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All Forum Posts by: Annette A.

Annette A. has started 22 posts and replied 264 times.

Post: swimming up river against the crowd- negative people surround me

Annette A.Posted
  • Waterville, ME
  • Posts 269
  • Votes 53

Some days i wake up and have to encourage myself in my goal; I must admit i have lost some of the omph' but i am continuing to plug away to accomplish this goal.

(some days every body around is so negative its hard not to let them effect me- but I AM PUSHING FORWARD regardless of those around me. I KNOW a good thing and i AM a visionary. I have faced the fact that I AM not like everybody else around me in their thinking and they dont understand me. So I must find positive connections of others that get it.)

today is one of those days... I wonder why i bother? Its like fighting to swim up river against a school of ??  bumping and pushing... trying to get somewhere different then the way they are trying to pull me. (sigh)

Does anybody else here hear what i am saying? Have yoooooou, do you feel this way at times? 

Post: Inertia: Getting the ball rolling (NEWBIES)

Annette A.Posted
  • Waterville, ME
  • Posts 269
  • Votes 53

i am still plugging away at the two tedious things. at this point it is just more of the same... updating my accounting program, and working on my business plan. 

My goal is to be done with them by the first of the year; and to be able to apply for that business loan and have the property by the end of Jan 2016. 

I must admit i have lost some of the omph' but i am continueing to plug away to accomplish this goal. (sometimes every body around you is so negative its hard not to let them effect you- but I AM PUSHING FORWARD regardless of those around me. I KNOW a good thing and i AM a visionary. I have faced the fact that I AM not like everybody else around me in their thinking and they dont understand me. So I must find positive  connections of others that get it.)

one step- keep going forward and the Mt will be conquered. :D Keep pressing on to your goals.

Post: Inertia: Getting the ball rolling (NEWBIES)

Annette A.Posted
  • Waterville, ME
  • Posts 269
  • Votes 53

Today, what "CAN" i do to reach my goals? 

#1 business

  • work on business plan
  • go to accountants office to talk to a person about what i need done, set up apointment
  • dispute some things on my credit report that are old.

#2 my land development idea

  • (still need to talk to code officer again and possible a planning commity) cant do anything today, so back to back burner for Monday.

#3 farmland i want

  • (#1 will help this fall into place) there is no hurry as the person isnt ready to sell until spring, but I can do a loan pre approval this coming week. so for now nothing CAN be done so i focus on #1 ) 

so BUSINESS PLAN.... i need to get this done so i can apply for a loan and move forward, but i really REALLY need an accountant to move forward with this.

KEEP MOVING... 

Post: Inertia: Getting the ball rolling (NEWBIES)

Annette A.Posted
  • Waterville, ME
  • Posts 269
  • Votes 53

another day- had the wind knocked out of me today by a phone call to a second accountanting firm. It appears they did not match me up with a right fit. She had no idea. ... and needless to say i still have no accountant. I NEED an accountant to get my taxes figured out  before i get in to deep.

anway today... i made that call, and it was just so... eeerrr. it knocked the wind out of my sails.  Tomo rrow is anther day. 

PRESS IN and MOVE forward.

I DID work on my business plan and I DO have an attorney apointment set up to INC. my business. business plan is moving along. :D

What did you do today? what steps did you take to get to your vision?

Post: Inertia: Getting the ball rolling (NEWBIES)

Annette A.Posted
  • Waterville, ME
  • Posts 269
  • Votes 53

TODAY to 'DO'- What 'CAN' I do today?

i know this is tedious but that is part if the process to making it a habit. Do it daily, then it becomes a part of you.

today-

  • i have an apt at 2:30 (another brain to help me flesh out my first business plan) 
  • NOTE: APT with ATT on Dec 1st with Attorney
  • still working on quickbooks and updating info

Post: Inertia: Getting the ball rolling (NEWBIES)

Annette A.Posted
  • Waterville, ME
  • Posts 269
  • Votes 53

REMEMBER: "my goal" in all this is to establish my business to then be able to develop another pc of land i have with a potential 4-8 units on 4 seperate lots; or to develop a VR short term rental witha a tiny house community. ( one or the other depending on the stringent or not town code- which i am trying to find out if I can do the tiny community development cause the are is PERFECT! ) the exit will be worth a retirement plan- to live on.

and then that development will help lounch the farm/ idea- with its cabins near the ski resorts. So My #1 goal in establishing my wild plant business is in escense the fondation of growing more.  So alot is riding on this "business plan" that needs to get a bank loan for about $30000 to increase business with more marketing, and product.

Post: Inertia: Getting the ball rolling (NEWBIES)

Annette A.Posted
  • Waterville, ME
  • Posts 269
  • Votes 53

GOT IT DONE. i called the attorney and have an apt set up. I shall be inc. by first of the new year. :D yeah!! 

I did some more bus. plan.. but i dont feel like i am getting anywhere- but i keep plugging away.

Post: Inertia: Getting the ball rolling (NEWBIES)

Annette A.Posted
  • Waterville, ME
  • Posts 269
  • Votes 53

TODAY,  what 'CAN' i do? 

My BIGGEST thing i NEED to work on is my business plan. It has me stumped cause i am looking at the overall aspect of the project. UGH. i think. so i need to break it down into pieces and just look at that one piece at a time and put that together.  

the other thing is i think i am over thinking it and making it more complicated then it has to be to accompllish what i want it to. I dont think it neds to be all that complicated, or even very page. 

I write this, cause sometimes we get like stuck in the mud... I found i lost my oomph for a few days... now i see i am stuck and why i am stuck. I am over analyazing and making it bigger issue then it is; and i need to break this one project down into managable size and work with that one small piece. I 'CAN' manage that. I shall pick one part that project- for me its writing up a business plan- so i will focus on one piece today. 

I will get back with you later and let you know if i DID it and accomplished one piece. 

I am also going to CALL THAT Attorney TODAY and set up a meeting for INc the LLC. I SHALL stop putting it off for another day. today is the time to DO.

Post: Inertia: Getting the ball rolling (NEWBIES)

Annette A.Posted
  • Waterville, ME
  • Posts 269
  • Votes 53

Today I DID get some more quickbooks caught up and worked on business plan... and 

I FORGOT about the code officer hours. He keeps strange hours- 1 day a week at 6pm-9pm. and he is only open ONE day a week... UGH> so it gets moved to NEXT monday- again. 

In the mean time i have set up an apt today, for Wen. with small business counselor who is going to help me pull together my business plan. 

Post: Inertia: Getting the ball rolling (NEWBIES)

Annette A.Posted
  • Waterville, ME
  • Posts 269
  • Votes 53

Today- what am i going to "DO"?

dream #1- wild plant business

-call attorney ( start Incoporation process and trademark slogan)

-work on updating my new quickbook files

-work on business plan

#2- VR tiny house development

- code officer is in office this evening- go pay him a visit and get some more answers and direction if need. (NOTE: to self- DONT MISS IT THIS WEEK) 

#3- organic farm i want

- ck loan option for pre ap.