CHAPTER 9

Action Planning: How to Do the Right Thing

Let us recap … so far in this book you have:

  • Created an Inspiring Vision of Success.
  • Identified a Real and Meaningful Service or Solution.
  • Developed a Detailed (but simple) Business Plan.
  • Established a System to Continually Check Your Progress.

Finally, we get to the place where most entrepreneurs choose to begin—the action.

For most of the emerging entrepreneurs I meet, the action steps involved in building their businesses often become an exercise in chaos. Managing chaos every day has its rewards but, in most cases, the rewards are not monetary, long-lasting, or productive.

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

—Colonel Tom Kolditz

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