We are into the New Year a few days now. This is the time when you get to use that brand new calendar – the one with puppies, beautiful scenery, or cute babies. Well, most people do, anyway.
This time of year is CRAZY for me. If you have any kind of financial accounting background you’ll know what I’m talking about. We have the normal month-end busyness on top of year-end, 1099s, customer rebates, sales tax returns, and auditors in for a week.
Times that by 3… The company I work for is really 3 subsidiaries under one parent. I have the pleasure of doing the accounting for all of them. Yay.
Which brings me to the point of this post – I don’t use a calendar. Ever. Everything in my schedule is stored in my head. This time of year I am on serious overload. I need extra storage in my brain. I don’t know why I have never taken to using a calendar. I can’t seem to form the habit of keeping things out of my head and onto paper (or screen). It’s dumb.
I can remember, even when I was young, I’d be ambitious and buy a planner at the beginning of every school year. I’d write in it for about a week, then the rest was blank space. Oddly enough, I’d always remember assignments, appointments, etc. I never missed turning in anything.
I feel like I’m scatter-brained because I am remembering to remember everything ALL. THE. TIME.
So, why in the world don’t I delegate some of the small details onto something inanimate? Something that will do the remembering for me – a Smartphone. I have a Smartphone, which means it’d be extremely easy to create and maintain a calendar. I consider myself pretty tech-savvy so that isn’t a barrier.
I am an accountant. My brain loves order. This calendar business doesn’t add up (pun intended 🙂 ). Maybe this should be my resolution. Stop all the brain-overload and rely on technology to handle the little stuff.
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