Small Business Plan - Startup Costs Template
The templates from PlanGuy.com will accelerate your business planning. The small business startup template will help you quickly understand the cost structure of your new business. For example, one of the key cost areas is the cost of acquiring new customers.
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This is the most obvious template in the world. I hesitate to even use the word that best describes it. I want you to experience this in a new way. Here we go. Print this template out now and sit down with it at your kitchen table. Make a list of things to move forward. Pick one, and start slowly moving in that direction, with ease. Hang this sheet somewhere prominent. Stay focused on the first item until you get tired of it and then pick something else on the list. Don’t work hard, move with ease and enjoy the process of making progress. Then ask, "what's next?"
Habits, Hopes, and Dreams Template
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Use this template to align your daily actions with your hopes and dreams. First, what the feelings you experience most often? What are your daily habits? What do you find yourself thinking about or doing most often? Next are the Hopes, Wishes, and Dreams that are unique to you. Finally, results speak for themselves. But not everything is within our control. Our results are a function of our daily habits, skills and talents combined with our dreams and opportunities. How can you make small adjustments in your daily habits to better align your reality with your hopes and dreams?
Decisions and Tradeoffs Template
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In life, you will often find yourself required to make difficult choices. But what makes a choice difficult? Negatives. You may only think of the positives when making a decision, but even good options include some negative characteristics. If you are having a hard time making a decision, use this template to help you think through the options and tradeoffs.
Success and Money Template 1.1
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I added more detail to the Success and Money template from January 5th. The additional text may add clarity on how to use this template. Utilize this template to decode your own personal definition of success.
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What is your definition of success? The Success and Money template provides a worksheet to help you brainstorm your own definition of success and understand how money contributes to, or clouds, your views. A better understanding of your ideas about success will help you be aware of how these ideas influence your planning for 2008.
