In Business for Yourself

We start our working life pleased that we have obtained employment with some large enterprise that has recognised our talents! We apply ourselves with energy and loyalty to making our mark in and on that organisation.

We manoeuvre for promotion and even make judicious changes of employer to further our climb up the ladder of success.

Then after 10 or 15 years we begin to have doubts. We find that organisational confusion, indecision and short-sightedness are the norm. As we have gained some position of authority we find ourselves sometimes having to justify decisions we don’t agree with. This becomes a major source of stress to middle management in middle life.

Working in a demanding organisation is like being a ‘hot house plant’. You come to believe that you cannot exist outside. You know that there is the possibility of working for yourself or starting your own business, but doubt if that is possible for you.

I spent year’s climbing the ladder of success, only to find it was leaning against the wrong wall. You know you have substantial financial responsibilities; a mortgage, children, maybe in private education and a lifestyle image to keep up. Maybe you have significant debts which would prevent you getting borrowing facilities for a business venture, as well as taking a significant part of your disposable income.

You know that the failure rate for new businesses in the first five years is four out of five!

You may know that running a business of your own requires a wide range of skills and you have only a few of them and could not afford pay someone else to do the others for you.

You know that the failure rate for new businesses in the first five years is four out of five!

For all these reasons you convince yourself you have no choice and return to the ‘hot house’.

But what if there were other possibilities and ways of moving from the demands of working in the corporate world to working for yourself.

A different wall

A few decades ago starting your own business usually required significant capital investment and long term commitments like premises and staff. It also usually meant giving up the ‘day job’. This required you to plunge into a period of living on your savings and the hope that you could generate enough business to support yourself before the money ran out.

Today everything is different. There are many other options and many sources of help and advice. Even the government tries to help business start-ups in its clumsy and poorly directed way!

It may be that you are overwhelmed with choice and wonder how well the work skills you have accumulated can be applied outside the ‘hothouse’.

Finding the right business for you and planning the journey to get there is difficult to do on your own. This is the help that Positive Input can provide with its team of Mentors, Experts and Advisors.

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