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Have you seen movies of the Wright brothers first flight. They didn't push their aircraft off a cliff to test it. Their first test was in a situation where failure would not likely have been fatal. However it did prove the concept was viable.Starting a business is much the same. Try to minimize the consequences of any single mistake, while at the same time learning a valuable lesson or proving the concept. See the bootstrapping thread for a lively discussion on that concept. Doing something as simple as buying something undervalued at a local garage sale (negotiating down from the asking price) and reselling it on eBay is a good first step. You'll learn the skill of negotiating, properly account for the expenses and revenue (go ahead and use inexpensive small business software, overkill, but another lesson learned). Some people actually make a living doing that. Do what you must to take the pressure off and still move in the desired direction. You talk about your last job like it's the only one around. Find one that affords the time to think, plan and begin your business while still supporting yourself. I'm not trying to discourage you from starting your business. It's just that I'd much rather see you soaring on your new found wings, than lying in a pile of wreckage at the bottom of a cliff.Moreover,one of the most tricky little suckers to define is that word Comfort! I went through a number of years with a bad definition, having thought I'd arrived at the right one. (Dictionaries aren't any help at all with words like this.)Comfort is a zero point on a scale of both positive and negative "numbers." These metaphorical numbers are values we assign, for the most part almost unconsciously, to experience. To clarify, I'll use a money metaphor.If you spend money and owe people future money, you're in the negative numbers. You're in debt. Then you get money and start paying debt. At some point you've paid off all your debt. At that point, no, you don't have money! You're broke! You have zero money, BUT you also have zero debt.If you continue to gain money, you can spend at the same rate as you earn, holding to a zero balance, but having all your bills paid and your daily needs met. However, you can earn more than you spend, choose not to waste it, then put some of the extra into a savings account. Only then do you have money. ("Have" in the sense that it's not going out the door in the next day or so.)To break apart the metaphor, "debt" is on the way to death, moving down through irritation, annoyance, nervousness, stress, anxiety, worry, fear, panic, numbness, depression, and suicide. It's a pain function, not a pleasure function.'Savings" is at the positive polarity of the scale, moving toward joy. Happiness is a transient event, as you reach milestones and goals. So if you're in massive debt, then pay off your debt, you can be happy, but that's not the same "kind" of happiness as a windfall profit from an investment. Joy is static, and momentary, but speaks to experiencing the ideal. So there's living, then there's the Joy of life.In the middle, right at the zero point we have Comfort. It's very closely related to Apathy. Comfort is where you're not experiencing any pain or painful life events, but neither are you experiencing any pleasure events. It's a cessation of pain, before the introduction of pleasure. (Apathy is where you don't care whether you're experiencing pain or pleasure.)A recent experiment with rats, I can't remember the source but could look it up, demonstrated that when rats had a comfortable life, they died earlier than those that had stresses and incentives in life. The logical conclusion, borne out by history, is that being too comfortable leads to being fat and lazy, bored and "content" but not happy.If you're in a discomfort or uncomfortable situation, it's only that you've gotten tired of sitting at the zero point. The remaining and more important question is what you consider to be the "purpose of life."

I do believe that despite the fact that there's a big competition in the world of Web designing business firm but I do believe also that there's still a lot of opportunities out there.Web Designing is still in demand in the market especially in all sides of businesses today. The only thing need to highly developed is the skills on "business" matters. You should know some business tricks, business strategies and the whole thing and the whole game of business.And like what other business firm, you need to consider how you gain and win the business you want. Some of which are the following:1. Passion - it means, before you venture to any kind of business you need to know and sense your passion. In short, you should know and loved what you will be doing.2. Dedication - set your goal and purpose. You must know what do you want to do or archieved.3. Focus - keep your eye on the dough not on the hole.With regards to competition, just think of it that, competition is always there wherever you go and wherever you are but the thing is just do what you believe you can do it. :PCheers!

One thing more,You have to find your passion, your big WHy in order to establish a business. There are many affiliate programs you can join for free to get your feet wet, but you will still have to learn about marketing and advertising, so you are not loosing money. Your aim is to be cashflow positive, not bankrupt in 6 months. Belief me, I have seen many people come and go in the Network marketing Industry and about 95% fail without a doubt. But then you owe it to yourself to get started.Whether in a traditional business, or online is not relevant. What is, is your WHY as this will give you fuel to stay motivated when the going gets tough and your freinds, family nag at you. Keep a vision, maybe design a vision board of things you like doing, and it will soon filter out what would be suitable and what not.Just remember "Success comes to those who deserve it". Ask yourself, what would I do, if fear and money is not an option and then go and get themTo your Success!

You have more guts than I ever had if you left a paying job before you had your small business ducks in a row. Life and business takes planning.Take action smoothly , THEN get to starting your own business is really interesting! Although I'm not a big proponent of fear, I do tend to agree that there's nothing like fear to get us moving. It's when that fear becomes overwhelming that the incentive fails.One thing to hold onto firmly is that you take things One Step At A Time!Ask yourself on a regular basis, "What can I do in the next 20 minutes that will solve this thing that's got me tied up in a twist?" If you can't do a single thing within those 20 minutes, let it go for now.Secondly, I'm a big fan of lists. :-) To-Do lists, shopping lists, and other planning lists.you've done a lot of research, and you're at the moment overwhelmed. I'd start with a list: "What do I need to know, all of which is making me nuts?"Write down the jist of what you've been researching. Don't try to evaluate it, just put down a sentence (no more than two), and describe what you found in that research. Make a list of what you think you're supposed to be doing to start a business.For example, you likely found out you need a business plan. you found out you need accounting tools. you found out about Web sites, developing a product, finding a niche, getting advice, meeting people, networking, joining this or that, paying something else, buying whatever, and spending lots of money and time.Okay. Write each of the things that's in your mind on paper. It's an odd fact of human minds that we can store between 5-7 "things" in our attention at one time. Add to that and we push one thing out into our long-term memory or we forget it. If we don't push it out, it "falls out" of our head.When you write these down, you're using something like an external drive to supplement your short-term memory, before you put something into long-term memory. (It takes about a week for something to process from Now into long-term memory.)By writing all these thoughts down, you'll free up your general attention span. you then can look at the list, decide how to prioritize it, and spend your energies putting numbers in front of each thing. What will you do first, second, and third. Leave the rest for later.