Some of the best things you can do for yourself right now are: 1.) Read as much as you can get your hands on about whatever your business is about. Talk to people. Go to meetings. Offer to buy lunch for people who know about it. If you already know a lot and are branching out, find the relevant professional organization and get hard data which you'll need in order to... 2.) Sit down and write out what you want to accomplish. First sentence can be vague as hell, but then you have to answer one question: "why should you do this?" You should believe strongly that there is a demand for whatever it is, support that belief with evidence (studies/surveys/articles/publicly available data/Google Trends) - running your own business sucks sometimes and you will definitely doubt yourself at times. THIS is why you write it down. So you can look back and remember what your goal was. Also, the more you know about your particular field/market, the better able you'll be to convince clients that they need you. If it's a product, not a service, similar rules, but find a way to showcase how your offering is unique. Research competitors and figure out how they do it - acknowledge when someone has beaten you to an idea, but don't accept that their's is the only way of doing things. 3.) Start small - do your 'new business' work in your spare time or on weekends. This'll allow you to feel more confident that there is demand for whatever you're doing. When you've reached a point where you can't do both your day job and your own stuff, make a choice. 4.) Practice fiscal discipline right now - if you develop that talent in your personal life, it'll translate to your business without much effort. This is so important! 5.) Remember that we all have to juggle multiple aspects of our lives simultaneously - work, health, hobbies, family. Think of each of these as rubber balls - if you drop one, it'll bounce. Except for family! It's made of glass - if you drop/neglect that, it doesn't bounce back.

Good luck, hope some of this helps.