When you first go to start a business, you start to understand the old saying about a journey of a thousand miles. It really is a single step, but that step may feel like having to move your foot from one spot to another through several feet of drying mud. And while it may feel like you are trapped, the first step is actually not the movement itself- it is acknowledging that you are the one who does the moving. All too often in life, we take on a rather childlike mindset that says that someone or something else has most of the power over our lives. And when you are an employee in somebody else’s business, this is most definitely the case. Someone else really does hold most of the cards.
But once you take that first step, whether it be taking on some freelance work to gain experience or registering your own corporation, you will find that the mud will begin to thin down slightly. Now granted, it is most definitely going to keep on being fairly thick for a long time, but that first step is definitely going to be the most challenging to take. Although, truth be known, out of an entire journey, there probably is no “most difficult” step. After all, once your business makes its first million, you are going to naturally want to strive toward your first million dollar quarter.
What it ultimately comes down to with the start of your business is that you will actually need to take some action with it. While you can read up all you want, and go through a lot of writing about what you want to do, you have got to take the responsibility for doing whatever it is, and then just do it. It almost does not matter if you completely screw up, either. Just doing something, getting burned a bit and learning a lesson is a good start.