Great post, thanks, and these look like some books I need to be reading too – I’m going to add them to my (ever-growing) list.

I really agree with your idea about entrepreneurs and small business owners needing to have a vision, but that the plan sometimes can’t be stuck with. I am one for big blue sky visions (thinking bigger than I can possibly know how I’m going to get from here to there), and I think those kinds of visions are so important. Because they’re based on me, my core values, what I feel my life really should be about.

But I can be hopeless when it comes to making detailed plans about just how I’m going to implement/manifest that vision. So I do tend to take the suck-it-and-so, or go-with-the-flow approach sometimes.

As I’ve just got started on my own online business recently, that has kind of been borne out.

But on the other hand, I’ve also seen the value of having a proven system (I’m being mentored by some entrepreneurs who’ve already become succesful) to work from. That’s really helped me to keep a focus on doing the nitty-gritty day to day and not go off in visionary flights of fancy (as I have a habit of doing).

Thanks for prompting my own musings on this.

I spy some great recent posts on this blog (listed below as I type this) so I am off to bookmark you right now, I’ll be back! )

Thanks again & all the best,
Deb
Blogging about My First Dollar Online
http://www.onlineinfobiz.com

PS Do feel free to drop by my blog if you get a chance, I’d love to here your thoughts on what I’ve got up to so far (still *very* much a work in progress though!)

I am going to stick to the heading but not really the article.

Your really caught my attention with “Is small business ownership a career”.

Without a doubt it is, Owners of business (small) are striving to do there job as best as possible. They have chosen a career in their business.

The Oxford English Dictionary says one’s career is one’s “course or progress through life (or a distinct portion of life)”. As of 2006, the word usually only pertains to one’s remunerative work (and sometimes also formal education).

Thus the remuneration for work.

I am a small business owner and what I do is my career, I just choose to work for myself as oppose to someone else.

Having said that, I’ll take immediate action over long, drawn-out planning any day of the week and twice on Sunday.