My top priority for today was finishing the data entry for our income tax return. I had intended to work more on it last Saturday, but let myself be pulled into recording a meditation for my yoga website and figuring out how to modify my site and load the audio file. I'm glad I did that, as it moves me along with my yoga teaching goals, but it also made it even more important to finish the taxes this weekend, as I'll be busier for the next two, and then the taxes are due.
This year I had additional complexity with my yoga income and expenses, I also had some investment information to enter, and that often leads to some frustration as I hunt for some piece of information that isn't available on the statements, or face a question from the tax software that I don't fully understand.
Overlaying all this detail is the fact that I never know how long it will take, or whether I'll get part way through and get stuck. These uncertainties are often the root of my not wanting to sit down and start. Doing the taxes seems hard.
Sitting at the table after breakfast, finishing my coffee, the thought occurred to me that there's nothing about the taxes that is hard. It only seems hard because I'm looking at it as a single thing. But it's really a lot of small things, and none of them are particularly hard. Looking something up, creating a little spreadsheet to total some numbers, entering data into the forms. Broken down into small enough steps, each step is easy.
And so, a few hours later, I was done. I had to take a few detours and work on some pieces before I could enter them, but it wasn't hard. I chose to let it be easy.
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