DEFINING YOURSELF

When a person decides to start a business they are encouraged to put a business plan together. This plan addresses:

• A description of the business

• Capital available for investment into the business

• Financing requirements and sources for obtaining these needs

• Customer analysis

• Marketing and advertising plans to generate customers

• Operation’s plan

• Overhead and other expenses

This is a comprehensive, well researched and detailed analysis providing a REALISTIC game plan to getting a business “off the ground.” Without taking the time to create a well thought out, well executed plan, what do you think the chances are for success?

PRETTY DARN SMALL (in most cases)

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When it comes to our own individual lives, how many of us create a “HUMAN” BUSINESS PLAN to provide a comprehensive outline detailing the different components necessary to achieving the HEALTH and LIFE we desire?

VERY FEW OF US!

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If a start up business is likely to FAIL without a detailed comprehensive plan, why should we believe our HEALTH (and LIVES for that matter) won’t also FAIL without a similar detailed comprehensive plan? What makes us believe our behavior and personal choices won’t (positively or negatively) impact the quality and duration of our health and lives? Is it a lack of awareness or an unwillingness to face the TRUTH when confronting tough decisions involving ACTIONS OF WANT versus ACTIONS OF NEED?

You don’t need advanced certifications and educational credentials to live a HEALTHY and HAPPY LIFE! You need an ability to REALIZE SELF VALUE and SELF POTENTIAL. You need to understand that living life by the “seat of your pants” is a “plan of action” designed to produce POOR LONG TERM OUTCOMES (in most cases.)

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WHAT WOULD A “HUMAN” BUSINESS PLAN LOOK LIKE?

• A description of SELF:

  • who are you?

  • where do you want to go?

  • what are the benefits of following this newly designed game plan?

• Capital available for investing in ONESELF:

  • How much TIME will you invest to study and learn?

  • What is your FINANCIAL BUDGET for ESSENTIALS (ex. food, exercise, job/career training, etc…?)

  • How much EMOTIONAL capital are you willing to provide YOURSELF to handle unseen obstacles?

• Analysis of SELF:

  • are you willing to place NEEDS above WANTS?

  • are you willing to work on BOTH SHORT TERM GOALS AND LONG TERM GOALS?

  • are you important enough to place YOURSELF at or near the top of the hierarchy of those you NEED and WANT to SATISFY?

• Marketing and Advertising:

  • where are you going to turn for information to help you achieve your goals?

• Operations:

  • how will you address eating NEEDS (food preparation, eating out, work lunches, etc…?)

  • how will you address EXERCISE (where, when, how long, what type, etc…?)

  • how will you address WORK/CAREER (training, transitioning for upward mobility, creating job/career satisfaction, maintaining optimism in a working environment etc…?)

• Overhead (COSTS:)

  • how will you achieve SELF IMPROVEMENT without compromising the quality of your relationship with a spouse, significant other or child?

  • how will you balance time restraints without compromising PERSONAL alone/quiet time?

  • how will you limit debt and determine which MATERIAL POSSESSIONS are worth sacrificing in exchange for LIFE TIME EXPERIENCES?

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This is an example of a HUMAN BUSINESS PLAN. This type of plan creates a REALISTIC approach to achieving better HEALTH and QUALITY LIVING.   Its format is FLEXIBLE and can be MODIFIED as one undergoes periodic reviews to make certain ACTIONS and INTENTIONS are in sync resulting in ACHIEVEMENT.

The “HUMAN” BUSINESS PLAN replaces

• the New Year’s resolution

• the diet

• the dreaded lifelong job

• the sedentary life

• the ongoing emotional suffering

• the unrecoverable state of debt

• the growing chronic state of disease

RATHER THAN DREAMING AND “WISHING” ABOUT THE LIFE AND HEALTH YOU ALWAYS WANTED, WHY NOT CREATE IT FOR YOURSELF.

It requires EFFORT, but no more so than the energy expended living a life of anguish, pain, frustration and UNHAPPINESS.

 

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