Starting Your Own Business: Part 5

When you decide to start your own business, you can do it impulsively because of a significant emotional experience or event in your life, like the loss of a job or the appearance of an opportunity, or you can do it slowly and deliberately by spending several weeks or months in study and preparation. In either case, investigate before you invest. I learned from a very wealthy man many years ago that it is much easier to get into something than it is to get out of it. It is much more important that you spend lots of time investigating, in advance, before you commit time and resources to a particular business venture. This will do more to assure your long term success than anything else.

You’ve heard of the 80/20 Rule. This says that 20% of what you do will account for 80% of your results. Well, there is also a 20/80 Rule which says that the 20% of time that you spend in planning and evaluating at the beginning will be worth 80% of the results that you eventually get.

When you decide to start your own business, you should start off with a complete business plan. There are several books on the bookstands that you can get for a few dollars that will give you all the ingredients of a business plan. There are computer programs that will walk you through the process of building a business plan. The assembling and putting together the complete business plan is the test of the entrepreneur. If you have the discipline to do it, you will find that it is neither hard nor complicated. It just takes a lot of work on your part, generating the different numbers that you plug in to the different parts of the business plan.

Inc. magazine did a study of 100 start-ups a few years ago, 50 of which had done detailed business plans before they began and 50 of which had started on the back of an envelope or with an idea in the mind of the entrepreneur. After five years, they went back to interview the business founders. Most of the companies that had started without a business plan had gone bankrupt, ruining the founders and usually their families and friends in the process. Virtually all the companies that had started with a business plan were flourishing. Many of the business planners did complete business plans again every single year, sometimes spending weeks per year on their new business plans.

But here was the most important point. They asked the company founders how important the business plans had been to running their businesses. The answer they got surprised them. These people said that once the business plan was done, it was usually put in a drawer and hardly referred to again throughout the year. The exercise of thinking through the ingredients of the business plan prior to starting work was the most important part.

By doing a business plan, it forces you to think honestly and objectively about every part of the business before you begin. It will end up saving you an enormous amount of time and energy and will do more to guarantee your success than any other investment of time you can imagine.

Remember, time is money but money is time as well. If you have to work for five years to assemble $20,000 to invest in your business, that $20,000 represents five years of your life. You must invest and spend this piece of your life very, very carefully, and a business plan enables you to do it.

A business plan begins by your defining clearly the product or service you are going to offer in terms of how exactly it will benefit the prospective customer. You must determine exactly how much you will be able to charge for the product or service relative to how much you will have to pay to make your product or service available in the first place.

Before you begin with a new product or service, you must ask yourself, “Why would someone switch from what they are currently using to my product?”

For a new product to move into a competitive marketplace, it must have at least three factors about it that make it superior to whatever else is available. It must have three features or benefits that make it stand out and enable it to offer more than anything else than current customers may be using.

It must be faster, cheaper, easier to use or possess different features, factors or ingredients that other things don’t have.

A business plan is usually a month by month projection, going forward about 18 months, of how much you intend to sell of your product each month along the top line. Imagine that you are going to be brought in front of a board of bank examiners and they are going to ask you to explain and to defend every number on your plan. Discipline yourself to think through thoroughly every single number and base it on the most specific facts and details possible.

If you project a certain level of sales, you should be able to show exactly how much advertising you will do and how many leads the advertising will generate. You should be able to show exactly who will call on or speak to each of these customers and how many sales can be expected from this prospect base. You must be able to estimate the exact amount of sale per satisfied customer and the amount of growth and net profit per sale, per product, per customer, per call.

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Starting Your Own Business: Part 6

The measure of your ability as an entrepreneur is your ability to create a business plan and a budget and then to hit your numbers on schedule. Anyone can pull numbers out of a hat. But the best business people are the people who meet or exceed their numbers on a regular basis. This is the true measure of how good you really are.

Once you have an idea of how much you are going to sell and how you are going to sell it and who you are going to sell it to, and how you are going to deliver the product or service and get payment for it, you then go onto the second part of the business plan which is estimating all of the expenses involved in achieving the sales on the top line.

Take every single conceivable expense, in order, from the largest expenses down to the smallest, from cost of goods sold, the rent for your premises and your transportation all the way down to the cost of postage stamps. It’s useless to play games with yourself, or to pretend or hope that you will not have to pick up certain expenses. There is nothing that makes a business plan worse than the failure of the entrepreneur to include expenses that are unavoidable.

Once you have added up all your expenses, you then create a “fudge factor” of 20% of that total number. For example, if your top line sales for the month are going to be $10,000 and your total expenses to achieve those sales will be $5,000, you create a fudge factor of 20% or $1,000 and you include that as a real expense. Believe me, it will become a real expense, no matter what you do.

Now you have an accurate projection of your net income for that month. You do this for every month, taking into consideration seasonal fluctuations, vacations, cycles and trends in demand over the year, and estimate what your business will be for the next 12-18 months.

Every month, you review your actual figures against your projected figures to see how close you were. By using a spreadsheet program like “Excel,” by changing any one of the figures on a go-forward basis, you can then push a button and change all the subsequent figures so they are more in conformance with your real experience rather than your projections.

Over time, you can become extremely accurate at projecting exactly how much you will sell, how much it will cost to make those sales and how much you will have left over. The better you become at this, the better entrepreneur you become in every other respect as well.

There are two more points with regard to starting a new business. The first has to do with buying an existing business. Here is the rule. No one sells a profitable business. If someone has a business for sale, it usually has a hidden flaw of some kind. Perhaps you can compensate for the flaw and make the business prosper. Perhaps you cannot. But in any case, you must find out what it is.

I have spoken with countless entrepreneurs who have been offered businesses for sale. When they heard this rule from me they went back and investigated, and in every case, they found that there was something in the business that the seller had not told them. In one case, the major customer for the business was closing down and fully 50% of the revenues would disappear by the end of the year. In another case, a competitor was bringing out a better product at 25% lower cost than the best product of this company and their sales would be non-existent within 12 months. Find the hidden flaw and if you can’t compensate for it, don’t buy the business at all.

If someone wants to sell you a business and it has problems, offer to pay them for the business out of the profits of the business. If there are no profits, there is no payment. Anybody who is selling a profitable business will be open to receiving a substantial part of their return in the form of ongoing profits. If a person is reluctant to be paid out of profits, you can judge for yourself whether you want to pursue it.

The second area of starting a business has to do with multi-level marketing. There are many outstanding multi-level marketing companies in America today. Unfortunately, there are quite a few fly by night multi-level marketing companies as well. But here is the rule. Everything that applies to starting your own business, in terms of business planning, selling, budgeting, projecting, and investing many months and even years, applies to building a successful multi-level marketing business. If you are not prepared to invest 3-5 years building your business, don’t get in in the first place.

The greatest trap for would-be entrepreneurs in America is the lure of get-rich-quick schemes, easy money, something for nothing ideas that are advertised and promoted everywhere. There is within the psyche of most young people a passionate desire to short cut the process of success by finding a quick, easy way to jump the line and get to the head of the class without paying the full price in terms of hard, hard work.

Make the decision that this is not for you. Refuse to look for or listen to any get-rich-quick schemes. Walk away. The very act of looking for something for nothing can be fatal to your future.

Once you decide on a new business remember that the primary sources of value in America today are time and knowledge. Time refers to the speed at which you can deliver your product or service to your customers. Knowledge refers to the expertise content that you put into your product or service or business that makes what you do more important and valuable to your customers than what your competitors are doing.

By starting your new business at home, you can enjoy specific financial and tax benefits. Do your homework. Find out what they are. Be perfectly correct in all of your financial dealings, with everyone in your financial life, your bankers, your suppliers, your customers and with the tax people. Remember, life is very long and everything you do financially trails behind you for years and years.

There has never been a better time for you to achieve financial independence by starting your own business than there is today. Anything that anyone else has done, and especially something that hundreds and thousands and millions of other people have done, you can do as well, and probably even better. You can piggyback on the knowledge and experience of hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs who have put their best ideas and insights into books, tapes and courses. You can become one of the most successful business people in America by simply doing what others have done before you. There are no limits except the limits you place on your own imagination.

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SYMPTOMS OF LOW SELF - ESTEEM FEAR - FAILED - WEAKNESSES

People have the variety of symptoms of low self esteem. They are all related to a certain extent. Use your human judgment to choose the one that needs to be improved in your life and start working on it.

1, FEAR.

It could be the fear of many things. Fear of rejection or failure.Fear of pain or guilt.Afraid to speak in public or encounter new personnes.Peur losing someone or some chose.profondément in us it is always the fear of insecurity and uncertainty.

ANGER 2, is a very strong emotion that could be used to your advantage if you learn to control.

SELF-DESTRUCTION 3, is one of the most devastating symptoms of low self esteem. There is no other species that do things that they know they should not. Have you given a rabbit is going to a bar and a drunk get? I haven?t. Have you ever seen a tiger smoking a cigarette? I haven?t.Or have you seen a giraffe throw a birthday for the neighbourhood and serving of alcohol, drugs and cigarettes party? ?, I haven?t. I know that those examples a little exaggerated, but I hope that you get the picture. Human beings humans do constantly things that they already know that it will destroy the. We tend to meet fix? ?quick, simple pleasure at this time rather than invest some energy to benefit long-term do not their.

4, TRY TO BE LIKE someone.You are a special person with values and talents. Do not attempt to imitate someone. People may feel that. Discover your own values, purpose and live your life.

5, FOCUS ON their weaknesses.Failure is part of our life.You must accept and proceed as quickly as possible.More you think about your deepest weaknesses it will sink into your subconscious and difficult to correct.To enhance low esteem, you focus on your strengths.

6, Jobs change often.Sooner or later, you need to know what you want.

7, Take life too seriously.Take it easy and enjoy vie.Ne worry not about each small détail.essayer see presentation. ?Don?t sweat the small stuff?.

8, DISCONNECT from reality.They sometimes think that there is nothing wrong with their vie.Ils deny the réalité.Ils remain rather in their zone? ?comfort to create some of the changes, even if it?s necessary.

Studies found that a low esteem self-esteem in many cases is associated.

? violence, crime

? Self-destructive models such as drug and alcohol use

Problems with children ?

? outs School

? Teenage pregnancy

? sexual dysfunction

? Agog, neurosis

Problems ? in the workplace.

? communication problems

Suicide ?

Disorder eating ?

Conclusion:

Development of high esteem self-esteem is not only an individual issue, but a sociale.Chaque individual need, teachers, and parents should be educated to give the next generation a better approach, more confident to their vie.ayant healthy self-esteem may reduce the incidence of many of the problems.

The symptoms listed above of low self esteem can manifest differently in the life of everybody?s .the ' intensity of these grounds is still individual?s mental and emotional state, mental $ people are more sensitive than others, and their tolerance to the reality? ?attacks could be too different.

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Setting Goals and Objectives: 5 Myths

Only 3% of adults have clear, written, specific, measurable, time-bounded goals, and by every statistic, they accomplish ten times as much as people with no goals at all. Why is it then that most people have no goals?

Myth One: “I already have goals; I don’t need to set any.” People who say this also say that their goals are to be rich, thin, happy, successful, and live their dreams. Buy these are not goals, they are wishes and fantasies common to all mankind. A goal is like a beautiful home, carefully designed, revised continually, upgraded regularly, and worked on constantly. If it is not in writing, it is merely a dream or a wish, a vague objective with no energy behind it.

Myth Two: “I don’t need goals; I’m doing fine.” Living your life without goals and objectives is setting off across unknown territory with no road signs and no road map. You have no choice but to make it up as you go along, reacting and responding to whatever happens, and hoping for the best. If you are doing well today without written goals and plans, you could probably be doing many times better in the future if you had clear targets to aim at and the ability to measure your progress as you go along. It is vital to have goal setting objectives.

Myth Three: “I don’t need written goals; I have them all in my mind.” The average stream of consciousness includes about 1,500 thoughts a minute. If your goals are only in your mind, they are invariably jumbled up, vague, confused, contradictory and deficient in many ways. They offer no clarity and give you no motive power. You become like a ship without a rudder, drifting with the tides, crashing into the rocks inevitably and never really fulfilling your true potential.

Myth Four: “I don’t know how to set goals.” No wonder. You can take a Masters degree at a leading university and never receive a single hour of instruction on goal setting and achieving. Fortunately, setting a goal is a skill, like time management, teaching, selling, managing, or anything else that you need to become a highly productive and effective person. And all skills are learnable. You can learn the skill of goal-setting by practice and repetition until it becomes as easy and as automatic as breathing. And from the very first day that you begin setting goals, the progress you will make and the successes you will enjoy will astonish you.

Myth Five: “Goals don’t work; life is too unpredictable.” When a plane takes off for a distant city, it will be off course 99% of the time. The complexity of the avionics and the skill of the pilots are focused on continual course corrections. It is the same in life. But when you have a clear, long-term goal, with specific plans to achieve it, you may have to change course many times, but you will eventually arrive at your destination of health, wealth and great success.

One last point. Goal setting has been called the master skill of success. You have two choices in life: You can either work on your own goals, or you can work for someone else, and work on achieving their goals. When you learn the master skill, you take complete control of your life and jump to the front of the line in your potential for great achievement.

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Time management games - task resolve online features-

Time management games is a pleasant way to start to be more productive! The simplest types of games you can implement are those where you yourself time against a clock to accomplish tasks, with a reward to speed up your time.

For example, if normally takes you several hours just to bend all the laundry, see if you can set targets to help you go faster.Use a kitchen timer and allow 20 minutes to fold towels, 10 minutes to pair socks and 30 minutes to block all the shirts and the pantalons.Si you get it this fact in an hour, you have 30 minutes to spend to do some you?d as.

At work, you can use the same place of the first système.Au spending time are running through your email inbox or physics, count the number of items that you have to handle and allow two minutes for each one. Each time that you open, read and respond to, or otherwise deal with an email or a communication between in 2 minutes, reward yourself with an M & M or other small favor.

Online time management games is become very popular in teaching people for multitasking. A ?diner? configure is among the most popular, where you are the only character ingame designated wait on all the typical game clients.Un dinner requires juggling the following actions:

As levels progress, reach more customers and if all tasks are processed quickly, they become angry and points are perdus.Si don?t get enough tips to cover the costs, you lose the game; however, if you perform well under pressure, you can earn enough to work your way from a greasy spoon at the restaurant five stars.

Other online time management games include farming operations, child care or care for pets, kitchen or cake decoration and even course immobiliers.Bien, the main danger of these games property management is take - well - time.This means that if you want to improve your time management, you can schedule for these games and step beyond your set minutes allocated.

Playing games to improve time management skills also works in a team environment where team members work together to determine how the faster and more efficient problem resolution.

These games may be compound having to move many objects from one place to another using a prescribed tools or Assembly of the imposed where things faster, line type set over points are racked.

Both teams can be defined on concurrenceraient to render more intense games.

The main objective of these activities is to accelerate the functioning of the brain and develop the task of solving any capacités.Si you can use time management games to learn how to better multi-tasking and take open-problem solving approach, use them properly.

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WOMEN ' S SELF-ESTEEM

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Developing women ' s self-esteem became a crucial part of their personal development since women?s place in society has mostly been inferior compared to men?s.Feeling good about yourself as a woman means that you have to set realistic standards to overcome the obstacles in our fast changing society.

Take a look at what major Let?s factors affect women ' s self-esteem:

? CULTURE

? FAMILY

? RELATIONSHIPS

? WORK

? HEALTH

? LOL

? SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS

? TELEVISION, NEWSPAPERS, CRAFTSMANSHIP, INTERNET

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Developing women ' s self-esteem starts with realistic thinking.You have to set your own standard to feel good about yourself, to be a happy smiley Lady.

Improving women?s always begins inside self-esteem.You have to be clear about who you really are and what direction you would like to go to improve yourself.

Women ' s self-esteem can be damaged by the media easily. Women?s magazines, TV series are describing a type of woman whose most important value is her appearance. Start some serious diet, They have some plastic surgery, start taking pills and sooner or later they realize that did not help. Why is that?Because these changes can give you a temporary sense of good feeling, but your challenge to develop yourself from the inside has remained untouched.Your opinion of yourself based on the outside influence, but not who you really are that?s. What do you do than? You start another diet, another surgery, some new pills and you will end up in the same place where you were before. Not being satisfied with yourself. Not being happy in your own skin.

?If you keep on doing the same thing you keep on getting the same results. ?

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So, why don?t you change the process and start working backwards from the inside out?

First you have to be clear about who you really are and what you want to do.You have to analyze and revalue your thinking.Do not rely on other?s opinion, make decision to yourself.When you communicate with people listen first, aim don?t take anything for granted.Use your common sense and be decisive.

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Women with low self-esteem has no control over their life, they only rely on outside influences either it is coming from society, family or friends.You are the best person to go for advice regarding your own well being. Utilize your knowledge, experience and turn it into your advantage.Building woman ' s self-esteem is hard work. Goal you can make the necessary steps with enthusiasm and fun if you decide to do that.Ask questions about yourself and write down the answers including them as well. You will be surprised how much knowledge ?buried? wine lees within and you will get a clue what to do or which direction to go forward.You will come up with ideas you have never thought before. This is a very powerful and simple very technical.
Here are some basic questions for developing women ' s self-esteem.

? What did I enjoy doing when I was a child?Was it playing, drawing, talking to people, riding the bike, gardening, help my Mom to make dinner, some travelling or something else?What was it?

? What was I passionate about?

? Do I still have that passion?

? What did I want to become when I was a child?Teacher, lawyer, dentist, window washer?What was it?

? What skills did I have or do I have?

? Do I use them?

Remember those moments when you felt happy.

? Why were you so happy?

? Was it because something happened?

? Was it because of a particular person?

? Was it because what you had done before?

Was it because of year ? inside feeling?

? Was it because of an outside event?

Was it because somebody did something ? gold gave something to you?

Was it because you did something ? gold gave something to a special someone?

? Why was it?

Now think about a time when you did not feel happy and ask the same questions again.Why did not you feel happy?

After answering these questions try to reproduce the feeling when you felt great about yourself to now.Imagine the situation again or something similar in your recent environment which will remind you to that.Whenever you feel sad or not happy think about those moments and put these positive thoughts into your mind to interrupt the flow of the negative ones and substitute them with an uplifting feeling.

These questions and your answers to them will refresh your memory and you might use some of your ideas to make them part of your life again.For example; if you use to like spending time outside - hiking, biking - do that more often if you feel that ?you don?t even have time for doing it. ? Make time for it.

If you had a passion for painting, drawing or writing consider establishing a business around it or just do it for fun.As long as you enjoy doing it, it is the right direction to go.

And don?t be afraid of making mistakes.They are always part of the learning process of developing women ' s self-esteem.

?If Yu can?t make a mistake, you make anything? can?t

(Marva n. Collins)

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Starting Your Own Business: Part 4

When you begin your business, you must practice the “Two times, three times rule.” This rule says that, no matter how conservative your financial projections, everything will cost you twice as much as you have budgeted for and everything you do will take three times as long.

For example, if you think that it will cost you $1,000 to develop a product and bring it to the market, it will invariably cost $2,000 or more. Some start-ups go over by a factor of 10 times. If you think that it will take you three months to break even once you have started, you should triple that number and reckon that it will take you at least nine months. I’ve worked with companies that have taken three years instead of three months.

The most important single ingredient to any small business is cash. Cash is king. Cash is critical. Cash is everything. You must become an absolute fanatic about conserving cash. You must postpone, delay, defer and abandon every conceivable expense that you can dream of. You must not spend a single penny on anything that you cannot turn around quickly back into cash.

When I started my first new business many years ago, I went out and bought furniture, office fixtures, a large photo copier and invested thousands of dollars in printing. Within 90 days, I had burned through all my savings and there were still no sales. I went so broke so fast I could hardly believe it. In no time, I was selling off my possessions, taking out a new loan on my car, and borrowing money from my friends and relatives. I almost went under because I did not realize how important it was to conserve cash at the outset.

Whenever a bank or anyone else looks at your business, the very first and most important number that they will turn to will be the amount of cash you have on hand. Cash is like blood or oxygen to the brain. If you have it, you can survive. If you run out of it for any period of time, you will die; the enterprise will fail, no matter how good its prospects may be for the future.

Never buy when you can rent, borrow or lease. Never buy anything new if you can get it used. Postpone all major purchase decisions for at least 30 days and then reevaluate them again. Most major decisions postponed for 30 days are never made at all. Never buy large quantities of stationery or promotional materials. Buy only the amount of materials that you absolutely need at the moment to conduct the business in the present. Forget all the economies of mass production and saving where you can get better prices by ordering large amounts.

When you start your own small business, you will be presented with a thousand different ways to waste money and a thousand different people encouraging you to spend your money on things that are not helpful to you. You must become as careful and as crafty as a fox.

When you start your new business, the most valuable assets you have are your energy, imagination, character and discipline. It is your ability to get in there and do the work and get the results. It is your ability to make the key decisions and to get out there face to face with the customers and make the sales. It is the ability to follow through on your commitments and promises.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote that, “A great institution is the length and shadow of a single man.”

Well, even a small organization or company is the length and shadow of a single person. You are the business. The business is you. The business can never be more or less, better or worse than you are, on an hour by hour, minute by minute basis. The business is really a mirror image reflection of your character and ability. Your business tells you and the world who you really are.

According to the studies by the major accounting firms, investigating the finances and fortunes of many tens of thousands of businesses over the years, the statistics are consistent and usually unavoidable.

It takes about two years after a business starts up for the business to break even. During that two year period, the business will suffer mostly losses that will have to be made up from the energy and resources of the entrepreneur. In the second two years, the business will make a profit and most of those profits will go into paying back the bills and debts that were incurred in the first two years. After four years, the business will start to break into the clear and the entrepreneur will start to make some good money. It is only after the seventh year of entrepreneurship that the business starts to be really successful and the entrepreneur begins to enjoy the good life that is possible for a highly paid person in America. And remember, most of the highest paid people in America are entrepreneurs who have passed the seven year point in building and running their own businesses.

Of course, it is possible to beat the odds. But beating the odds in entrepreneurship is very similar to miracles. It is not that miracles don’t happen. It is just that you cannot depend upon them.

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Starting Your Own Business: Part 3

When you decide to start your own business, begin by reading several books on small business formation. Some of the best books ever written are on the bookstands today. Read about every single aspect of market planning, market research, financing, delivery and distribution systems, people, processes, promotion, advertising and especially sales.

The most critical element in an entrepreneurial business is your ability to sell the product in quantity. In fact, Inc. Magazine once wrote that, “If you have the ability to sell, you’re a fool not to start your own business.”

Dun & Bradstreet summarized 50 years of research into successful and unsuccessful businesses recently with the conclusion that, “The reason for business success is high sales; the reason for business failure is low sales. All the rest is commentary.”

Your ability to sell the product is the primary driving engine of entrepreneurship. In fact, one of the biggest mistakes that entrepreneurs make is that they build their business successfully by selling the product or service that they know and love, and then they hire salespeople and back-off to become the manager.

Now the company has a mediocre salesperson and poor manager and begins to go downhill rapidly. Finally, before the company hits bottom, the entrepreneur fires the salesperson and goes back out to selling where he should have been in the first place.

Many people think that the key to starting a new business is to arrange all the money in advance. I heard a business professor giving recommendations to a roomful of entrepreneurs recently and I almost fell off my chair. He said that, when you start your own business, don’t put any of your own money into it. Borrow all the money from the bank. And save your own money for your personal expenses.

Nothing could be further from the truth. When you start your own business, 99% of all the money you will have for your business is what is known as “love money.” This is money that you provide yourself or that people provide for you because they “love you.” No bank or venture capitalist will touch a new business start-up.

Banks and bankers are not in the business of taking risks. They are in the business of making good loans which they are absolutely sure can be repaid. When I started my new business some years ago, I was amazed to find that no banker anywhere had any interest whatsoever in lending me a single penny for my business. Most of them treated me as though I was a combination of a failure and a pickpocket when I went into see them. I learned that this is quite common. There should be a sign in every bank lobby that says “No Small Business Start-Ups Need Apply.”

Venture capitalists will only lend money to a company that has been in business for at least two years and that has a solid track record of increased sales, earnings and profits. Banks will only lend money to you if you can show them that you can cover the amount you want to borrow by about 500%. This means that they want $5 worth of tangible assets for every dollar that they are willing to lend to you. Not only that, they want personal guarantees from you and your spouse that will outlive a bankruptcy and last all of your life. They will want an assignment of every single piece of property that you own, and many banks will even ask you, if you can believe this, to deposit in a certificate of deposit with them, the amount that you want to borrow.

The very best way to start a small business is for you to accumulate all the money that you can personally, sometimes by using your savings, loans against your homes, and money from your friends and family, and then start off. You should plan to grow by bootstrapping. This means that you start small and you grow out of your sales and your profits. This takes a little bit longer but enables you to develop the skills and abilities as you go along that are commensurate with the size of your growing business.

Many of the greatest enterprises in America started on a hope and prayer and a little bootstrapping on the part of an underfunded entrepreneur.

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100 SELF-ESTEEM BUILDING IDEAS

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Use the following self-esteem building strategies, ideas or methods to enjoy life to the fullest and to learn and grow by thinking about them. It's supposed to be fun. The best case scenario is when you do what you love to do.

Are you ready? Here is the list of 100 self-esteem building ideas:

1. Smile. He-he-he. It's not that hard is it?

2. Sing. Be aware of the neighbors.

3. Dance. No, not me, but you can do that.

4. Compliment someone.

5. Take time to do things you enjoy. Time Management Courses

6. Learn something new.

7. Have a sense of humor. There is a joke in every little corner. Go pick it up!

8. Plant a flower. Nurture it and grow with it.

9. Do silly things. Do it one more time!

10. Be creative. Write, draw or paint something.

11. Respect every living creature.

12. Think of somebody who you love. No, it's not me this time. Please think of somebody else.

13. Think about how lucky number this is.

14. Read books. Send me a short e-mail about your favorite one and the reason why it is the one.

15. Listen to classical music.

16. Talk to a butterfly or any other beautiful creature outside.

17. Exercise. Lifting up a beer can does not count.

18. Give compliments to those around you.

19. What makes you unique?..........

20. What is your strongest quality?

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21. What do you like about yourself?

22. Play chess outside in the rain.

23. Texas hold'em?

24. Think positive.

25. What is the #1 thing that you are the most enthusiastic about?

26. Clean your bathroom. Tons of fun.

27. Remodel your room.

28. Take a vacation. No, not to the nearest pub. Something more exotic.

29. List five strengths you have.

30. Play board games. Checkers, scrabble, backgammon, origami, monopoly, brainteasers, family games.

31. Say "HI" to the SUN.

32. Be spontaneous.

33. Visualize success. You can just look at my picture on my "ABOUT ME" page.

35. Replace negative self-talk with a positive one.

36. Set goals.

37. Keep track of your progress.

38. Look for positive and supportive people.

39. Think of at least 20 things you know how to do.

40. The 5 greatest achievement in your life.

41. Take a risk.

42. Watch the movie "HURRICANE" with Denzel Washington. You don't necessarily have to invite him. He'll be there anyway.

43. Meditate.

44. Surf online, but not for too long. After you have found my site do not go anywhere else.

45. Make mistakes. They are good for you.

46. Keep a journal.

47. Learn a foreign language. Hungarian for example. I can help. After 50-75 years you will be familiar with the basics.

48. Visit a local bookstore. Breath in the knowledge, wisdom and leave.

49. Write a poem.

50. Be a genius. Read about them first.

51. Buy a piece of cheesecake and don't eat it. Practice self control.

52. Talk to someone under age 6. Tons of fun.

53. Talk to someone over age 70. Tons of wisdom.

54. Build a website instead of watching TV.

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55. Brainstorm ideas about anything you want to achieve in your life.

56. Understand that your failure is an opportunity to learn.

57. You can handle everything.

58. Share the love.

59. You have the right to say YES. You have the right to say NO.

60. Use self affirmations.

61. Light a candle and be silent.

62. Watch your posture.

63. Think about this: "Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." ( Winston Churchill )

64. Have or give massage. The healing power of a personal touch.

65. Do yoga.

66. Just do it!

67. Cook something.

68. Take a hike.

69. Create a collage.

70. Play hide and seek.

71. Kevin Welch said once: "There'll be two dates on your tombstone/ And all your friends will read 'em/ But all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em..." Please use that little dash for building self-esteem.

72. Pick one thing you like about your appearance.

73. Read about Mahatma Gandhi.

74. Say something nice to someone with no reason.

75. Buy a flower.

76. Walk backwards.

77. Become a better listener.

78. Take a deep breath.

79. Notice what you do right on a daily basis.

80. Sign up for my free newsletter!

81. List 10 things you can do to make someone else laugh.

82. Think of 10 things you can do for yourself that don?t consist of buying something.

83. Do the same with your loved ones.

84. Spend an hour with yourself every day.

85. Get organized and please note that I am still working on it.

86. Put something here on your own. Perhaps about self-esteem building. What do you think?

87. Make decisions.

88. Write down what's in your mind at this very moment. Don't think about it, just write it down.

89. Which is almost 90. Think about how much fun you had during the last 90 days and repeat it.

90. Look at your child. Any of them.

91. Play with water.

92. Reward your success.

93. Give.

94. Focus.

95. Be persistent.

96. Be aware that trial and error are part of life.

97. What is your #1 major goal in your life?

98. Pick a hobby.

99. Stretch your capabilities.

100. Ok. That's enough. No, just one more. Get up 20 minutes earlier tomorrow morning and read this list again.

What I wanted to show you here is that you don't need money or high intellect to have fun or to understand any self-esteem building exercise.

The tiny, little things in your every day life will create the joy and happiness you have been looking for.

Self-esteem building is about appreciating life, respecting each other and being and feeling confident in your every day activities.

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