Manifesto for business success

Posted on October 19, 2007
Filed Under - projects, Emotions |

I’ve been having a minor crisis of confidence recently. This can easily happen when you are on your own and don’t have anyone to pep you up. I lost confidence in my business ideas, the projects I want to develop to earn an income for myself. I became temporarily unconvinced that they were good ideas in the first place, and I started to lose faith in my ability to make them work.

In the meantime, I started a new temping job this week in Bodmin. It’s a small company, nice people and the work is easy. It turns out that taking a step back and just doing something relatively mindless was the break I needed. It was all getting a bit intense.

However, today I decided on a few things: a manifesto for business success, if you will!

  1. I am positively going to ooze confidence about my ideas! If I don’t do it, no-one will. I believe that the more I do this, the more confident I will become without even trying.
  2. My ideas are good. I don’t know if they are workable and I don’t know if they will work for me. But fundamentally they are good ideas and it is worth giving them a shot.
  3. My brain needs to be working all the time. I can’t afford to get stuck on a particular issue or not have any idea of the way forward. I need to be constantly coming up with ideas and following them through. When you are doing a mindless temping job, it is easy for your brain to go on holiday for a bit, which then seeps into your non-working hours as well. So I need to keep the plans and ideas constantly ticking over and never go anywhere without a notebook!
  4. I’m going to enjoy myself more. Yes, it’s still going to be intense but I can make a bit more of an effort to find the fun in it. After all, it’s what a lot of my ideas are based on, that endorphin rush, that flow of good feeling that you get when you’ve worked really hard and pushed yourself but you’ve enjoyed doing it.

I’m not going to elaborate on my ideas in this blog, at this point. I do want to keep that element of commercial confidentiality - at least until I am a bit further down the line.

But I might as well refer to them as something, so I will call them Project Red and Project Blue. Project Red is the one I’m going to concentrate on first and it is an online venture. Project Blue comes a bit later and is an offline venture.

Stumble it!

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