Financial Step-Work
Yesterday, I was working with my accountant, who is aware of my recovery and is familiar with the 12 Steps. We were reviewing my taxes (WOO HOO! REFUNDS!!!) and setting up an accounting program for my small business. As we were discussing what was done and what we want to do, it hit me: we'd kinda done some step-work. The gist is we'd performed a financial 4th & 5th to do my taxes, will be doing 10 when we frequently review transactions on the accounting program, and once a year we'll do another mini-4th & 5th when tax time arrives. Of course, there are some other pesky little steps available in all this; they really do apply well to many things in my life.
Of course, there's more initial 4th & 5th work to do on my and my partner's (our) personal finances! The funny thing is that in briefly discussing that, he mentioned something about goals and spending and I replied, "I imagine I should check with you before I do things like, oh... I dunno... BUY A CAR???" He chuckled and said that the car purchase was kinda like pulling a big ol' drunk before going into recovery! Ya think I got nailed???!!! We had a great laugh about it. (And, he really didn't beat me up about the car purchase...)
Of course, there's more initial 4th & 5th work to do on my and my partner's (our) personal finances! The funny thing is that in briefly discussing that, he mentioned something about goals and spending and I replied, "I imagine I should check with you before I do things like, oh... I dunno... BUY A CAR???" He chuckled and said that the car purchase was kinda like pulling a big ol' drunk before going into recovery! Ya think I got nailed???!!! We had a great laugh about it. (And, he really didn't beat me up about the car purchase...)
