make a success of my business

My business is a total failure. I am not sorry that I at least tried to start my own business because I have learnt a lot.

I haven’t completely given up on having a successful business. I am going to get a job again for about 2 to 3 years so that I can gain more experience. I will use the time to think about what I did wrong and I will make a new business plan from the experience I have gained. My new job will also give me new ideas for products to sell.

Everyone knows about how Thomas Edison failed hundreds of times when he was trying to invent the light bulb. If he hadn’t failed all those times then he wouldn’t have been able to finally succeed.

Things have not turned out the way I thought they would when I was planning my business. I have only made a tiny bit of money from my website and I haven’t sold any of my software at all.

I have started to think about getting a job again. I could be earning a lot of money right now if I had a job. I don’t want to give up but I don’t know what to do because I don’t have any experience with running a business. I am worried that my parents are going to kick me out of the house and then I will be stuck working a normal job for the rest of my life.

The good news is that I have gotten over my depression for now. I have started working again and I have found some inspiration to get some work done.

For the last 2 weeks I haven’t managed to get much work done. I feel very depressed about my life and it made me not feel like doing any work. This is obviously bad news for the success of my business.

One thing that really makes me depressed is that I have not made any money since I started and I haven’t had any luck selling my software. I am scared of the idea of selling my software to people because I am not all that good at dealing with people and I am worried about screwing up.

I originally planned to finish the basic version of the program I am making in 3 months and it has now been 3 months and I have actually achieved it. I find it very interesting that I have managed to stick to the plan I created so closely because people in the software development industry know how easy it is to go over a deadline.

I am now going to start on my next project which is a bit smaller and should only take about a month. I will still be working on the old project while I am working on the new one.

I also have another project that I am working on for a friend. I have had a hard time getting much done on that one.

I have had a hard time getting my work done, especially in the afternoons. I procrastinate before starting to work in the mornings and then I always stop working a few minutes early before lunch. After lunch I tend to lie down on my bed and sleep for the whole afternoon a lot the time.

The good news is that even though I haven’t been working that hard, my product is almost ready to sell. I plan on releasing the first version by the end of this month.

My friend heard about me starting my own business and contacted me regarding a program that he needs made. We met and discussed the requirements and decided to go ahead with the project. He is officially my first customer.

my communications/media firm is small and good, need to make it better and better.

I came across a problem while I was doing my usual programming work. I decided to totally redo the piece of code that was causing the problem and reimplement it. Not only did I get rid of the error but I sped my program up by over 600%.

That kind of creativity in problem solving was not allowed where I used to work. If I had had the same problem there I would’ve been expected to do some crazy inefficient work around rather than take a chance with improving it.

I love the fact that I can make my own decisions now on how the program should work. Working for someone else puts restrictions on you which stops you from getting things done in the best way possible.

Got mail today, for White Rabbit Photo! My first junk mail for the business…

sigh

I have been running my own business working from home for about 3 weeks now. I am surprised by the fact that I am actually getting a lot of work done.

There are a few problems. My family is causing me all sorts of distractions and I got nothing done for 2 days this past week because of them.

I got my first cheque for R2000 which is almost nothing but it is a nice start.