The beginnings of my business

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Hi. I am supposed to be learning about blogging. I wish I had known about blogging when I was traveling. It would have been a fun way to keep in touch. And brag, of course. Someday I might get into some more personal blogs about my life. Heaven knows I have a few good stories to tell. Come to think of it, hell is probably aware of a few as well. I was told, back in my traveling days, that I should write a book. Comedy. Then my life took a wicked turn and even more people told me I should write a book. Tragedy. The most recent story that would be book-worthy, is more of a Tragic-Comedy. But for now, I am going to focus on blogging about my new business. How I got the idea for the business, well that is a different blog. The Tragic-Comedy one. The point is, life circumstances have led me to this point, and this is where this particular story begins. Back in March, when I started studying at Sprott-Shaw; my intention being to gain skills to somehow work in tourism. I love to travel. At least I used to. Now I’m just as content to stay at home. Considering that I live on a beautiful island in the Pacific, in the most beautiful area of the country, it almost feels like a permanent holiday. Top that off with the fact that I live in the bush, in my motorhome, I’m full time glamping. How does it get any better than this? As I was saying, my goal was tourism, in some way shape or form. How I ended up in Business Management is beyond me. It wasn’t my intention. I got talked into it by a complete stranger. I really need to stop taking the advice of strangers. Anyway. One day, my teacher, Susan, asked us to invent a pretend business for a project where we would have to write up business proposals and such. I chose a real pretend business that I once thought was a real real business. I suppose I was being passive aggressive in my bubble without anyone even being aware of it. After I described the pretend product to Susan and the class, she encouraged me by saying it was an awesome idea that I should pursue. Since I had already been toying with the thought, the encouragement was the push I needed to really start thinking about turning it into a real real company. I started looking at old paperwork, trying to decipher what was fake and what was real. I did a bit of online research and found some clues. I built onto those clues, and have started adding my own twist to the original product. Now I am knee deep in it, and to be honest I am terrified. What do I know about running a business? Better yet, what do I know about STARTING a business from scratch? Most of my real finances were chewed up last year in the real pretend company. What do I have left to work with? I decided to just go with it for now. If it is meant to be, the financing will somehow become available. I’m not saying I will rely solely on prayers, but that is certainly a big part of the plan. Kismet. Oh crap, what am I getting myself into??