Can you share a few hours a week as a BUSINESS MENTOR?

About five years ago, I went into congestive heart failure due to atrial fibrillation, the latter of which the doctors have not been able to correct. CHF is not something that kills you quickly like a heart attack or stroke. Instead, it slowly but surely wears your body down as your weakened heart is not able to provide an adequate blood supply to your body. However, with medication, exercise and new treatments, CHF is not the death knell that it once was. I generally live a pretty normal life these days, with one important exception: My mind is not what it used to be. I literally think differently and have a hell of a time focusing, on the order of ADD. As well, I certainly don't have the energy and stamina that I did pre-CHF.

The downtime during my initial diagnosis and recovery gave me time to think with a new perspective about what I want to accomplish with the remainder of my life, and I decided to start a unique and sorely needed business despite my new limitations. I've owned several throughout life, most successful with a few stinkers thrown in to teach me valuable lessons. My health notwithstanding, I am at a perfect point in my career to launch this enterprise which centers around a lifelong dream. That is, I'm more invested in this venture than anything I've tackled in my more than 30-year career that has successfully spanned journalism and technology.

That brings me to the subject of this post. Because of the changes in my brain, I am struggling -- really struggling for the first time in my life -- to move forward with this business. I've spent more than a year researching the industry, market, products, services, and so forth. I've also spent a lot of time testing the concept with a wide variety of people and building a network of folks who will be critical to the organization's success. I'm ready to go -- but I'm stuck at the starting line, not able to even churn out the simplest of business plans and other needed documents. Once I do, gathering a circle of smart, trusted, quality people around me will get things off the launchpad.

I am not looking for anyone to do the work for me. What I envision is more of a project manager who can help focus me by breaking down the tasks in front of me, keep me on track and hold me accountable for deliverables. Yes, I could hook up with a SCORE mentor, join a young entrepreneur group/network or seek input from a forum run by and for business owners, but GLP has been a home to me for nearly two decades. There are a LOT of smart people here, and I'm hoping one (or maybe a few?) of you with some time and patience would be willing to help kick my butt into action -- maybe because you've been there too or like a good underdog story or can't help yourself from breeding success.

What's in it for you? You tell me. Negotiation is the heartbeat of business.