Focus

I'm finding it hard to focus.

The reason for that is the evidence of ambiguity in tasks, coupled with uncharted territory.

My plan is to create small actionable, achievable targets and check them off one by one. As cliche and easy as this sounds, it isn't. Staying on task in such a noisy world poses a challenge like no other.

Anyone interested in getting me these Bose Headphones?

Top 20 Entrepreneurial Quotes

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These quotes can change night from day. I copied these over to my blog to make sure to read them often -- truly inspirational.

1. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work - Thomas Edison, inventor and scientist
2. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary - Vidal Sassoon, entrepreneur
3. Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't - Anonymous
4. A good idea is ten percent implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent -€“ Guy Kawasaki, entrepreneur, investor, author
5. Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory - Mahatma Gandhi, political and spiritual leader
6. Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners - Robert T. Kiyosaki, author, entrepreneur, investor
7. Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence - Lisa M. Amos
8. Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life - John F. Kennedy, U.S. President
9. In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable - Dwight E. Eisenhower, U.S. President
10. The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place - Jim Rohn
11. Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them - Anonymous
12. Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make - Donald Trump, real estate and entertainment mogul
13. The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities -€“ Michael Gerber, author, entrepreneur
14. An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it - Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
15. The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer - Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's
16. I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful - Warren Buffet, investor and billionaire
17. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent - Thomas Edison, inventor and scientist
18. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover - Mark Twain, author
19. There is a tide in the affairs of men
    Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
    Omitted, all the voyage of their life
    Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
    On such a full sea are now afloat;
    And we must take the current when it serves,
    Or lose the ventures before us - William Shakespeare, author
20. Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration - Thomas Edison, inventor and scientist

starting a business

who: My roommate and I, we know null about starting a business
what: Electronics/Computer Fixing Company
when: Today/Now
where: Within our Building Complex
why: To learn how to start a business...and maintain it.

Many have told me that 'Beta, to start a business, you need to have that _idea_ and it has to be special and different from everyone else's idea.' I would absolutely agree --

if(you == everyone)
   you = Competition.outOfBusiness;

-- but would also argue and say that I'm not going to wait for that _idea_ to start learning how a business works.

Here's how we're starting:
1. Resource Allocation
2. Information Intake
3. Draft i of Business Plan
4. Discussions with others, amongst ourselves.
5. if(i != n) i++; goto 3; (repeat steps 3 and 4, 'n' times)

Resources we're using:

Small Business Association - http://www.sba.gov
 Are we ready?  - http://www.sba.gov/smallbusinessplanner/index.html

MoreBusiness -  http://www.morebusiness.com/
  Top 5 business plan mistakes - http://www.morebusiness.com/smarter_surveys
 3 Essential Elements of Operating a Successful Business -  http://www.morebusiness.com/operating-successful-business
 The Biggest Mistakes of Business Startups -  http://www.morebusiness.com/business-startups
 Building a Website - http://www.morebusiness.com/building-web-site
 Business Plans -  http://www.morebusiness.com/business-plans
  Closest to our plan - http://www.morebusiness.com/computer-consulting-business-plan

National Telecommunications & Information Administration
 Starting a Business Outline -  http://www.ntia.doc.gov/opadhome/mtdpweb/busplano.htm 

Bplans
   A wealth of resources to utilize during the process - http://www.bplans.com/st