It’s tax season, again.

I’ve got to tell you that it is my most unfavorite time of year. Even though I keep receipts all year long, they still must be categorized, totaled up, and so on.

While the process of doing my own personal taxes is more involved than my business taxes, the jolt I experience when I see in black and white how much more I spent than I earned always causes me to stop and reflect on whether I should keep up this writing “gig.”

I ask myself the same questions each spring, “What is my goal with my writing? Do I still enjoy it? Do I continue to see value in writing? Does it benefit others?”

If I can answer “yes” to those questions, I pledge to “give it a go” until tax season rolls around again the following year. I’ll give it my best effort, always keeping pleasing my reading audience in the forefront. 

I guess I’ll end here and head for the post office (to mail in my official documents) and then to Dairy Queen for a Blizzard (my reward to myself for seeing the process of tax filing through for yet another year.)