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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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Mixing business and personal funds.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. No business plan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Not understanding basic accounting like utilizing spreadsheets to see where my money was going.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Not knowing how to use the myriad of business resources available to me.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Spending money on unnecessary things.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Not taking the time out weekly to make certain that I am organized.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Maybe instead of thinking about what I would like to do, it might help considering what I really do not<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}