Many pundits claimed that without a business plan, you are planning to fail. Yet others ignored business plan. Those walking down the middle avocate a short plan.
Over the years I had learnt to stop worrying about details but to let the details work their way out.
It is not to say planning isn’t important, it is. It is about not getting bogged down by details, unknowns, over planning. All these can actually lead to inactivity. Oftentime things will work the details out itself but only if you get it started in the first place.
Take the recent example of our new office. We had wanted to have a bigger office because the current one is pretty cramp and we would also like to have a meeting room. At the same time it is an option to expand, we had moved offices many time as a result of space and it would be nice to preempt that.
Well, chance has it that the floor above us became available and presented itself to us. We went wildly excited but at the same time went through our accounts and worried about the sustainability. There were many unknowns and we started discussing many “what-if” scenarios figured our current cash can only sustain another 2 months.
It is a good thing that the property is hot and we had to act fast. There isn’t enough time for us to figure out every possible scenarios. So we decided to go ahead and rent it.
The deposit was paid on Friday. Making that decision had actually led us to focus on how to make it happen instead of worrying about why it would not happen.
We are talking to a few entrepreneurs that are interested to share the office with us and use the meeting room facilities (In fact we now have plenty of space because we decided to keep the existing office as well). We are also planning ahead when the office is ready so that we can expand and grow our business.
All these activities would not happen if we just stood there and worry.
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