Be Your Own Boss: How to start doing what you love: a guide to being a successful solo enterpreneur

•: Introduction•: Weighing the options – should you stay put or is it time to leave? – pros and cons of quitting, do you have what it takes to go solo?•: Staying put – how to improve your situation – and your salary, working from home•: Quitting your job – deriving maximum benefit from quitting, strengthening ties, sharing contacts, lining up future work, taking the leap, becoming the MD of your own life•: Future paths – same career but with a new company, a different career with a different company, same career or different career but going solo•: What going solo actually means and how to do it – baby steps, doing what you do best, turning your passion into your job, accentuating the positives•: Setting up your solo work life, shared office vs. your own space, renting an office, working from home•: Effective home working – using your home as your office, home life vs. work life;separation and synergy, time & space, creating your environment, maximizing efficiency in your workspace•: Maximizing home-office potential – achieving the best work/life balance, the advantages of home working – and how to leverage them, the disadvantages of home working and how to avoid them, avoiding distractions, prevarication & transference•: Targets & planning – why conventional business plans don’t work for solo workers, creating a soloist’s roadmap, setting realistic targets; optimism vs. realism, problem solving strategies, charting your position and plotting a profitable c•: Dealing with clients – creating the right impression, project management, streamlining your working practices•: • Mobile working – increasing flexibility, minimizing costs, virtual’  businesses•: Maximizing soloing potential -downtime and how to use it to your advantage, exercise in the workplace, learnings from wage slaves, commuting (to the room next door),•: Working 5-9, -•: IT for the solo worker – information, communication, instant response•: • Funding – finding what’s out there,  applying for grants and loans,•: Insurance for the solo worker – protecting the bottom line, coping with barren spells,•: Breaking the rules – the rules for solo workers, why they were made to be broken, how to break them to maximum advantage•: Reasons you are bound to fail (and other excuses) -•: Maximizing your assets -recognizing your assets, protecting your assets, building new assets•: • Research – the soloist’s approach to market research,  quantitative & qualitative vs. formulative•: Dealing with clients -•: Celebrating your successes -•: Conclusion•: 20 reasons to be cheerful•: 20 things to do when you’re bored•: budget psychometric profiling