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The Simplify Day

John Vance
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Year
2026
Language
English

About

Running a business was supposed to give you freedom. Instead, most days disappear into a blur of decisions, fires to put out, and a to-do list that never gets shorter.

You are managing everything, coordinating the team, piecing together advice from every direction, and somehow the strategic thinking that would actually move things forward keeps getting pushed to "later."

John Vance has lived this. He launched his firm at twenty-eight, one month before his first daughter was born, and built it from scratch into a practice managing nearly a billion dollars in assets. Along the way, he discovered that success creates its own kind of complexity, and that working harder is not the way through it. What changed everything for him was a simple monthly habit he calls the Simplify Day.

Instead of the usual once-a-year goal setting that fades by February, the Simplify Day gives business owners a dedicated checkpoint every month to step out of reactive mode and into intentional planning. In these pages, John walks you through the full framework: how to set up your own Simplify Day, how to use strategies like the Augusta Rule to keep more of what you earn, why a lifetime approach to taxes beats chasing this year's bill, and what it means to become the financial quarterback of your own business rather than just its hardest worker.

This is not a theory. It is a practical system built by someone who has sat in your chair, written for entrepreneurs who want to stop operating their business and start leading it. The shifts you make are small. Their effect, compounded month after month, is anything but.

If you are ready to create space for the work that matters and build the next five years to look very different from the last five, the Simplify Day is where it starts.

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