What type are you?

I am reading a book called The E Myth Revisited, Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It, by Michael E. Gerber. So far I have found it very interesting and reviling. There is the Entrepreneur, the Manager and the Technician.  The entrepreneur personality turns the most trivial condition into an exceptional opportunity.  The manager personality is pragmatic.  Without the manger there would be no planning, no order, no predictability.  The technical personality is the doer.  The technician's loves to tinker and his credo is "If you want it done right, do it yourself".  I have thought about myself in regards to these three personality types and discovered that I am a Technician, then an Entrepreneur, and then a Manager.  I find myself doing everything around the house and other places and always thinking up new ways to do it.  According to the book, all three of these are important if you want to run a successful business and that we have each of these inside of us, we just need to stop and learn the one we are weak in.  I find this to be true in my life.  I need to stop and manage.  I am always moving and working and doing and never stopping to plan and be a manager.  I don't stop to plan how my money is working, how my home is working, I don't make a menu, I am a doer and I find excitement in trying new things.

I have decided it is time to stop this insanity and try being all three.  I need to stop and plan before I continue to think and do.  I plan a little but I need to do more.  I need to see the necessity to each of these personalities and use them all to my advantage.  We can find a way to do those things that we consider boring and not necessary and I think it is important that we try.

This week I have also been learning about how to create a business plan.  I am not a planner.  I dislike sitting and planning when I can be up and doing.  In the group discussion board there was student who had helped to write a 30 page business plan that had won an award.  I cannot imagine having to do that.  It seems to be such a large task.  I would need a lot of help and that were the team comes in I suppose.  There is so much thought that needs to go into a business plan and into preparing to open a business.  Each step is important.  I liked the idea I have read since starting this class that we should carry a notebook with us to jot down things we think of or remember or thoughts about what our business needs.  I think that is important.  I find that my minds gets so busy and full that often times it is hard to recall useful information.

Because of my business, I think that there is not time to start a business.  I am already running.  I am going to stop and plan and see how that works for me.