Beyond Your Startup: A Life Planning Workbook
This Life Planning Workbook helps entrepreneurs map Plans A, B & Z — clarify your future beyond your startup and build a resilient life strategy.
Most founders have exactly one plan, and they call it “make this work.” It’s a brave way to live and a brittle way to plan. The moment the only acceptable outcome is total success, every wobble becomes a threat to your entire future — and fear, not strategy, starts making your decisions. This workbook replaces that single fragile bet with three deliberate ones.
Plans A, B, and Z
Plan A is the path you’re on. The current venture, the current bet, fully committed. The workbook helps you define what winning actually looks like and the honest signals that tell you it’s working.
Plan B is the adjacent pivot. Not failure — a turn. If the market shifts or the model strains, where does your hard-won expertise carry you next? You’ll map the skills, relationships, and assets you’re building right now that stay valuable no matter what happens to the company.
Plan Z is your floor. The worst realistic case, planned for in advance: the runway, the fallback, the life that’s still genuinely good if this particular venture ends. Counterintuitively, knowing your Plan Z is what frees you to swing hard at Plan A. When the bottom is mapped, the fear of falling stops governing your every move.
What’s Inside
- A clarity exercise to articulate what you want your life to look like beyond the company — the part the startup is supposed to serve, not replace.
- A three-plan mapping framework with prompts for building out A, B, and Z so each one is concrete instead of comforting.
- A transferable-assets inventory that surfaces the value you’re accruing regardless of outcome.
- A review cadence so your plans evolve with reality instead of gathering dust.
How to Use It
Block real time for this — an afternoon, not a coffee break. Work through Plan A first, then deliberately let yourself imagine B and Z without flinching; the discomfort is the work. It pairs closely with the spiritual bedrock workbook for separating your identity from any single outcome, and it builds on the foundation of Chapter 1 on finding your purpose.
Download the workbook and build a life resilient enough to take a real swing.