Less than 7 full days left to tax deadline...

[Kathi_at_Intuit]

How do you de-stress during this time? Is there any work/life balance, or is it all back to the grind for me?

Here's a post from one of our All Stars @IRonMaN :

https://accountants-community.intuit.com/questions/1819069-it-s-friday-only-3-days-left-in-the-work-...

I am taking his advice and taking a break to smile.

[dkh]

I use lots of chocolate to help cope with these last days.   3 tax returns dropped off today.  What are these people thinking!

[IRonMaN]

They are thinking that they are your only clients :smile:

[dkh]

I actually had a client comment I didn't "look" stressed this year.........must've been a good hair day.

[IRonMaN]

My favorite line from clients is "you must be really busy" ----------------- and then they pitch a tent and start a campfire so they can't sit and BS.

[IntuitCharlene]

Stressed is just Desserts spelled backwards....good thing my co-worker (cough @Kathi_at_Intuit ) has been on a baking spree and made a Rice Crispy Treat cake yesterday. That had enough sugar for the whole week.

[Kathi_at_Intuit]

@dkh I love chocolate! I am a dark chocolate person... good hair day, we all have those don't we?? @Charlene_At_Intuit is right it was a sugar bomb and I am glad that I did not eat any.

[Kathi_at_Intuit]

@IRonMaN but I love camping

[dkh]

@Kathi_at_Intuit   Hershey's dark chocolate with almonds.  Tax season main food group.

[dkh]

@IRonMaN   I keep my cellphone close so I can call my landline when the glampers settle in.   Saved by the bell.

[IRonMaN]

Good plan with the phone, but if you are going with dark chocolate, you have to go with Dove.

[sjrcpa]

New client dropped off her signed efile forms today along with a box of Godiva chocolate. I love her!

[Kathi_at_Intuit]

@dkh so is it the old, chocolate comes from cocoa, which is a tree, that makes it a plant. chocolate is a salad. Eat more chocolate.

[dkh]

@Kathi_at_Intuit   love that - never thought of it that way.  I eat salad every day.

[Just-Lisa-Now-]

I ate a whole box of Sees candy over the weekend  Ugh!

[Kathi_at_Intuit]

@sjrcpa that is awesome!

[Kathi_at_Intuit]

@dkh yum! @Just £isa Now! love Sees, I could eat a whole box too!

[IRonMaN · Accepted solution]

The key to destressing is not getting stressed to begin with.  Once I find out how to do that, I will be back with another post 🙂

[IntuitAustin]

I find that running* helps my anxiety.. It really helps to take the stress of the day off my mind






* = running to Chick-Fil-A in my car

[IRonMaN]

Sounds like a good run to me.

[Kathi_at_Intuit]

@Intuit Austin I knew something was up, it is not time for the gym yet!

[garman22]

Oh...how I miss my gym!! I'll take 1-2 days off and its back to my workout schedule.

[Kathi_at_Intuit]

@garman22 me too... I miss the swimming.

[IRonMaN]

Miss the gym?  I try to stay out of them.  I survived sadistic gym teachers in school swatting kids on the back of their bare legs with their whistle straps.  I'm not going back there...………………………….. unless of course they offer free chocolate.

[Kathi_at_Intuit]

What about cupcakes?

[IRonMaN]

I thought that was a given.

[IntuitCharlene]

Chocolate Cupcakes. Problem solved.

[IRonMaN]

What problems can't chocolate cupcakes solve?

[garman22]

Diabetes? Stupid Mike has to ruin it. heehee!!

[garman22]

@Kathi_at_Intuit .....I am a weightlifter and spend my off season doing just that. Nothing to competition mind you.....i hate being away during the tax season but this work allows me freedom to focus on that the rest of the year.

[Kathi_at_Intuit]

@garman22 that is awesome when you are able to do something you love!

[garman22]

Completely agree!! I need to do what you do for a completely different exercise.....but my people dont like water. :open_mouth:

[poolcleaner]

What is causing all of you to be so stressed?

[IRonMaN]

You just wait.  Once you start preparing returns in 5 months, you will start to feel the stress :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

[poolcleaner]

I only feel the stress the day of the deadline but there are a lot of deadlines!