Create the financial plan. The financial plan is the culmination of all your earlier information gathering, thinking, and planning. E valuate and revise the plan. If you begin to notice that a certain aspect of a plan is not working or needs some adjustment, change it. The beauty of a flexible plan is that it can be revised to better reflect the reality of your specific situation and to help you get to your desired outcome.
Planning is an ongoing process.
Even though you will initially feel that you're stealing from yourself to pay for even a part-time paralegal, if you hire carefully and clearly organize this new person's job description, within a year you won't notice the outgoing salary. A paralegal, filing clerk, bookkeeper, go-fer, even a management consultant can do some of the paperwork and other tasks that will allow you to do more of the client or marketing work without running up against the danger of not properly addressing the needs of your clients. The idea is that the extra business you'll bring in will more than pay for the added salary, in addition to reducing your stress level.