{"id":1146,"date":"2025-06-06T19:42:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T19:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2025-06-06T19:46:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T19:46:32","slug":"business-risks-you-arent-thinking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/business-risks-you-arent-thinking-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Risks You Aren\u2019t Thinking About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but here are a few business risks you probably aren\u2019t thinking about and some potential solutions to avoid them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health Risk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re in your 20\u2019s or 30\u2019s you probably aren\u2019t thinking about health concerns, but for those in their 40\u2019s and above, it enters your mind more and more. If you experience a sudden health event, such as a heart attack, stroke or cancer, then your business will inevitably be impacted. Can you imagine suddenly being away from your business for weeks or months? If the thought is scary, then the outcome is even worse. A way to help minimize this risk is to maintain your health and seek the advice of very good healthcare practitioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shiny Object Syndrome<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As business owners, we all get very curious and excited about starting another business or offering a new service. It sounds great, but it\u2019s probably not a good idea unless done properly. The amount of time and resources to do so will detract significantly from your existing business and your profitability will suffer. The easiest way to avoid this is to strongly hesitate starting another business or adding a new service. Unless you have staff that can run your existing business, help with the new business or help implement a new service, then avoid doing this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Divorce Risk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although divorce enriches divorce attorneys, forensic accountants, and other divorce professionals, it will not do the same for your business. The time, focus, and resources spent on a divorce can and will negatively impact your business or what used to be your business. How can this be minimized? Try to predict the future and marry the right person (if that\u2019s possible)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but here are a few business risks you probably aren\u2019t thinking about and some potential solutions to avoid them: Health Risk If you\u2019re in your 20\u2019s or 30\u2019s you probably aren\u2019t thinking about health concerns, but for those in their 40\u2019s and above, it enters your mind more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,90,208,247,7,8,74,138],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-budgeting","7":"category-business","8":"category-debt","9":"category-economy","10":"category-employees","11":"category-expenses","12":"category-financial","13":"category-healthcare","14":"category-time-management","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}