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Part I  Choose Your Limitations

friend, Peter Berley, chef and cookbook author framed
this for me years ago. He said:

“Money is energy. It’s a tool.”

After years of wrestling with it, I finally got money
where it belonged: in my tool kit.

Don’t get trapped into thinking it’s all about the money.
It’s not always about the money. Tiny Business understands
money as an asset, an energetic and necessary tool to building
something. It’s an essential piece in your tool kit, but it’s not
the only driver. And in the absence of money, you can become
(and will have to be) a super-creative problem solver. Think of
problems as the blank canvas for you, the entrepreneur.

Until you build a healthy relationship with how much
money is enough for your life—what you need to live on
versus what you want to live with—you will not be able to
harness the energy of money and use it efficiently. You need
to know your number, your personal financial baseline as
well as what is needed for your Tiny Business.

What’s the least amount you need to live and work with?

What’s the least amount you can live and work with
and still have some fun?

I recommend allocating 10 percent of your baseline
toward savings (room to breathe) and 10 percent toward
fun (room to live).

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You can create something of
substance from a tiny sum.

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