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DQ News: Help! I Have Too Many Business Ideas!

A reader asked:

I have so many ideas for businesses that I don’t really know which one to start first? Everytime I start something, I get distracted by a new business idea. Help! What do I do?

If your answer to the question “What kind of business are you going to start?” is something like “I’m not sure yet. I have a few different ideas…” stop immediately and pick one.

Hedging your bets by thinking about and playing around with a variety of different ideas is a huge waste of energy – you need all of your focus on the one thing you are going to do, because you need to do it extremely well!

Well, readers, how’d I do? Think you can answer this question better than I did? Respond in the comments.

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