{"id":18235,"date":"2012-02-03T07:57:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T12:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=18235"},"modified":"2012-02-03T07:58:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T12:58:35","slug":"psyching-myself-up-to-do-bookkeeping-and-billing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/psyching-myself-up-to-do-bookkeeping-and-billing\/","title":{"rendered":"Psyching myself up to do bookkeeping and billing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I avoid billing and bookkeeping as long as I can. \u00a0It&#8217;s not that the work is hard, it&#8217;s just not my fave thing to do. \u00a0I let it loom larger than life inside my head. \u00a0So when the deadline is approaching, what I have to do is start psyching myself up a few days ahead of time, changing my self talk from &#8220;I don&#8217;t wanna do it!&#8221; to \u00a0&#8220;It will feel good to whip thru the billing Friday and have it behind me.&#8221; \u00a0I tell myself that over and over a few times a day for days beforehand. \u00a0Every time the thought comes up that, &#8220;oh phooey I can&#8217;t have fun until after I do the billing,&#8221; I remind myself it&#8217;s just a four hour job if I stay focused. \u00a0It&#8217;s a guilt-ridden four day job if I play on Facebook at the same time. \u00a0 And for now, it&#8217;s Friday and the billing and bookkeeping is done. \u00a0Everyone wins!<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/psyching-myself-up-to-do-bookkeeping-and-billing\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Psyching myself up to do bookkeeping and billing&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/psyching-myself-up-to-do-bookkeeping-and-billing\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/psyching-myself-up-to-do-bookkeeping-and-billing\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/psyching-myself-up-to-do-bookkeeping-and-billing\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Psyching%20myself%20up%20to%20do%20bookkeeping%20and%20billing&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/psyching-myself-up-to-do-bookkeeping-and-billing\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I avoid billing and bookkeeping as long as I can. \u00a0It&#8217;s not that the work is hard, it&#8217;s just not my fave thing to do. \u00a0I let it loom larger than life inside my head. \u00a0So when the deadline is approaching, what I have to do is start psyching myself up a few days ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18240,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18235\/revisions\/18240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}