Until last year, tax time was seven long days a week, from January to April. Nobody dared talk to me and it had been that way since before I became a partner at the Kemp Harvey Group.
But this year – for the first time in decades – I find I can do things. I am able to take a course. I attended a family function recently. And I’m volunteering with the CVITP. If you want to do something that reminds you of how fortunate you are, there’s an eye opening situation.
I am still doing personal tax returns, not so much corporate right now but a bit. I don’t expect to re-build my business as I’m liking the slower pace. But are we always ready when the leaf turns over and life opens a different door? It was made clear to me, last year when this opportunity arose that I had to have a plan. I had to be able to move “to” something and could not be moving “from” something.
And I plan to remember one of the important life lessons I’ve had in the last 30 years: Be a steward and be of service.
