Business Building Basics, Part 1 -- The Acceptance of Your Calling

 So you want to start a home business or company. 

  What are your thoughts about such?  You probably know that AI could give you the rundown on how to begin.  But maybe this human can give a few mental ideas as a beginning on the subject, too, as there are a few years of experience under my belt.

   I have been "dealing" with my home business (pardon the pun) since 1994.   I closed the larger Montana Wheat and Grain sales in 2008 and let the Network Marketing division run itself with only a few years of intervention through the current day.  It's often sat for years as a side-gig and barely a hobby.  There were years of stopping to take on other tasks that seemed more important or times of "needing a break," or supposedly "being done with it."   For instance, I am currently completing an entire year of teaching Music Education Band and Chorus in the public school system.  Now that's a switch from sales. 

  Why is that?  I can only say that my deep desire to share my music skills with the next generation in an educational setting needed to be pacified.  The calling was sure for the year, and I am completing it.   And now?

Back to the home business.   I've seen it all over the years:  the highs of a big check, disappointments, misunderstandings with friends and family over selling, rejection and more.  Thank goodness very little, but they can loom larger than life.  Then I often had the misgivings of my own abilities to grow the dream.  What dream, really?

Let's get back to you.   What do you (and I again) first need?  There are two things to decide on initially before any action.

Trust not your feelings, my friend; you must DECIDE to accept and  become an ENTREPRENEUR. 

"Entrepreneur" definition:

1. A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture.  (Catch that: there is risk.)
   
2. One who takes the initiative to create a product or establish a business for profit; generally, whoever undertakes on his own account an enterprise in which others are employed and risks are taken.
3. A person who organizes and operates a business venture and assumes much of the associated risk.

Secondly, one must decide to develop INTENT before taking action. 

"Intent" definition:   

1. The act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim.

We must cultivate and develop our mental intent.  This will take a little work to find the purpose of the venture and what to aim for.   Goals will change;  the dream will shift. But we can still aim in a direction.   Let's call out our hearts in the beginning.   Eventually the business will call and dictate the proper pathways. 

Can you accept your own mission?