the 'taking the leap' study guide

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study guide: for when you’re ready to take a leap
So you've graduated from our first study guide ("Help, I'm having an existential crisis and my life feels like a badly written Choose Your Own Adventure book") and now you've entered Phase Two: "I have an idea and I'm pretty sure it's either genius or delusional, but I'm going to find out one way or another."
Congratulations! This is actually gorgeous progress, starbeam. You've successfully evolved from "What should I do with my life?" to "I know what I want to do but HOW DO I DO THE THING without accidentally creating a dumpster fire that can be seen from space?"
This is the study guide for people who're now standing at the edge of the cliff, ready to take a leap of faith.
Maybe you've been carrying this idea around like Gollum with the One Ring—precious, obsessive, and slightly concerning to your friends and family. Maybe you've Googled "how to start a business" so many times that your laptop has started suggesting business schools. Maybe you've made seventeen different vision boards and you’ve filled a year’s worth of Moleskines with your plottings.
Either way, you're here because you've got something you want to birth into the world, and you'd prefer to do it without completely embarrassing yourself or accidentally creating the next Fyre Festival of whatever industry you're entering.
This is a study guide for someone who is about to take the leap
This is for you if:
* You've got an idea for a business that you've thought through approximately 847 times, but when it comes to actually executing, you wish you could just Google "how do I start a business for people who are excellent at overthinking everything" and get a reliable step-by-step guide that doesn't make you want to take a nap.
* You know where you're starting, you know where you want to end up (rich and famous, or at least financially stable and emotionally fulfilled), but you're feeling very very uncertain about those pesky in-between steps. You know, The Journey. The part where things actually have to happen in the real world with real consequences.
* You feel paralyzed by the idea of wanting to "do things right.” You have a general feeling that this idea is Important with a capital I, and that it's vital to get the foundation right. But you also suspect you have about as much business experience as a golden retriever, which is to say: enthusiastic but probably not qualified to make major strategic decisions. [On that note, consider this my formal petition for someone to write an Air Bud sequel that involves Bud having to step into the wingtip shoes of a Fortune 500 CEO]
* You've stopped and started this project 57 times already, but when it comes to your idea, you're basically in a toxic relationship. "I just can't quit you," you whisper to your business plan at 3 AM, no matter how many times it has disappointed you or made you question your life choices.
* You...