Use the holidays to LOWER stress.

The holiday season is frantic and bustling for retailers and businesses providing holiday-related services. However, for those businesses not very involved with the holidays, activity is often slow. So I try to use those non-producing hours to get my tax records up to date, clean out files both paper and electronic, service my computers, and plan business and marketing for next year. It sure makes the new year, especially tax season, much more relaxed.