overdraft) which is why the banks provide them. Make sure that you include in your costs a reasonable salary for yourself as many business owners fool themselves into thinking that their business is viable by drawing too little. Once you've decided what you will sell and what it will cost you to make those sales then step three is where you calculate what sales you'll need to make in order to generate a profit. This is where many people come unstuck: either by being too optimistic about sales or by failing to charge enough. Objective market research will allow you to estimate what customers are prepared to pay. You can find much of that from adverts in the local press and from competitors' brochures. Measure yourself against these local competitors how can you make your products or services better than theirs? But don't be afraid of competition as it shows there is a market for what you propose to sell.
Billy becomes modern pilgrim, progressing through absurd world. He travels through an absurd world, except that the doesn't progress at all, he doesn't progress, doesn't go and achieve much and go very far. Innocent adam, falling into terrible wisdom of post world war. After the war billy is shown as a sick and listless man, he is completely passive, incapable of making a decision. But hes passivity can be partly explained by war time experiences. He becomes unstuck in time. Ofcourse it is the war that has injured billy and war keeps interfering in his post life. War has not ended for billy. Billy's son is taking part of vietnam war. There are tanks in the negro ghetto. Tanks, as sa symbol of war. Sirens go off all the time, symbol of war, danger. War is not over for him. Billy becomes fairly succesful businessman but he is not happy. When he is alone, he weeps silently. The same time billy contines to time travel
critical to get the story past the blockades of d o u b t and fear. M e n t o r s may appear only two or three times in a story. Glinda the G o o d W i t c h appears only three times in The Wizard of Oz: I ) giving Dorothy the red shoes and a yellow path to follow, 2 ) intervening to blanket the sleep-inducing poppies with pure white snow, and 3 ) granting her wish to return home, with the help o f the m a g i c red shoes. In all three cases her function is to get the story unstuck by giving aid, advice, or magical equipment. Mentors spring up in amazing variety and frequency because they are so use ful to storytellers. T h e y reflect the reality that we all have to learn the lessons of life from someone or something. W h e t h e r embodied as a person, a tradition, or a code of ethics, the energy of the archetype is present in almost every story, to get things rolling with gifts, encouragement, guidance, or wisdom. THEWIZARDOFOZ