“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
Lao-tzu (604 BC – 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu
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First, I need to define what I’m going to do with writing this book on home based business – rather, what I *intend* to do. The distinction is important, firstly because a declared intention is stronger than a statement of what will happen, secondly because what I actually do may vary, for perfectly good reasons, from what I currently see myself as doing.

And I just figured out that although it is my intention for this blog to chronicle the development of the book and any related outcomes, I will not actually write the book as part of the public blog. I realise that, sadly, there are people with little or no imagination and less morality who would have no compunction in taking my work and badging it as their own. So I’ll develop the book offline and blog the process here, hopefully with some linking to great resources I find or re-find along the way.

Having decided today to get on with writing an e-book on home based business building, I started to find excuses for not getting started. Then I started to question whether I should be doing this, whether I had anything worth saying, etc etc – the old writer’s block. I recalled something I’d heard the other day about Rudyard Kipling’s “six honest serving-men” that apparently helped him get writing.

I looked up the reference and found this from “The Elephant’s Child”: I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. So now I have no excuse!