The Preloaded Year
A simple planning tool to help Aussie tradies take control of their time, money and life before the year runs away from them.
Plan your year properly, before it plans you
The Preloaded Year is a practical planning tool built for trade business owners who want more control, less stress, and a clear run at the year ahead.
If you’re like most tradies, the year starts fast and never really slows down. Jobs stack up.
Weeks blur together.
Family time, holidays, training, and planning all get pushed to “later”. Before you know it, another year’s gone and you’re still flat out, still chasing cash flow, and still reacting instead of leading.
The Preloaded Year helps you change that.
This isn’t a diary or a fluffy goal-setting exercise. It’s a clear, structured way to map out your life and business first, so your year actually supports the lifestyle you’re working so hard for.
Inside The Preloaded Year, you’ll work through:
✅ Your non-negotiables like family time, holidays, routines and health.
✅ The big rocks that matter most in your personal life.
✅ Business revenue targets, busy and slow months, and red-flag expense periods.
✅ Team planning, training, leadership and key business commitments.
✅ A full 12-month visual snapshot so you can see the year at a glanceIt’s designed to help you stop reacting week to week and start making better decisions with clarity and confidence.
It’s designed to help you stop reacting week to week and start making better decisions with clarity and confidence.
This tool is for tradies who are busy, capable, and working hard but know something’s missing. More control. More intention. More breathing room. It’s simple. It’s practical. And it works best when you sit down once and actually think ahead.
Download The Preloaded Year and give yourself a proper plan before the year takes over.
ANDY & ANGELA SMITH
We’re Andy and Angela Smith, co-founders of Lifestyle Tradie, the hosts of ‘The Tradie Show’ podcast and founders of Dr. DRiP Plumbing, which we owned and operated for over 20 years. Since 2009, we’ve been teaching tradies in business how to start up, scale up and sell up using a proven step-by-step formula we created after hitting rock bottom in business ourselves. We climbed out the hard way, learning our biggest lessons through expensive trial and error.
Think back to why you became a trade business owner in the first place. Is it working out the way you thought it would? Most tradies have aspirations to be their own boss one day. Here’s the thing: TAFE only taught you the rules and regulations. Your first boss only taught you how to swing a hammer. You’ve never been taught how to become a business owner, have you? That’s where our online training can help.
Our lives were in complete chaos. Now, Andy is completely off the tools. Want to get your life back, too? Fast forward your journey and get on a call with us now.