Mike Michalowicz

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1,537 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 20 Feb

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And I'll get one every minute or so is on tax day.

So in the U S April 15th, it's

unbelievable how many people say, I just paid my taxes.

My business has paid my taxes for me.

I'm so excited.

I thought people would be so excited about profitability and they are, but never having to worry about taxes again.

And that bill that can just shock you having your business already accounted for it seems to be like the biggest relief for people.

Yeah.

The biggest benefit of constrained spending, working within your means, is it brings about natural innovation.

We talked about Parkinson's law.

There's this hidden, well, he revealed it, but this hidden secret of Parkinson's law.

As a resource increases, he says, the more supply of something, the more we consume.

So if you put more food in front of me, more cookies, I eat more cookies.

But what's interesting, he says, as you constrain a supply, we start changing our behavior around it.

So if you only put one cookie in front of me,

I'll break off a corner.

I'll stretch it out a little bit.

When we have less of something, we become very innovative.

We think of new ways of utilizing it.

So by constraining the spend in our business, we become more innovative.

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