The Road to a True Destination is Mile Stoned

I run a business. Sometimes I struggle with feeling legitimate. Anyone can print business cards, build a website (which I'm still working on), and have a business account at the bank. But at what point am I a legitimate entrepreneur? Is there a dollar figure, or staff size requirement?

I sell knowledge, ideas, and information. It's not like cutting hair or plastering walls. You walk out of a salon you know your hair is shorter. I know there's plaster on my walls because I've put holes through it and had to repair it before. But information can be tricky.

I have to assure people I know what I'm talking about, make them feel like I know what they're trying to say, and convince them my ideas are valid and worth their time and money. You try telling a musician that record deals don't work any more. Or a phtographer they need brand themselves as well as be amazing picture takers, and ask them to pay you for it.

A lot of people have dreams, dreams are not the same as vision. Vision comes with a passionate desire to see the thing come to fruition no matter what. I can't help those who have dreams; but if you have a vision we're in business. I can work with that.

With no vision man is unrestrained wandering aimlessly. The path does not lead us to the vision the path is determined by the vision. The path must be mile stoned by clear manageable goals. For the goals we cannot manage on our own there is a God.

j.