CHAPTER 11

Planning Is Dreaming and Scheming

What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

Sheryl Sandberg

In planning, it is of paramount importance to not only understand the mechanics of what to do, but also to realize why you are doing it, what significance each move has, and the implications of your actions and inactions.

Setting Meaningful Goals beyond Your Reach

The true entrepreneur is a visionary who sets targets high, just beyond reach, and strives a little harder to stretch that extra distance. Goals, sometimes in conflict with each other, give you something to dream about.

Goals should be concrete as well as abstract. Material possessions or sales targets are concrete. Power and independence are decidedly abstract, but may be just as important ...

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