I thought about starting this blog entry with some witty banter, but since I ain’t that witty, that would only prove a waste of braincycles on my part.

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I haven’t posted on my blog for a while now, and I’ve gotten some people asking what’s going on with the site.

Well, plain and simple - I’ve gotten swamped.  What I’ve thought long and hard about and what I’m going to be doing is what a number of you have requested:  “How do I do what you’ve done?”

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Sam was a decent enough guy, born into a middle class family. Very intelligent, he was shy and introverted and tended to avoid much social interaction. A classic “geek” if there ever was a prototype. Growing up through the middle grades and high school, he was typically the butt of many jokes, but one person made his life a living hell.

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Every now and then I am pulled aside and asked for advice about starting a business. If they find out that I operate my own business and that I help others start their own, I rarely find a person out there that doesn’t have some interest in starting their own business. The reasons for it vary greatly, but nonetheless, I believe the second “American Dream” is to have your own business (the first being having a house).

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Okay, first - no I haven’t abandoned this website. One of the great pleasures of owning your own business is the spontaneous trip. In this case, my family and I went to Florida to visit some friends and family - FYI … August in Florida - if you didn’t know it’s not the best time of year to visit.  I’m still melting…

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Earlier this month, one of my partners and I started a new business venture. We started planning for it about ten months ago. We spent countless hours planning, developing strategy, performing market analysis. You name it we did it.

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If you have read any self-development books, undoubtedly you know the importance of goal-setting. You need to set short-term, intermediate and long-term goals in order to measure and attain success. Without goals you will fail and never achieve what you really want in life.

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One of the best analogies I’ve once heard about a business was that your business SHOULD be like a child. When you start out, it is a helpless creature. It can’t live without you. It NEEDS you to grow. You need to nurture and care for your business when it’s young. However, as time goes on, your child, as should your business, it will grow and eventually it can take care of itself until it reaches the point that it will live it’s life without you. HOWEVER, most people tend to treat their business like a pet. A pet, especially when it’s young does need your help and more than likely, cannot live without you. The big difference is that even as that pet grows, it will ALWAYS NEED YOU AND WILL NEVER STOP NEEDING YOU. So businesses like that will continuously have to feed, cared for and be nurtured, FOREVER. So if you’re thinking about starting your business or if you already have an existing “pet”, the question is how can you move your business to become less reliant upon you in order to grow?

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Well here you are, after several years of hard work and saving, you’ve finally been able to afford that house you’ve dreamed about for years. You saved $35,000 for the down payment and now, the big day has come. The papers are signed and the real estate agent has put the “SOLD” sign out front - congratulations.

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“I’ve got a GREAT business idea, but I just need some money. If I only had $[fill in number here], I’d be on my way”

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