•Authority - Do they have authority - that is, do they have organizational power to make decision to buy your service or product, and, this is separate from having budget itself.

Step 7: Give serious thought and consideration to your budgetary constraints, projected expenses, expected income and how long you can "float" until your business is generating income on its own; work on developing your online (virtual) presence; purchase domain name(s).

Step 8: Develop a business plan, action plan or plan of action and review it often to manage company growth.

Step 9: Get all legal and financial areas in order prior to securing your first contract or client; examine your equipment, software and virtual office space for maximum productivity.

Step 10: Market your service(s) or product(s) at every opportunity; work on establishing yourself as an industry expert; start your marketing efforts locally.

After launching your virtual business, consider joining one to two professional organizations, they can be local and/or virtual, doing so will give you opportunity to network, build camaraderie, self confidence, and a personal support network.

Some artists suggest that it is their imagination that inspires them. The need to tell world what is going on in their heads. The links that they make. The different ways of viewing world. After all literature, music and visual arts are all about originator communicating with rest of us.

So inspiration appears to be linked with need to communicate with others. It may not be in words. But we feel it is about communication. What about you? What are you inspired to communicate?

Inspiration is linked to innovation. To introduce new ways of seeing things. Inspiration is a way of understanding essence of ourselves. Understanding who we are and what we dream about. Whatever it is that inspires you, it is core of your very being. So what is it?

Perhaps role of inspiration is to wake us up from a big sleep. A sleep where everyday is same. Where we contribute to world but at same time we don’t contribute because there is nothing of us in there. Perhaps role of inspiration is to get us to become involved with world rather than be a bystander, an observer.

This was definitely situation for Alice Foote MacDougall, an American Business woman before second world war. Like many of her era she was driven by her husband’s financial failure and necessity of supporting her three young children.

.. opportunity offered by life to women is far in excess of any offered to men. To be inspiration is more than to be tool. To create world, a greater thing than to reform it.

When we tap into whatever it is that inspires us we become a full member of society. We are able to share our ideas, thoughts and emotions. As we share and show our dreams, emotions and ideas and thoughts then we gradually become to understand person we truly are.

So, role of inspiration is more than we first thought. More that just a drive to action. It actually enables you to understand very essence of yourself and what you have to offer world.

Inspiration gives you understanding. Inspiration gives you an identity. Inspiration gives you a way of being.

Can you really live without knowing what inspires you?

Good luck

Graham and Julie. www.desktop-meditation.com