I tend to procrastinate. There’s so much to do these days it’s difficult to find the time to relax and just do nothing. So I push too many things to the next day then the next day and then the next. But this year is different.

I was able to complete my yearly ritual of filing my tax documents early.

Other years, even if I knew I was going to receive a ‘refund’, I would wait until the afternoon of April 14^th to begin the process. Then I’d spend hours gathering documents, receipts and other needed items frantically searching locations where they would be stashed for the year. We would finally tap that E-File button in the tax software just in time to meet the deadline. And the worst part would be if we owed additional tax. We’d be deciding whether to pay the tax now and stop eating for a couple weeks while sitting in a chilly, darkened home or set up a payment plan.

We would always choose the latter…

But this year is different. I tapped the E-File button on Friday, April 12 and off went the digital documents, filed and accepted by both tax agencies – with a nice return of some cash anticipated soon.

It feels good to get ahead. Perhaps procrastinating really isn’t all it’s cracked up to be…