What are you waiting for? Do you have an idea? Do you have passion? Have you made a plan?
If you are ready to get started making some money on your own, where you are your own boss, then you need to start doing something and not waiting on the perfect situation. There is no perfect situation! The stars will never be in perfect alignment where all conditions are just perfect! You are going to have to step out on faith at some point and not be afraid of failure.
One of the things that causes me the biggest problems is getting bogged down in the details of planning. It is usually when I am “planning” that something inside me says, “you know, this is really a bad idea, and it just won’t work.” I try to bat those ideas away fiercely!
A lot of people are like me and they get analysis paralysis in the name of “good planning.” There is no question that having a good, detailed plan is essential for your business’ success. There is nothing worse than going into business “flying blind” with no direction. Except maybe, not going into business because you got bogged down in the details of your plan and talked yourself out of it. I’m not saying that you should go into business when the numbers just won’t work; but you should definitely not get turned off from a business just because your plan is stalling you out.
So, what’s my advice. Just do something. Take small steps and do something for your business every day. It may take you some time to get through the business plan, but you will at least be going somewhere and not sitting still at the starting gate!