No, that’s not really the name I chose, but it should have been if you know me at all!
Yes, I bowed to the Man, and am fully planning to register a Closed Corporation. It’s basically a “lite” company, in the sense that it also protects me as an individual, but is not as heavily regulated as a “normal” company would be in terms of financial reporting and other business activities. It’s also relatively cheap to start, as it doesn’t need reams of incorporation documents.
What it will do, is help me get into Botswana more easily, and also to do business there and even here in South Africa. It is a sad truth that businesses take other businesses more seriously than they do individuals.
This move also means that I shall have to create a formal business plan for Agterplaas after all, as I might need to woo venture capitalists into investing their Big Money into my idea. It will be on my terms, though, and hopefully not EVER necessary. I would definitely need a CV for yours charmingly, to attach to the incorporation documents.
AND
it also means that I will need to engage in business activities and generate an income right from the bat, to employ a cricket term.
So…
It will therefore be in my very best interests to take beekeeping and aquaponics management courses (for commercial purposes) in the time between my resignation and my pension money becoming available so that I can purchase the necessary equipment from the beginning and have it installed as soon as I have closed on the property that I plan to work from.
Cash flow will be crucial, and not only because Mr. Robert Kiyosaki says so. Unfortunately, time will also be of the essence, as any income-generating processes will have to be installed and set in motion right away. No rest for the wicked? Well, it seems that hooligans won’t get any rest, either! I have set myself a year to get up and running properly, but – like the GPS “arrival time” – this is a target that I would definitely need to beat.
The soap workshop will be most likely be operational before anything else is, and I have a sneaky suspicion that any skill I may have thought I could have needed, will be called into play. From manual labor to marketing and bartering and selling stuff, in general, to keeping all the records that I never thought I would have needed to keep.
“They” say that if a goal doesn’t scare you, it isn’t big enough. Well, this is the biggest, hairiest, most audacious idea I have ever had, so if this doesn’t scare me, I have absolutely no idea what will. I am scared sh…less!!!
That said, I also know that I can make a success of this goal. I need the challenge, frankly. And this will definitely fit THAT bill.
Big challenge. With faith, luck, and lots of blood, sweat, and tears, also massive rewards.