Back to the Drawing Board?

Well, not everything went according to plan today. This morning when I woke up and reexamined my great mission statement, I noticed one problem: I hated it. I completely hated the final sentence, I wanted to change a bunch of the words and completely wanted to change the tone of the statement. Unfortunately for you, my business blog today is going to be a rant about my indecisiveness.

While driving into work this morning and while driving home this evening, I must have come up with about eight more mission statements, all of them seemingly better than what I had when I woke up this morning. About an hour after I got home, a funny thing happened - I looked at my original mission statement and fell back in love with it.

I think my problem (and what ultimately may end up being my downfall) is the fact that I love to over analyze things. Even when I have something that I know is pretty solid, I'll sit there and poke and prod until I find something that can be changed, even if it's only slightly.

Thankfully, this time it appears that I was able to come to my senses and quickly realize that the statement that I had originally come up with was a very good starting point and didn't need wholesale change, just a few tweaks.

So, now I guess my business partner and I can turn our attention to naming our business, so I can stop calling it "the business idea" and start calling it "the business." I'm sure we'll come up with a great idea, I'll sleep on it and wake up the next morning only to hate it.

On the optimistic side, I think we're only a day or two away from unveiling our business idea, name and mission statement.