaways
Why business, personal, and financial goals need to work together
Building a business that gives you choices instead of another job
Recognizing when business growth is being purchased with the owner's time
Why your business shouldn't be your entire retirement plan
Identifying the warning signs of business and personal misalignment
Why work-life balance is often a series of intentional trade-offs
Starting today instead of regretting what you didn't do years ago
Using a discover, prepare, and decide framework to create a path forward
Turning long-term goals into actionable 90-day priorities
Creating more options for your business, finances, and future
Timestamps
00:00 – Welcome to R Readiness Lens
00:44 – Is your business still aligned with the life you want?
02:43 – Connecting your business, personal, and financial goals
04:58 – Is your business giving you choices or keeping you trapped?
07:22 – Envisioning the life you actually want
09:21 – Financial readiness and funding your future
11:25 – Why perfect work-life balance doesn't exist
13:26 – When business growth comes at the owner's expense
15:50 – The risk of making your business your entire retirement plan
17:10 – What happens when you outgrow the business you built?
19:20 – Warning signs that your goals are becoming misaligned
21:27 – How owners create their own dependency on the business
23:01 – Why it's not too late to start making changes
25:18 – Giving your business changes time to compound
27:05 – Discover, prepare, and decide
29:24 – Identifying the biggest pain point in your business
31:49 – Using 90-day priorities to create meaningful change
34:09 – Mapping your personal, business, and financial goals
36:32 – Facing the questions you've been avoiding
38:49 – Why clarity today creates options tomorrow
41:08 – Closing thoughts
Mentioned Resources
R Accounting Group — Advisory support, resources, and systems for business owners ready to scale with intention.
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Connect with Sheri on LinkedIn
Exit Planning Institute — Learn more about the Exit Planning Institute and its resources for business owners and advisors
What is next
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