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Apple Valley Small Business Start-Up Guide
Don’t forget to include your family in the preparation. The process of setting up and running a business will take a lot of your personal time, especially in the first few years. Are you prepared to have a lot less time to spend with family, run errands, and take care of personal matters? Is your family ready to spend less time with you? Are they prepared to pick up some of the extra slack at home? Make sure you have a plan in place that clearly identifies all of the personal and professional tasks that need to be accomplished on a daily basis and who will be responsible for each. And most important, make sure everyone is in agreement and supports that plan. If you don’t have a family, you should still create a plan, even an informal one, to ensure you have time to accomplish everything you want.