Kathi_at_Intuit
Employee
Employee
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM

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.
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dkh
Level 15
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
I use lots of chocolate to help cope with these last days.   3 tax returns dropped off today.  What are these people thinking!
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IRonMaN
Level 15
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
They are thinking that they are your only clients :smile::smile:

Slava Ukraini!
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dkh
Level 15
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
I actually had a client comment I didn't "look" stressed this year.........must've been a good hair day.
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IRonMaN
Level 15
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
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.

Slava Ukraini!
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IntuitCharlene
Moderator
Moderator
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
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.
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Kathi_at_Intuit
Employee
Employee
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
@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.
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Kathi_at_Intuit
Employee
Employee
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
@IRonMaN but I love camping :joy:
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dkh
Level 15
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
@Kathi_at_Intuit   Hershey's dark chocolate with almonds.  Tax season main food group.
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dkh
Level 15
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
@IRonMaN   I keep my cellphone close so I can call my landline when the glampers settle in.   Saved by the bell.
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IRonMaN
Level 15
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
Good plan with the phone, but if you are going with dark chocolate, you have to go with Dove.

Slava Ukraini!
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sjrcpa
Level 15
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
New client dropped off her signed efile forms today along with a box of Godiva chocolate. I love her!

The more I know the more I don’t know.
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Kathi_at_Intuit
Employee
Employee
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
@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. :smile:
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dkh
Level 15
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
@Kathi_at_Intuit   love that - never thought of it that way.  I eat salad every day.
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Just-Lisa-Now-
Level 15
Level 15
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
I ate a whole box of Sees candy over the weekend  Ugh!

♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥Lisa♥¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪
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Kathi_at_Intuit
Employee
Employee
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
@sjrcpa that is awesome!
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Kathi_at_Intuit
Employee
Employee
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
@dkh yum! @Just £isa Now! love Sees, I could eat a whole box too!
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IRonMaN
Level 15
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM

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 🙂


Slava Ukraini!

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IntuitAustin
Intuit Alumni
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
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

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IRonMaN
Level 15
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
Sounds like a good run to me.

Slava Ukraini!
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Kathi_at_Intuit
Employee
Employee
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
@Intuit Austin I knew something was up, it is not time for the gym yet!
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garman22
Level 13
Level 13
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
Oh...how I miss my gym!! I'll take 1-2 days off and its back to my workout schedule.
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Kathi_at_Intuit
Employee
Employee
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
@garman22 me too... I miss the swimming.
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IRonMaN
Level 15
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
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.

Slava Ukraini!
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Kathi_at_Intuit
Employee
Employee
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
What about cupcakes?
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IRonMaN
Level 15
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
I thought that was a given.

Slava Ukraini!
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IntuitCharlene
Moderator
Moderator
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
Chocolate Cupcakes. Problem solved.
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IRonMaN
Level 15
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
What problems can't chocolate cupcakes solve?

Slava Ukraini!
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garman22
Level 13
Level 13
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
Diabetes? :laughing: Stupid Mike has to ruin it. heehee!!
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garman22
Level 13
Level 13
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
@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.
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Kathi_at_Intuit
Employee
Employee
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
@garman22 that is awesome when you are able to do something you love!
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garman22
Level 13
Level 13
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
Completely agree!! I need to do what you do for a completely different exercise.....but my people dont like water. :open_mouth::open_mouth:
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poolcleaner
Level 9
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM

What is causing all of you to be so stressed?

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IRonMaN
Level 15
‎12-07-2019 06:01 AM
You just wait.  Once you start preparing returns in 5 months, you will start to feel the stress :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye::stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Slava Ukraini!
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poolcleaner
Level 9
‎12-07-2019 06:02 AM
I only feel the stress the day of the deadline but there are a lot of deadlines!
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