Entreprenuer Block

My Entrepreneur block is spilling over into many aspects of my life…I didn’t write a content blog article last week, I haven’t unpacked a suitcase from a weekend trip, there are no dish towels left in the kitchen drawer and I’m currently typing while sitting in bed in my PJs…uh, oh this could be bad.

So what is entrepreneur block?  And how did this happen?  Well my business is up and running and while my web dev guys are still tweaking the homepage to be all that it can be, it’s functional and I think, pretty good.

Also, I know where I want to take this business.  I know what my next milestone is.  I’m just blocked with exactly how to get there.  You see there are multiple roads I can take but I want to take the smart, informed, well thought through road.  And this is where my block comes in.  I’m just not sure where to go first.  And my self-imposed deadline is late summer to get there so I have some time.  Thus block…or procrastination…or incubation, whichever term suits my mood at the time.

The other portion of my block, is that I was trying to be proactive about this…I saw it coming on, I wanted to stave it off.  I think I need a mentor, someone who has been there, done that, taken the leaps, had the falls, picked themselves up, dusted themself off and tried again.  But where can I find this mentor?

First I turned to online.  The Downtown Women’s club is a great organization and it has an online mentoring social network.   So I asked the question if anyone had tried SCORE.org for mentoring…and time went by…and I made an appt. with SCORE and then finally someone answered my question…then I had the appt. and then someone else answered my question.  The answers were helpful but not timely enough.  And I really would like to see my mentor face-to-face sometimes.

I’ve always been intrigued by SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives).  What a great idea, retired executives that want to help fledgling business owners.  They get to keep their minds sharp and their experience and wisdom helps others. So I signed up and made an appointment.  I was very excited to meet the former business leaders who can help me out.  Now I think SCORE is great.  It’s just that I have an online business and after my initial meeting, I’m not sure they’re the right organization for me.  I also have to say, it felt very institutional to sit in an office above the social security office and next to the passport office.  The space did not feel like a hotbed of startup incubation – which of course it is not.

I’m having lunch tomorrow with a very good friend who is smart and a great critical thinker.  She is and will continue to be one of my mentors.  And she tells it to me straight (even when I don’t want to hear it straight).  Hopefully she will unblock me, at least for the moment or maybe point me in the right direction to find a mentor.  She’ll definitely have no use for my whining about this subject…and just that alone may be the kick I need to become unblocked.