Getting started

Obviously there are a few things I need to do to accomplish my goals, which are:

1. Stop procrastinating - for godsake just write the bloody book and stop making notes about it.
Also under this heading I need to stop imagining the business I want as a fully developed set-up and actually order the stock I need to start. To be fair to myself the reason I have waffled about this for weeks now is that when your as skint as I am making a fairly huge financial investment in stock is a bit scary - also I don't want to mess up and order a load of stuff I'll never use just because it looks pretty or sounds fun to use (been there and done that).

2. Stop fretting about what people will say if I don't make a success of either career - let's face it after 30 years of talking about my unique talents (I stopped about 6 years ago), 10 years of study and a stupefying amount of student debts, if i don't pull an Anita Roddick or J.K. Rowling type sucess out of my arse nobody I know or I'm related to is going to be impressed

3. Stop googling other companies that are doing a similar thing to me - it's depressing, disheartening and a rubbish way to plan a website.

So I am all set: I have made a comprehensive list of the stock I will need - I have index carded my recipes, sorted out my testers, written up a questionnaire for them to fill in and I have cleared the cupboard under the stairs as a stock room.

So on Monday I am definitely calling that order in (I just need one more weekend in case there's something I have forgotten).

I have also brought new note books and opened a new folder on my computer marked BOOK! - So there's definitely no going back now.