Are you planning to start your own small business? Do you hate your job and dream of being your own boss? How hard can it be? These 5 questions are vital to ask yourself. You are the best mechanic, IT geek, baker, cleaner or candle stick maker in town. All your friends think you are a genius. They don't even know why you haven't done it sooner. Or I got a redundancy payout from the public service or the bank or left the armed services. Time to take control of your time and be your own man. What better back ground for a small business owner than coming out of a large corporation, public service or the military?  Here are the five vital questions to ask yourself before you take the leap of faith and start your own business. 1) Why do you want to run your own business? The stronger the reason the greater the emotional drive. If you are planning to run a cleaning business to make a bit extra cash to supplement your day job is very different to wanting to grow a bu

  Are you currently battling with effectively balancing your family and business life? Are you working when you should be with your family? Maybe you are struggling with changes to your business and family life balance ? Maybe you lay awake at night “ freaking out” from nightmares about what may happen to your business if you don’t go into the office on Saturday? Do you break out in a sweat whenever a friend simply raises the subject that perhaps, you should consider changing your work pattern? Or, perhaps your partner makes plans to go out to dinner and a show, but you are always too late at work? If the above describes you, you just might have a problem that needs to be addressed. There are 2 very different drivers behind these behaviors: 1)       The Workaholic 2)       The Just Too Scared to Stop Running   Workaholic: A person who compulsively works excessively hard and long hours   Firstly, what is a workaholic ? The definition – “ A person who co