The Tax Man Cometh - Is He Who You Really Fear?

Today is Income Tax Day - probably the most dreaded day of the year! I am also involved in a professional outsourcing company (accounting, marketing, etc.) and we are still getting calls on filing -

The truth is that we tend to hide our head in the sand - if the news is bad, we never want to hear it or face it. I am no different that most in this regard. I have swept so many things under the rug, the rug doesn't really lie on the floor anymore - it is more like a beach - squishy under my toes!

But when you are a small business or entrepreneur, the thing that is hardest to do - harder than facing the Tax Man - is to look objectively at your business and realize that you may not be hitting the mark. It may be time to call in a coach, a mentor, to join a mastermind group, get more education - so that your business can thrive!

I work with clients all over the country who are at first hesitant to admit that The Coaching Queen can help them. But in reality, what I offer is a set of skills - tool kit - that they may have not had access to before. I help analyze their business, and I give them the benefit of over 27 years of experience in business, the good, the bad, and yes, the ugly! I want to help them avoid the pitfalls and failures I have faced - but learned from. I am here to serve and help them succeed.

So as much as we look at the deadline for taxes - we need to look at the deadline of when we will make the call, send the email - ask for help. I worked with a wonderful author, M. Nora Klaver, who wrote a book MAYDAY - ASKING FOR HELP. I read her book and could see myself in so many of the situations and stories of those afraid to ask for help - our pride, our sense of being expected to do it all - know it all - just stops us cold when asking for help.

But in her book, Nora points our that it is when we ask for help, we are taking steps to success and more control in our lives. We DON'T have to do it all - know it all. We are always learning, tinkering, trying new things.

So whether it is you and I who are destined to walk the path together, or you and someone you have thought of starting a journey with to help you achieve greater success, I wish you all the best and ask you to throw out the fear of asking for help as surely as you throw the fear of the tax man out the window every April 16 -- Yes, tomorrow is Another Day!

Melissa