Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”

–Steve Jobs

• A six-foot purple dinosaur named Barney stars in the children’s TV show Barney and Friends. The character got his start in 1987 in direct-sale videos created by Dallas teacher Sheryl Leach. The tapes caught the eye of the Public Broadcasting System, who put Barney and Friends on the air in 1992.
• Xavier Roberts, a 21-year-old art student, used quilting skills he learned from his mother to develop a line of hand-stitched, one-of-a-kind, soft fabric sculptures he called “The Little People,” found in a magical cabbage patch. They were not offered for sale, but were “adopted,” each with his or her own individual name and birth certificate. Cabbage Patch Kids are now one of the longest-running doll franchises in the country.
• YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for $1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.

Most business begin with an idea – it is what you do with that idea that makes the difference.

I was at a crossroads in my own life and didn’t know what to do. I was selling my home and needed a notary, which I paid for. That was a light bulb for me and that is how my first company was born. Starting a notary company was easy for me because I was in familiar territory. Moving into mortgages and refinances was comfortable because I had worked for attorneys all my adult life and I had familiarity with such documents.

Daniel Lewis and Judith Lawrence will teach you our PPP theory— Policies, Procedures and Profits.

Talk to your family and friends. You have the Internet to help you. There are sites that will listen to your ideas and offer you their assistance.