Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. So I've been working for a

service business for about, give or take six years back in 2010. I opened my own in about 2016,

you know, trying to expand my income.

Transitioned from a service company to a construction company.

And in the meantime, got married, built a family.

My question is as follows.

I have now just started calculating my budget and I figured out that I, um, either need

to address my personal income and expenses or change the, uh, business kind of model to, um,

to be able to match my personal income. Essentially, I'm paying myself from the business, to, um, to be able to match my personal income.

Essentially, I'm paying myself from the business, but not enough.

They're not matching up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So how much do you pay yourself from the business?

Well, I don't.

That's, that's the biggest problem.

I've been mixing personal and business expenses since I started being,

I didn't know anything about business.

I just knew what I was providing the service.

Now I'm looking now to separate the two and how much do I pay myself?

Do I pay myself what my personal budget is needing or do I pay myself what my business can

handle?

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