Business Plans Are Lies
How can anyone forecast what the world will be like 6 months from now or 3 years from now? Most of us don’t know what we will be doing next Thursday. So how is anyone going to be able to predict what a business will look like 2 or 3 years from now? So when someone asks you for a business plan in order for you to apply for money just give them what they want and don’t worry about how accurate it is. The best experts in the world don’t know the future so why should you? If you need help with your business plan contact your local Small Business Development Center. The help is free or close to it. To find a center near you go to http://www.asbdc-us.org/
Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Stop At Road Blocks
If you’re looking for free money to start a business and you can’t find exactly what you need, what are you going to do then? That is the test of a true entrepreneur. Will you give up? Will you say, “I told you so. I didn’t think there would be any money for me.” Do you think that all the great businesses and entrepreneurs in this country started that way? Do you think they gave up at the first road block? Life is full of road blocks for everything that is really fun to do in life. If the road blocks weren’t there, it wouldn’t be fun. Look at them as something to go over, around or through.
Life Isn’t Easy But It Can Be FunRemember, you have nothing better to do than to try to improve your life. And you can have a great time doing it. When you call these agencies, they are not going to have professional comics answering the telephone giving you a laugh a minute as they shower you with all the information you need to get a wad of cash. They are just people like you and me trying to get through the day and do a decent job. But you can create fun for yourself and make the process a wonderful experience if you don’t take yourself so seriously.
Make the whole process a game. Tell the bureaucrats things like:
• “I have no idea what you are doing.”
• “I bought a book from some crazy guy about getting money for housing.”
• “I’m scared as hell about filling out any government application.”
Talk like this disarms people. The more natural and honest you are about what you are doing, the more people can relate to you, and the more fun you will have.
Invest In Yourself: Entrepreneuring Or EducationThe two ways to have job security are to create your own job by starting a business (you’re not going to fire yourself unless you’re really stupid!) or get the education and training that people are willing to pay money for so if someone comes into you organization and fires you, you can go right across the street and get a better job than the one you have because you have the skills that people need.
You can’t rely on other people. You have to rely on yourself. So invest in yourself and not the stock market. Why give all you money to some stock broker when they will have all the fun playing with your money and you have all the worry. Stock brokers aren’t so smart about the market. They’re smart about getting your money. Did you have any money in Internet stocks?
Treat Anything New You Want to Do Like Learning To WalkWhen kids learn to walk for the first time they fall on their butts 100 times before they get it right. Why is it that we get so frustrated when we do something new and we can’t do it right away. If you want to do something new in your life you will fall down on your butt 100 times before you get it right. It’s OK. Everyone does it. They just don’t admit it.
|
