When Is The Right Time To Start Your Small Business?

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If you’ve been thinking about starting a business, perhaps you’re waiting for “just the right time.” But is there ever such a thing as just the right time to go into business for yourself? Sometimes it’s the right time, and you’re not even aware of it.

So I kept going to work – dreading every Sunday night because it meant another long work week of drudgery. I was young but felt old. I didn’t want another job in my same field. I didn’t want to go back to school. I had reached a dead end.

I’d dare say 9 out of 10 reading this can understand that feeling of drudgery every Sunday night. In my case, during the last 2 years of my salaried existence, I dreaded Monday nights because Tuesdays were “department heads meetings” where the boss would shred us to bits, call us unspeakable names and then leave us to meet his expectations with no budget and no support. It was a terrible cycle and ALL of us felt miserable. All we knew was that we wanted out. We would talk of starting our own business, but we kept waiting :

• for money to drop from the sky
• for the “perfect” opportunity to arrive
• for the time when we had “more” experience
• for a “divine signal from above”

Then something unexpected happened: while walking my dog, I met a man who needed help with a project completely unrelated to anything I’d ever done before – developing a business plan.

I had found my calling! As it turns out, I love helping entrepreneurs build companies. It’s been my passion ever since. Without planning for it myself, I was in business!

Lots of people find their calling by accident. It’s as though a higher power “arranged” the sequence of events to enable them to “stumble” upon this calling.

MOST people find their calling in two old fashioned ways - by hard work or by trial and error. It’s easy to read about how people “accidentally found” their niche and expect that the same ought to happen to us. So we wait for some divine intervention and when it doesn’t come, we find solace in thinking that “well, it isn’t meant to be”.

So many of you are thinking to yourself now… “Yeah, that’s right… I’ve got to be bold, be daring… I’m gonna quit my job and BE MY OWN BOSS!”.

Before you do that, read on :

What are the indicators that it’s time to hang up your own shingle, become your own boss?

In the end, despite whatever you’ve read, heard or seen, one question remains :

Life is short; what are you waiting for?

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