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No checklist, I did my first businesses freestyle after working in and being around small businesses. Perhaps I bought a paperback book on how to setup a new business from a bookstore, or checked one out from the library.Starting your first business without a system is less than ideal because you will forget several crucially important pieces, and learn this at the worst possible time. You learn why insurance is so important when the fire sprinkler floods your office, or why a proper payroll policy is important when all your employees demand back pay for unused vacation time. But in those days computers were big cumbersome devices and the Internet was a place for people spread rumors about celebrities and play practical jokes on each other, there were no web pages, search engines, or online books.Four steps to the epiphany — it's all French to me.After 5-10 or more businesses now, I lose count, I've done this enough times that I don't need to follow any guides to build a new business. Like a cook who doesn't need the recipe anymore, I might write out a shopping listI do use various productivity and task management tools to list out the tasks, requirements, purchases, people, vendors, and infrastructure I will need. These have evolved somewhat over time. In approximate historical chronological order, tools include:Journal / ledger book or memo padvi text editor, great for making task listsMS Word, better for adding bullet points and bold textExcel, if you want your task items to line upBasecampAsanaOne trick I learned when starting a business, though, is to look at my financial statements, budgets, purchase history, ledgers, file folders, list of vendors, etc., from all my past businesses. That's a good reminder of all the things you have to do — it's like looking at your packing list from the last vacation to know what you need to pack for this vacation.It's not foolproof. In 2010 I helped setup a brand new office and used the playbook from past offices — I knew exactly how many paper clips, memo pads, hole punches, paper cutters, thumbtacks, desk organizers, rheems of paper, printers, feet of Cat 6 cable, bottles of soap, etc., would be needed for an office of 5-8 people, and did the whole thing on Amazon at a cost of perhaps $10,000. But times had changed, 2010 was a tipping point when we finally moved to a paper-free virtual office. So out of many boxes of staples, tens of thousands of staples (and several staple removers) we probably used no more than a single cartridge of staples.And the perfect paper cutter, the one I wished I had known about with my first office? The one with the laser guide and the perfect clamp-down. I bought a budget version, but I don't think we ever used it once.

I didn’t.When I was pregnant with my first son, I was absolutely, 100% clear on exactly two things.I did not want a c-section. Ideally, I wanted a drug-free birth, but I was willing to compromise on that if necessary. But absolutely no c-section. No way, no how, no matter what.I was going to breastfeed my son. I’d done all the reading, knew all the facts, and was completely committed to breastfeeding. I hadn’t even considered any other possibility.And then, of course, reality arrived with a bang.I was rushed to hospital with bleeding and dangerously high blood pressure. I’ve written about it in more detail here: Jo Eberhardt's answer to What is the most frightening moment you have ever experienced?, but it culminated in my baby’s heart-rate dropping so far they thought it had stopped, and the doctor leaning over me and saying, “We need to operate right now, or your baby won’t make it.”Well, so much for item one on the checklist. But that’s okay, there was still number two.I was moved into a ward soon after being stapled together, and my baby boy was put on my chest. I did my best to get him to latch on to my breast, but he wanted nothing to do with it. Instead, the two of us lay there staring deeply into each other’s eyes for over an hour. He had the most amazing eyes when he was born, so dark it felt like I was looking into the centre of the universe.After about an hour, he went to sleep and I put him in the crib next to my bed. He hadn’t fed, but he hadn’t cried either. We were content.And that’s when things started going wrong. Well, more wrong.I was on a slow-release morphine drip to ease the pain of the c-section, and I had a bad reaction to the drug. I remember vomiting into a bag being held by a nurse, I remember feeling like there were spiders crawling beneath my skin and trying desperately to scratch my skin off and let them out, I remember a short flash of being forcibly restrained by a three or four nurses. I remember crying. And then I remember waking up, some seven hours later, exhausted and in pain and sobbing for my baby.Obviously, they’d had to take him to the nursery while I was coming down from the effects of the morphine. As soon as they knew I was lucid, they brought him back. But by that point, he’d been formula-fed a few times, and wanted nothing to do with my floppy, milk-free breasts.I tried to breastfeed. I really, really did. But I never got any milk through. I never had colostrum. Nothing. As far as my breasts were concerned, pregnancy and childbirth were nothing to do with them. They had their own problems. Like gravity.Four years later, I was pregnant with my second son. A second chance to achieve my childbirth bucket list of natural birth and breastfeeding.Yeah, I’m pretty sure you can see where this is going.I was admitted to hospital at 36 weeks with high blood pressure, developed pre-eclampsia, and started having spasms a week later, at 11pm on a Wednesday night. My blood pressure was ridiculously high, and my legs were bouncing around uncontrollably. I was given magnesium sulfate (holy dooley, that’s weird and horrible stuff) to control the spasms, and then rushed into surgery.My second son was delivered by c-section at 12:25am on Thursday morning. He wasn’t breathing. He was rushed to ICU before I’d even seen him. I didn’t get to hold my baby until 9am — and I spent those intervening hours crying while holding a polaroid of my baby that a kind midwife had brought me.Again, by the time I finally had my baby with me, he’d been exposed to the wonders of formula feeding, and he wanted nothing to do with milkless breasts.Again, I never had any milk come in, despite doing everything the midwives instructed me to do. I never had colostrum.So, how long did I breastfeed my children?I didn’t.I wanted to. I tried. I couldn’t.The combination of two c-sections and no breastfeeding has led to more shame and guilt than you can possibly imagine. I’ve read screed after screed online saying that anyone who doesn’t breastfeed isn’t a real mother, and that c-sections aren’t real birth.I’ve had complete strangers tell me I’m poisoning my babies by bottle-feeding them. As if letting them starve would have been a better idea.I’ve had people tell me that my son only gets ear infections because I didn’t breastfeed; that my sons will have low IQs because I didn’t breastfeed; that they’re never going to be completely healthy because I didn’t breastfeed.And there was a time when that stuff tore me apart.I know the benefits of breastfeeding. That’s why I was so damn committed to doing it. My body just had other ideas.There are few things more terrifying in first world middle-class circles than admitting that you didn’t breastfeed your children. So, please, if you’ve read this and feel impelled to ask “Did you try….?” or “Why didn’t you…?” please don’t feel compelled to ask it in the comments.I had doctors and midwives and lactation specialists around me at the time, and I followed their advice to do the best thing I could for my babies. Besides, even if you come up with an idea that none of them had, my youngest son is six; it’s a bit late. And I don’t have a DeLorean handy.

Hello Quora,I want to share my experience with the Road Tax payout.My Background: I shifted from Ahmedabad, Gujarat to Pune, Maharashtra. I have Activa. I had two choices. First, I have to opt to Re-registration of the vehicle (Get NOC from Gujarat & Submit NOC to Pune RTO & get a new number plate from Maharashtra). And Second, pay road tax to the State government.So, I have opted to Pay Road tax. As I don’t want to deal with Gujarat RTO & then again with Maharashtra RTO because that will be a very tedious & long process compared to the Road tax process. You may have to deal with 2 agents (1 for Gujarat RTO & 1 for Maharashtra RTO).Paying Road tax is a bit costly affair. As I already pay out a Lifetime road tax to the Gujarat government & now, I must pay again to the Maharashtra government. Road tax is around 9% to 10% of your Vehicle purchase amount. I purchase Active 3G in 59K (without road tax) Apr-2016 & I brought it to Pune on in Oct-19 end & my road tax was around 5300Rs.So, this way my number plat will remain of Gujarat & I can drive my vehicle in Maharashtra.Now let’s deal with the devil.Road tax Process: First, Pune RTO is full of shitty agents & scare you with the long process. They have fewer employees and more agents. Don’t even talk to them. They are no use of anything.You need the below checklist to Pay Road tax.RC Book Xerox.Original Bike Invoice Xerox.Valid Insurance Xerox.NCRB Report (Vehicle NCRB Verification Theft Report from http://164.100.44.112/vahansamanvay/Internetquery.aspx)Transportation Bill (Tall tax receipt or Packer and Movers receipt or anything which shows the vehicle is transferred from one state to another).Form FT with Chassis print.(Form FT from Net. You need a sharp pencil. On Top Right side of Form, FT print out Chassis of Activa. Search out videos on YouTube how-to & from where you can get Chassis print. Do it before you go to RTO or you must purchase 10rs Pencil & sharpener from shops which are inside RTO.)7.Address Proof Xerox(This the trickiest part. You need 2 Address Proof Xerox. 1st is your rent agreement & 2nd is Light bill of your current Pune Address. If you don’t want to submit a rent agreement & light bill, then simply change your Aadhar Card Address online by submitting a light bill & just give Aadhar Card xerox copy.)Note: Stapled it all your document xerox. They will not accept it without stapled.Now, Let’s go to the RTO.There are 3-4 RTO in Pune mainly 2. MH-12 & MH-14 depends on the area. There are small RTO also which are only for 4 wheelers or Practice tests so before going to RTO read google review. I went to RTO which is near Sangam Bridge on Dr. Ambedkar Road.First straightly went to the RTO office (which has 2 floors and) which is on the right side of the main gate. Go to immediate right & there were 2 personal cabins. Go to the last cabin & stand in a queue. That guy is an officer who validates your documents & signed your documents. If anything, wrong with documents he will rudely answer you & sent you home. Just like a typical government employee.After signing the document go to Window number 15 and submit documents, that guy will calculate your Road Tax & write down calculation on your documents & send you to 3 4 windows right. Submit documents & payout road tax. They will give you a simple normal paper receipt (weaker than normal paper) & wrote down that you have payout Road tax.So done, Thank You.For this simple process, I went to RTO 3 times. So, I thought I should share it with you guys.