{"id":11623,"date":"2019-09-10T03:10:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T09:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=11623"},"modified":"2019-09-10T03:13:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T09:13:54","slug":"just-when-you-thought-you-had-things-under-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/just-when-you-thought-you-had-things-under-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Just When You Thought You Had Things Under Control"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As I shared in yesterdays\nblog, last week was nuts for me with my big University board conference I was in\ncharge of.  By the time the weekend came I\nwas completely exhausted but was feeling super relieved that the conference was\ndone and I\u2019d get to focus on catching up on all the other stuff I\u2019d fallen\nbehind on while preparing the confernece. I woke up today feeling great that I would\nfinally start getting things under control again\u2026only to find out that my taxes\nare due the end of this week!  Here I\u2019d\nbeen thinking I had an entire month more to get them ready, but I\u2019d forgotten\nthe LLC tax filing date was moved up a month! \nYIKES!!!!!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isn\u2019t it so often the case\nthat just when yout think you have things under control\u2026.WHAP!!! Something else\nhits you in the face and you find yourself scrambling to get up again\u2026.  And all you can do is try to laugh at how ridiculous\nlife can be sometimes and then take a deep breath and dive in to get it done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got a brief laugh today\nwhen my friend sent me a meme to lift my spirits that read:   \u201cI wonder\u2026can I claim all the voices in my\nhead as taxable dependants?\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another thing that made me\nchuckle today was remembering back to when I was a kid and my siblings and I\nwould do everything we could to avoid my Dad when tax season came around because\nhe was so grumpy when he had to work on them. He\u2019d sit at his desk up on the\nbalcony overlooking our family room and we\u2019d all tiptoe through the room below\nas quietly as possible so we \u201cwouldn\u2019t awake the beast\u201d as we\u2019d teasingly refer\nto him at tax time.  And now I\u2019m sitting\nhere working on my taxes thinking \u201cI feel ya Dad\u2026I feel ya\u2026\u201d  And I\u2019d give about anything right now to go\nback to being that dependant on my parents tax form so \u201cthe beast\u201d could handle\nthe taxes and I could go back to tiptoeing through to the room to go play with\nmy Fisher Price toys with my siblings\u2026those were days\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There may not be crying in baseball but I\u2019m fairly certain no one will blame you for crying in tax season. You bet your booty I\u2019ll be crying this week as I scramble to get all my tax stuff done and I’m still awake at 3:00am working on them. It looks like my dream of getting my life back under control is going to have to wait another week…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All you can do is laugh at how ridiculous life is, take a deep breath, then dive in and get it done\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201cWhat Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business & Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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