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Ordinary Magic
I have a theory. It’s about procrastinating. For me, it is doing our tax prep for this year. Long before now is when I start my reconciliations, so I’ve got going back to last January. All I’m doing is reconciling bank and credit card statements and classifying stuff. We break our stuff up into personal and business expenses. The business expenses we can claim on our taxes. There is likely a limit, but I just sort through them and give the number to our tax lady. Filling out her 23-page questionnaire makes things easier for whoever is inputting the information on her end. We normally get refunds, so that’s always nice, though, as the years have gone on, those refunds have been shrinking. Either somebody new is doing our inputting, or the laws are changing.
That’s all irrelevant to the thought I just had.
Generally, I believe it is some sort of fear that leads to procrastination. You just don’t want to do it. As an adult, you can ask yourself why. With me, I would say, “I hate taxes”. Period. Nothing more needs to be said, but as I felt the usual grief well up in my heart just now as I thought about the big job I’ve got coming up, I did happen to wonder why.
That took about a minute to answer. It’s because we don’t have any money, and every year we go deeper and deeper into debt. Sure, I’d like to be debt-free, but so do a lot of other people. I keep busy every day…
