Inspiration: The First Step to Starting Business

For those of us who love reading biographies of entrepreneurs, the most interesting part of such reading is usually when we come to the part where entrepreneurs state what the inspiration that drove them towards starting business was. Often the inspiration for starting business can be some mundane occurrence- while in some cases it can be as a result of some profound soul searching.
The reason why inspiration is considered the first step towards starting business is based on the understanding that almost every one gets a (potentially viable) business idea at some point in their life, but it is only a person a person with some level of inspiration that gets to act on that idea and create an actual business out of it.
If you are planning on starting your own business, then, you will have to find something to inspire you –and then act on that inspiration. And this holds true, whatever your business interests- the need to find inspiration that leads you to start your own business. Indeed, this need for inspiration remains, whether it is a completely new business you are considering starting from scratch, or whether it is an old business you are considering relaunching (keeping in mind that what many of us refer to as starting business is actually just re-launching an existing business rather than starting a new business from scratch).
It would be a difficult assignment to tell a person to go looking for inspiration for starting business consciously –as they might not even find it. Thankfully though, sometimes it is the inspiration to start your own business that comes looking for you. In this case, all you have to do is to keep yourself in a receptive state, as the more spiritually inclined might put it, and attend forums where you might find such inspiration – for instance online entrepreneur forums, offline networking meeting and so on – as well as reading widely (both reality and fiction [yes, fiction has been known to inspire new business])) – all these being places where you might find inspiration to start your own business.