Small Business Owner, Entrepreneur Or Dreamer? What Is Your Status?




2010 is almost 1/2 way completed. Where do you stand regarding reaching the goals you set for yourself in 2010? Where do you have to go to reach your goals?  The first part of trying to figure out where we are going is determining where we are. 

What is your status?  In Facebook and Twitter we want to tell others of our status in our personal life, but do we tell others or even really tell ourselves what our professional, business or financial status really is.  Are you happy with your status?  Are you better off this year than last year?  Did you start that business you wanted to start, get a new job, buy a business, sell a business, retire… ? It is said when planning  “How do you know if you got there if you dont know where you were going.”   But preceding this above-mentioned planning tenet is the need to know where you are starting from. A person wanting to start a business or buy a business and has $1,000,000 in the bank will plan to start or buy that business different than a student that just graduated from college and owes $40,000 in college loans and $0 in the bank.  It’s always a good time to plan ahead – We’re 1/2 way thru 2010.  What is your status?

  1. Working for a wonderful boss and company and love my job.
  2. Own my own business and business is good and look forward to continuing my success.
  3. Own a struggling business and barely hanging on. Want to sell my business and do something else.
  4. Retired, happy, plenty of financial resources.
  5. Retired, very little money, thinking I need to get a part-time job.
  6. Just getting out of college worried that I cant find a job.
  7. Working in a dead end job, want to quit and start my own business.
  8. Want to start my own business but have no money to do so, nor know how to get such money.
  9. Working in a job I hate want to find another job.
  10. Have a great idea for a new business but too afraid to take the next step.
  11. Own a successful business thinking about selling it to pursue other business challenges.
  12. Work from home a few hours a week and make more than enough money to live and do what I want.  Is this anyone’s status?
  13. Hate my job, hate my boss, hate my commute, underpaid, just want to scream!
  14. Sold my business made lots of money but starting a new business.
  15. In business with family or friend, and now hate my family or friend.
  16. Have a friend that is making a lot of money on the internet, I want to try same,  but don’t think I have the time.
  17. Just got laid off my job.
  18. Been out of work for 6-12 months and no good prospects.
  19. Want to sell my business but don’t think now is a good time to do that.
  20. Nothing is going well for me but today – will make changes to improve my status.
  21. My status????   IT’S COMPLICATED.

      

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About the author:
Scott M. Messinger is a former and current business owner that has directly purchased multiple businesses to support organic growth. Former owner of successful production / manufacturing / distribution business of 20 years that was successfully sold /transitioned. Member of Business Brokerage Solutions LLC w/ offices in Ft.Myers and Jacksonville FL and member of the Business Broker of Florida Assn. (BBF)Background experiences includes the fields of management, water, energy savings, mrktng
My website is at: http://www.sellabusinessflorida.com


  

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