The first is your window. Twelve weeks, with a start date and an end date, both written where you will see them. Evenings and weekends only, because the whole point is that it costs you nothing you can't afford and risks nothing you need.

From I Want to Start a Business but I Can't Quit My Job, chapter 9: Do not leap. overlap.

You answered for the money and nothing else. Then run it again with the salary held identical on both sides, which is how the question was built. If the answer changes, the money was never the reason, and you've been handing people an explanation that isn't the explanation.

From I Want to Start a Business but I Can't Quit My Job, chapter 7: Why you have not decided already

These passages come straight from the books. So, if one of them speaks to you, read the full chapter. It goes further, and it ends with a practical exercise.

In addition, these titles look at home business ideas from different angles. Each one opens with a passage from the book. Then, pick the one closest to your situation.

• Get Paid Before You Spend a Cent
• The First Dollar: Get Paid Before You Spend a Cent
• Why You Will Price Too Low: Get Paid Before You Spend a Cent
• I Want to Start a Business
• The Data That Destroys the "Need Money" Myth: Get Paid Before You Spend a Cent
• The Bird in Hand: You Already Have What You Need: Get Paid Before You Spend a Cent
• The Float: How to Get Paid Before You Pay: Get Paid Before You Spend a Cent
• The Employed Entrepreneur: How to Test a Business Without Losing Your Job

Enter four numbers from your real month, in any currency. The check shows how long your savings would last and whether the business can carry you yet.

What you need to live each month

Savings you could actually use

What the business earns each month (0 if nothing yet)

Has a stranger already paid you for it?

YesNo

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Finally, I Want to Start a Business but I Can't Quit My Job goes deeper into home business ideas. Therefore, it is the natural next step. You can read it or listen to it in the stores below. It is also available in 19 languages.

Go to the book page. All topics.

• How to start a business.Diego Segura's books begin somewhere else: with a small test you can run this week, a first paying customer, and costs kept close to zero.
• Business ideas.Lists of business ideas are everywhere, but a list can't tell you which idea fits you.
• Online business ideas.Online business ideas look easy because the tools are cheap.
• Low risk business ideas.These passages show how to limit the downside, so that fear doesn't decide for you.