Jason Fried along with David Heinemeier Hansson have written a brilliant book about building, running and growing (or not) a business. I like to think of it as a minimalist manifesto.

When I am working with individual clients on their careers, particularly those who have been retrenched, as an exercise I often decide that we should investigate starting a business. 

We investigate a franchise, we consider something relating to their experience and then we invent a product. Perhaps something that they might need in their lives that does not exist. I used to lose potato peelers; always being absent minded and wrapping them in with the peels. Someone invented the big, fat, heavy potato peeler; wish I had!

All of this is just about distraction, about working creatively outside the career problem and thinking outside the square so that that when we return to the career issues, they seem better clarified.

That was until I discovered this book and the last three retrenched people I have seen have all started businesses!

Maybe you should read it too. Change your life today.