what s wrong and what s wrong is we humans are not logical. we are behaviorroll. noshl mall. what comes last gets ignored. old accounting, sales expenses saying profit. profit is last. wait until the end of the year and say i didn t make it this time maybe next time, but with sales minus profit equals expenses that s what i m suggesting. take your profit first. you assure profitability. i get it. okay. that s your point put profit first. basically say this is how much i want to make now i better make all of my expenses fit here. right. you actually have to reverse engineer your profitability. use the envelope system. i suspect that helps you on this. it was the old envelope system. my mother actually when she would get a check. cash it in put a portion into food, mort and so fo would go to food store, use the food envelope and tre was always enough money.