Do you get tired of reading surveys in the [insert your city] Business Journal telling you “The Best Place For Small Business,” wherein they report rankings from the American City Business Journals that always show somewhere else is (and usually many places are) the best place(s) to open up your new small business? Yeah, us, too.

In our humble opinion, you should pay no attention to such national surveys, because they are nothing but worthless filler for journal pages whose only use is to drag your eyeballs to their next paid advertisement. The American City Business Journals data almost always show your current locale as a less than optimal place to open your new small business.

The truth of the matter remains, the best place to start, buy, run, grow, or sell your business is right where you are right now! If you have lived in your community for sufficient time to understand its pulse and demographics and you have a good idea for a better small business to open there, then you presently reside in the best place for you to open your small business.

At Lifecycle Business Consulting, we are big believers in something we call “The P10 Principle,” which succinctly states, “Proaction, perception, planning, preparation, practice, and persistent promote practically perfect performance.” We use The P10 Principle to help people just like you start, buy, run, grow, and sell businesses better.

And wherever you are when you are reading this is the best place for you to drive your own small business to thrive as much as you want it to.

So, be proactive. Let us help you perceive your own practically perfect performance of starting, buying, running, growing, and eventually selling your own practically perfect enterprise. Then let’s work together to plan your business, prepare your business, and practice whatever it is you want your practically perfect business to do persistently.

And let’s do all this stuff just where you presently reside, because more likely than not, it’s the best place to do it right now.