Sunday, May 22, 2016

How to change patient behaviors? Don’t lecture them.

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Taxes.

Doing taxes feels like a financial rectal exam.  I hate doing taxes.  Yeah, I don’t like getting rectal exams either.

It’s not that I resent paying the government for the fine services they render and the high quality of elected officials we have. It’s not the existence of taxes I hate; it’s just doing taxes make me feel extremely insecure.  Sharing my personal and business finances with my accountant and the government makes me feel like a dope.  I feel like I’m stripped naked with all of my flaws exposed.

This is actually ironic because my accountant is a patient of mine. He also, despite my urging, has been slacking on coming to see me.  “I just haven’t been taking care of myself and feel ashamed,” he told me in an email.  “It feels like I’m going to the principal’s office.”

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