Fear to Startup

 I have been sitting on an idea for the last year but unable to even write the business plan or pitch, let alone start the business itself. I know other people in the meantime who have thought of an idea, started businesses, switched jobs etc.

I did do a little consulting and tried to create something of my own but gave up when I got a stable job. There were multiple excuses I gave including saying, I love my life a lot so don't want to start a business, I like the steady pay check, I want the PNL to be someone else's responsibility. Well besides the steady pay check, I have been handling the budgets over the last three years and I barely have had time for life. Besides the external bit of handling the press and government, I have been running most of the organisation (The research directors have been in and out) and I have loved it every moment. 

The high of creating the strategy, the elation when plans succeed and you get good feedback , managing a team and ensuring they survive and a lot more besides that. Cannot say it has been easy but think it has set me up to start thinking of running my organisation. There is still a fear. 

A fear that I will not succeed, a fear that my idea is not that great , a fear that I will fall flat on my face and not have a backup plan. So what can I do to face this fear of starting up because now I have no choice. Lets go with baby steps, 

1. Write the business plan 

2. Parallel talk to some senior leaders about the idea

See where 2 goes and then create a fund plan because I am doing this if the idea has merit, don't think I want to do the grind of the job again. Its time to be my own boss and stop being scared.