A peaceful tax season starts long before January.

A peaceful tax season starts long before January.

This time of year, I start checking in with my bookkeeping clients about who’s handling their taxes.

I’m not trying to rush things — I just know what January feels like: overwhelming and already full of decisions.

So instead of waiting for the pressure to hit, I spread the work out during the year. That one small system shift — an early check-in — makes everything calmer later (and makes my life easier in January too!).

It’s the same principle I encourage for any service provider working with neurodivergent clients:
- Build in time-safety.
- Create buffer space for decisions.
- Don’t save all the hard things for one high-pressure month.

Overwhelm is created by bad systems — and reduced by good systems.
Pick your outcome.