Our-Discussion.jpg (719×935) Getting To Done: Roll Your Own Business - Lifehacker. By Keith Robinson "Bootstrapping", when it comes to starting your own business, refers to getting yourself up and running with as little outside help as possible. This means not borrowing much (if any) money, not taking on outside investment and relying solely on your own skills, money and efforts to get things done. It can be a hard row to hoe, and you can count on quite a few bumps along the way, but for certain types of businesses it can also be really attractive and the rewards can be amazing. As an entrepreneur that's right in the middle of bootstrapping my own business together, I've got a bit of experience and I'm learning more and more every day.
Make sure it's right. Before you set out to fund your own business you need to really think about if it's right for you. Have some money in the bank. Anytime you're going into business on your own you'll want to have some reserves saved up. Don't avoid risk. Great things don't come without some risk. Side gigs are good! Leverage your network. Where Will You Be in Five Years? - Amy Gallo - Best Practices. Task Boxes. Mind Sweep. Throughout the month of December, The Simple Dollar is posting a daily series focusing on specific activities you can do right now to set the stage for a great 2011. Out with the old, in with the new. 10. Do a mind sweep. Hot on the heels of the ongoing discussion of Making It All Work, I’m going to suggest a good old fashioned “mind sweep” as a brilliant way to get your financial and personal house in order to finish out the year. What’s a “Mind Sweep”?
Simply put, a “mind sweep” is a collection in one external place of all of the ongoing concerns in your life. Why is it such a big distraction? For starters, think about how your mind works when you’re focused on a task. More importantly, doing this makes you into a more reliable person. One of my own examples of a “forgotten” thing, for example, tends to be bills, mostly because many of them are billed electronically and some of them don’t let me know that they’re due.
Doing a Mind Sweep So, how do you actually go about this?