What the benefits of starting a business?

Benefits of starting a business -- assuming you have planned it correctly and have a good strategy -- include:

- More control over your destiny.

- Unlimited financial upside.

- Greater flexibility on your time (after you get the business up and running and put systems and processes in place so it runs without you).

- Increased satisfaction from being your own boss.

- The ability to be creative.

- The fulfillment that comes from creating something out of nothing.

- The ability to serve other people and bring value to them.

- Intellectual stimulation.

- Increased status in your community.

- The chance to live up to your full potential as a leader.