My mind needs a chance to wake up in the morning so I generally like to blog as a means of getting things started. The past couple of days, I haven’t been as good about doing it first thing. I am trying not to worry about the future and figure a few things out. Last night, I signed up for a SCORE webinar. The neat thing about SCORE is that it offers free business mentorship and classes from experienced business executives. I think I will see if I can get some one-on-one mentorship as I am having trouble writing a business plan.
Business plans are key and I’ve never successfully written one before. This quite possibly helped me down the road to failure of my previous three attempts. I don’t know why I am having trouble grasping the concept. I mean I think it is because I am unclear in my own mind? Well, maybe now I have some idea of the questions to ask or I need to make a list of questions to ask the mentor that I will be assigned.
I made kind of a cascade of failures in the past. I’m not blaming myself for them, rather I think it might not have been mature enough to start a venture. I am disabled and on the autistic spectrum but I know for a fact that I have the intelligence to do this and it isn’t rocket science. I want to take stock of why I was unsuccessful in the past. I think I will look at the reasons. Here are some that I can think of off of the top of my head.
- Mixing business and personal funds.
- No business plan.
- Not understanding basic accounting like utilizing spreadsheets to see where my money was going.
- Not knowing how to use the myriad of business resources available to me.
- Spending money on unnecessary things.
- Not taking the time out weekly to make certain that I am organized.
These are 6 of the things that immediately come to mind when I think of the mistakes I have made. I have already begun to tackle what I can. The business plan aspect stymies me though and I do not really know why. It could be that I don’t really know what it is that I would really like to do? I mean I can try a bunch of things under my LLC and see what sticks but that doesn’t seem very organized.
Maybe instead of thinking about what I would like to do, it might help considering what I really do not want to do. I don’t want to be an Information Technology Consultant or an IT Managed Services provider. I believe that I would really like to teach the future generation of technology professionals. I believe I can offer a better experience than the traditional classroom one offered by Delaware Technical Community College. I think teaching might be kind of fun because it would lead to learning through labs and experimentation.
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