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You may be one of the thousands of corporate employees who yearn to break out and start a business , but just can’t get out of the mental rut also known as your all-consuming corporate job. Listen up, because we have three things you can do right now to get yourself mentally ramped up for starting your dream business.

Clear space in your schedule

Remove all of the extraneous activities from your life, inside and outside of your job. At work, diplomatically remove yourself from any committees, task forces or projects that take up a lot of time and don’t add significant value to your future career.

At home, take a good, hard look at your personal commitments (e.g. volunteer projects, homeowner committees and recreational activities), and decide if there are some that you can put on hold in order to carve out some hours for your dream endeavor – your business. You will need the extra time, temporarily or permanently, to devote to planning , research and reflection on your new venture.

That might sound a little drastic, but think about it – if you’ve written your Life Plan , you should already have a pretty good idea of what qualifies as a high priority in your life, and you should be able to evaluate your extracurricular activities based on that plan. If it’s not high on the priority list, then it’s standing in the way of your startup dreams!

Discuss the impending lifestyle change with your family

Hopefully you have created a Life Plan with input.

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