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Posted by A. B. Dada on February 9th, 2006
Today is as good a day as ever to start your business.
You don’t need money, you don’t need to buy some work at home plan. You don’t need a business license or a rented office or even a phone number or website to become an entrepreneur.
You need direction.
You can start, today, by taking an hour and starting to write down (or type down) your thoughts about what you want to do and when you’d want to do it. When I think about a new business (I am currently contemplating 4 new businesses in the next 6-18 months), you really need a constant stream of ideas. These ideas come to me non-stop, almost 12 hours a day. Sometimes they’re stupid ideas, sometimes they’re big lightbulbs going off, but they’re always productive in the long run. My most profitable business experiences have been from taking a crazy idea from a year earlier and putting it into action once I realized there was a market for that crazy idea.
Get a notepad, even a 99 cent flip. Get a pen. Start to write. I actually like to do this digitally in the most simple fashion: Windows Notepad. I’ll write a few sentences down, save the file to my desktop, and close it. Whenever an idea pops up, even if it is just a fragment of an idea or a thought, I write it down on paper and follow up with typing it into that text file later.
Even if you’re 6 months away, start jotting your crazy thoughts down. Sometimes it might be “pay down debt” or “design a logo.” Other times it might be “bacon and eggs” or other bizarre thought streams that make no real sense now, but actually become productive later on.
If you’re going to become your own boss, you need to start brainstorming — today, right now, ten minutes ago.
I just bought a new notebook, and I’ve got more ideas coming out of me than the paper will handle. I can’t wait for my plane trip to Europe and Asia next week, I will have 20 productive hours (each way!) to jot ideas down. Out of the hundreds of random thoughts, profitable and productive ideas come forth.
If you don’t start today, you won’t start tomorrow or next month. By the time you extricate yourself from your personal and financial responsibilities enough to start your own business, it’ll be too late to find the time to brainstorm.
Just get out and do it. 5 minutes a day is all you need, but you might be surprised at how quickly it become 30 minutes a day or more once you find a way to get in the zone.