If you listened to yesterday's podcast, you heard some tips on steps to get your podcast started. Today, I'll continue to helping you start a podcast.  

There are many benefits to why you should get your voice heard. Personally, my favorite is the potential impact you could have on the lives of so many others. Imagine, you have a skill, idea, experience, knowledge, talent, passion, expertise, information, or hobby that could help another human being, if not more. The best way to start making an impact is by providing value to the public.  

Taxes are a very serious concern for any business owner. There isn’t a for-profit business owner anywhere who doesn’t have to take taxes into consideration. Almost every location in the world taxes businesses.

As a business owner, you may be responsible for a wider variety of taxes than ever before. You need to consider not only your own state and federal taxes, but also sales taxes, payroll taxes, and many others.

You will need to apply for an Employer Identification Number, or EIN. This is your federal tax ID number (sort of like your social security number, if you’re American) and it will be how you file your federal taxes to the IRS. It will also be used if your company applies for credit and for other purposes.

Not everyone who starts a business needs a business license. It really depends on the type of business you’re going to run, where you’re going to operate it, and a number of other factors.

If you need a business license and don’t get one, you could be facing some pretty harsh fines depending on where you live.

To find out if you need a business license, you will need to find out what your state and/or local government requires. This will depend on a variety of factors, and you may need other types of licenses in addition to a standard business license.

Starting your own business is not an endeavor you should jump into without a great deal of thought and consideration. It’s risky, and there are a lot of steps to getting started.

Most people seem to think you can jump right into daily operations, but there’s a lot of preparation needed before you can make your first dollar or court your first customer.

We’re going to take a look at some of the various factors to consider before you open the doors to your business, and what you need to be absolutely sure to get in place before you get started.

No matter where you are in life, just start where you are.  It doesn't matter what you are hoping to accomplish, but if you have been waiting for the right time to start a business, start your own podcast, start a blog, start a fitness routine, start a new habit or hobby - whatever it is, start right now. How many of you think it is too late to start something new? How many of you think you just don't have time? Or how many of you have put some of your goals, dreams or to-dos on the shelf and really have no intention of dusting them off and working on them?  

A couple months ago, I did a challenge titled One Funnel Away. This 30 day challenge was nothing short of amazing. It helped me craft my own future business and get all of this started. In fact, I started doing this daily podcast because of this challenge. I have also had a couple of my joint venture partners take the challenge and they too have made progress towards their very own online passive income streams.  

My entire life, I have been a perfectionist in almost every way. I had my life planned out, I had every process perfected and I had ‘control’ of almost every situation. However, I found out as I grew older that being a perfectionist was almost a curse. When things didn’t go my way, when things were out of my control, inside I literally freaked out.

For most of my life, I have felt that being a perfectionist was a great thing and I somewhat still do, but when you find the ability to harness the power of taking imperfect action, the sky becomes the limit. If I could go back in time and let my past self know about this amazing concept, I would – my life would have been forever changed in many ways. How about you? Do you consider yourself a perfectionist too?

I have literally been spending every single moment of my free time listening to podcasts and watching videos of people who have been successful with funnels. And not just any funnel though, funnels developed using a particular funnel building tool. My list of people who I admire in this space is growing by the minute. It is amazing to see how many people are making literally millions using  and how many people have such great stories of being the average Joe to becoming a millionaire in less time than it takes to go to college. I don’t know about you, but I want to be part of this elite group of entrepreneurs who are living out their dreams and who love what they do.

How many of you consider yourself to come up with brilliant ideas, generally, all of the time? But how many people actually turn those ideas into income streams? I’m sure we would be surprised to find out that only an extremely small percentage of people actually make things happen. I would say that lack of time is a huge barrier to turning my ideas into accomplishments. But I also have another diagnosis and it is what I have coined as “Squirrel Syndrome”…let me explain it and see if you can relate?