There is a reason that financial audits take place, right?

And there's a reason that they are always run by external accountants.

Because the people in the business, the internal accountants, in this case,

they have a tendency either consciously or unconsciously that they might

try and make themselves look good, right? Just do little adjustments. They're going to adjust some

numbers. They're going to round up some incoming revenue. Maybe they're going to round down

some expenses. They're going to move some costs to the next quarter. They're going to forecast

some payments that might happen in the future as if they're going to happen 100%.

And you add all these little adjustments together and things start to look pretty good.

Things start to look pretty good. And at a minimum, they look better than they really are.

At a minimum. And that leads to problems. That leads to problems. Little problems at first,

but big problems in the end. If they go unchecked, if they go unchecked, we're talking about bankruptcy

and foreclosure and insolvency. So that's what happens in a company.

But this can happen with us as well in our heads. We make little adjustments in the way we report

things to ourselves. That's what we do. I mean, I'm in pretty good shape.

I'm not drinking that much. My financials are good. I don't waste too much time. I don't really

need to train today. My husband or my wife or my spouse or my kids, they won't mind just this once.

That's what we do. Little lies. Little adjustments to the truth.

Just to get by. Just to just to make ourselves feel a little bit better today. Just so we look good

to ourselves. But just like a lying accountant. And by the way, the lying accountant

has good intentions, right? They're not a bad person. They just want the company to look good.

They want the company to feel good. But by trying to make the company look good and trying to make

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