Among your first steps towards starting a business should be determining if you really have the passion for the business you want to start. Your business start up is likely to need you to work more hours than you have, cost you more money than you thought and probably keep you from your family more than they will like. Faced with all kinds of anticipated and even more unexpected problems, It will be your passion that keeps you focused and plugging away to make the business a success. So if you don't own that passion for this business you are trying to start - reconsider!

I tell many clients that their passion for the business is the most important thing that they can bring to the business - Everything else we can teach them.