I'm already seeing "grounded expansion" in my business!!

My phrase for 2026 is Grounded Expansion, and I had a real-life moment recently that showed me exactly what that looks like in practice.

As I was pulling together reports, I realized I was missing several receipts. My first thought was, This is going to take forever. My second thought was, I should just hire someone to do my books, even though I am fully capable.

Then I paused.

Instead of pushing through while frazzled, I walked away. I decided not to solve the problem from a stressed place.

Later, with a calmer mind, I remembered that before my recent trip I had downloaded a free trial of a receipt-management tool I had come across. I opened it up, and within minutes it pulled receipts directly from my email and synced them into QuickBooks.

What I was convinced would take months took less than a couple of hours.

Not because I worked harder, but because I worked smarter, from a regulated place, and with the right support.

It also cost a fraction of what outsourcing would have, my reports are now clean and complete, and we are positioned to get our taxes done early this year.

That, to me, is grounded expansion: