Web Business Creation
Web Business Creation....
I find myself in the seat of a fancy sports car, I can't wait to drive it and yet...what if I mess it up somehow? What if I ruin it somehow? Excitement and nervous anticipation at the same time! I, of course, am talking about a new business creation. I think in my soul I truly am an entrepreneur, because of the way my heart leaps when I start the process and consider actually doing what I have dreamed about as a child. Back then it was a sticker shop, "The Annex" located on Main Street in Spanish Fork, Utah. My six year old self was instantly happy just walking in the door.... I felt that same joy walking into "The Bolt" quilt shop in Monroe, Connecticut, last year. The idea of owning a small business really gets my heart pumping. Although, now that I have started down an educational path dedicated to business management and entrepreneurship, I know things I didn't know before. I find the road to my small business cluttered with equally and decidedly more important things, with obligations to family and callings and hobbies that I didn't have all of those years ago.
I find myself dredging my brain for twenty business ideas. Three, I could maybe come up with, but twenty? I am struggling. I want the ideas to be real and potentially viable, not just nonsense or unrealistic ideas, just to get through an exercise. Some of the business models are completely new to me, like the Affiliate, and Community. I guess I still see everything in terms of Manufacturer or Service oriented. But I am here to learn and excited to take this class and try it out.
I do believe learning by doing is a powerful practice. As I watched the Ready, Aim, Fire video this past week, I started to realize that a lot of life is that way. It seems out of order somehow, like we are thrown into the deep water to learn to swim before we might be ready, but swim we do. My son Rhodric went to Chile on a mission after 4 years of highschool French. He went straight to the Chile CCM (MTC) which gave me a little anxiety knowing no Spanish and after a few weeks instruction was thrust into the population and now he speaks like a native Spanish speaker. I have been teaching my 17 year old daughter to drive, same thing- you can read all you want, talk all you want, but until you sit in the drivers seat, engage the gear and feel the car move under your direction, you don't fully understand what driving is. I guess my fear is, because I can't see the bigger picture, that I will ignorantly ruin my business before I really have time and energy to devote to it. Or that I will succeed and not be able because of my school/family/church needs to fulfill my business needs. I hate disappointing people, and I don't want to let anyone down. However, greater than my fear, I know in whom I have trusted, and I know God will guide me a long. He will not do my work for me, but He has always helped me do His work, and as long as my work builds and takes me down the path He has set, I will be ok. The choices are mine, and I am here to learn, so even failure is a teacher.
I just need to figure out the what...and it looks like Project #1 is definitely designed to help me do that! If I correctly understand and use the tools I have been given, I will learn as I go and find a little joy along the way.
I find myself in the seat of a fancy sports car, I can't wait to drive it and yet...what if I mess it up somehow? What if I ruin it somehow? Excitement and nervous anticipation at the same time! I, of course, am talking about a new business creation. I think in my soul I truly am an entrepreneur, because of the way my heart leaps when I start the process and consider actually doing what I have dreamed about as a child. Back then it was a sticker shop, "The Annex" located on Main Street in Spanish Fork, Utah. My six year old self was instantly happy just walking in the door.... I felt that same joy walking into "The Bolt" quilt shop in Monroe, Connecticut, last year. The idea of owning a small business really gets my heart pumping. Although, now that I have started down an educational path dedicated to business management and entrepreneurship, I know things I didn't know before. I find the road to my small business cluttered with equally and decidedly more important things, with obligations to family and callings and hobbies that I didn't have all of those years ago.
I find myself dredging my brain for twenty business ideas. Three, I could maybe come up with, but twenty? I am struggling. I want the ideas to be real and potentially viable, not just nonsense or unrealistic ideas, just to get through an exercise. Some of the business models are completely new to me, like the Affiliate, and Community. I guess I still see everything in terms of Manufacturer or Service oriented. But I am here to learn and excited to take this class and try it out.
I do believe learning by doing is a powerful practice. As I watched the Ready, Aim, Fire video this past week, I started to realize that a lot of life is that way. It seems out of order somehow, like we are thrown into the deep water to learn to swim before we might be ready, but swim we do. My son Rhodric went to Chile on a mission after 4 years of highschool French. He went straight to the Chile CCM (MTC) which gave me a little anxiety knowing no Spanish and after a few weeks instruction was thrust into the population and now he speaks like a native Spanish speaker. I have been teaching my 17 year old daughter to drive, same thing- you can read all you want, talk all you want, but until you sit in the drivers seat, engage the gear and feel the car move under your direction, you don't fully understand what driving is. I guess my fear is, because I can't see the bigger picture, that I will ignorantly ruin my business before I really have time and energy to devote to it. Or that I will succeed and not be able because of my school/family/church needs to fulfill my business needs. I hate disappointing people, and I don't want to let anyone down. However, greater than my fear, I know in whom I have trusted, and I know God will guide me a long. He will not do my work for me, but He has always helped me do His work, and as long as my work builds and takes me down the path He has set, I will be ok. The choices are mine, and I am here to learn, so even failure is a teacher.
I just need to figure out the what...and it looks like Project #1 is definitely designed to help me do that! If I correctly understand and use the tools I have been given, I will learn as I go and find a little joy along the way.
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