I have been very busy lately working with clients, and that gives me the perfect excuse to not be working on my taxes. But over the last couple of days, crunch time, it is time I looked the books straight in the eye, and get it done.
I'd like to thing I'm pretty organized, but the realty is that priority items take precedence, and the fine tune item of organizing the financial entry's falls to the way side. The minimum gets entered into quicken, enough to notice that yes all the bills have gotten paid, and because everything seems to working, I just keep trucking along.
Then the calendar flips to a new year, and I start thinking "I need to get focused and fine tune quicken so my Tax Accountant does ask me to go elsewhere". A few weeks pass, nothing gets touch, a few more weeks go by, and now I'm really starting to really think about it. I even call up my Tax Accountant and set up an appointment, thinking that will get me moving and get it done. This year my business really did pick up, and of course I'm going to choose to be with clients over taxes. So, a few more weeks go by, and then I end up calling to reschedule the appointment. Ok, my appointment is next Thursday, and I'm not rebooking it for a third time!
So the last couple of days, I've been going through the transactions. Entering them into quicken, categorizing them, and really looking at them. Because this all comes at once, entering things month after month, I really have no choice to but put some good thought into where my money is really going! It is scary, actually, and yes, I did sign up for a couple of things last year, that I shouldn't have! Lesson be learned, stop doing that, It is costing a lot of money!
Tomorrow, one of the first things I'm going to do, is to make a couple of phone calls, and cancel the subscriptions! Also, I need to remember, DO NOT sign up for any other "you gotta have it to increase your real estate business schemes". Ok, I think I get it, at least for the next little bit...
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