Dreamline Worksheet 2.0– Updates to the popular 4-Hour Workweek spreadsheet

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March 3, 2008 by Jared Goralnick

Update: this has been downloaded over 10,000 times!
In the mean time, I put together a web tool that helps people to spend less time with email. It helps me tune out email distractions so I can check my inbox twice a day, but still get notified of urgent stuff via text message. It’s my other project (called AwayFind), you can check it out here (it’s also free).

The original 4-Hour Workweek Dreamline spreadsheet is available at that link. Below you’ll find a newly designed version that incorporates a lot of the feedback I received.

Screenshot of the Dreamline Spreadsheet - click here to download it

Download the Dreamline Worksheet and Expense Calculator 2.0 (Excel/XLS)

(Find the original instructions here)

The most noteworthy new feature is allowing both one-time and monthly expenses. In the previous version, one had to determine the monthly cost of each of their goals. Now one can enter the full cost and the spreadsheet will divide that total by the number of months for the Dreamline:

Demonstration of one time and monthly expense calculations

One thing to considerwhen using this new feature is that some purchases lend themselves to long-term monthly installments, like a mortgage or car payment. In those cases one should enter their monthly mortgage payment rather than the cost of the house.

The additional changes were small:

  • Prompts that help guide the user through the spreadsheet
  • Wider, improved printed layout
  • Minor bug fixes (these were all added to the previous download page as released, but many people have likely been using earlier versions)

If you find this helpful, you’ll probably enjoy my other posts on 4-Hour Workweek related topics. You can also subscribe to my blog by RSS or email today to stay notified of updates to this spreadsheet, and to read other ideas for reaching your goals through productivity hacks.

Feel free to leave any thoughts you have on this spreadsheet in the comments below, or add this to Stumble, Digg, or del.icio.us!

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15 Comments

  1. Art Gonzalez
    (2 days later)


    Jared, fantastic tool! Thank you. I will try it today. Have already share this link with my 4HWW fan friends.

    Many blessings,

    Art Gonzalez
    Check my Squidoo Lens at: Quantum Knights

  2. BrandMover
    (2 months later)


    Thank you Tim,

    This helped me to FOCUS a lot.
    Truncates all the fluff, as a 80/20 rasor ;-)
    Cheers!
    BrandMover

  3. Jessalynn Coolbaugh
    (2 months later)


    Positively Brilliant!

    I am so glad I took a friend’s recommendation to come take a look - I’m definitely looking forward to using this to implement my own goals, thank you!

    Jessalynn Coolbaugh
    TheVoiceOfCopy.com

  4. DaveH
    (2 months later)


    How can I add rows to the sections of the spreadsheet? What if I want to use more than five rows for, say, “Having” items?

  5. Jared Goralnick
    (2 months later)


    You would simply unprotect the spreadsheet and add a row to any of the middle rows–this would help prevent messing up any formulas. If there are any troubles with that, I’d recommend taking a look at the named ranges and making sure that whatever you’re changing is represented there, as well.

    Here’s more on protection and named ranges:
    http://www.setconsulting.com/newsletters/set2005_02.php
    http://www.cpearson.com/excel/named.htm

    Hope that helps!

  6. Tim Wright
    (4 months later)


    In the book, only the cost of the 4 starred dreams are added into the TMI/TDI.

    In the spread sheet, all costs are totaled in the Have, Be, and Do sections and all are added into the TMI/TDI.

    If I’m only focusing on the 4 dreams isn’t the ’sheet misleading?

  7. SIA Licence
    (5 months later)


    Hi Tim,
    Just finished reading your book, I run a Security Training business in London
    I have outsourced most work, works like a charm.
    Thanks.

  8. Hayden
    (5 months later)


    Any way to add more fields?

  9. Jared Goralnick
    (5 months later)


    @Hayden, sure nothing to stop you from it at all! Just insert rows and columns as you’d like. Mind you, you might need to adjust formulas accordingly, of course.

    Though the spreadsheet is locked, there’s no password. I wrote above in the comments other tips on working with it.

  10. SIA License Training
    (8 months later)


    Yes I to ousource many functions and it does help a lot! Thanks

  11. Plumbing Training
    (9 months later)


    Hi Tim!

    The updates are useful ongoing training, many thanks old chap!

  12. Fin
    (9 months later)


    Is there anyway we could get a version that works in google documents?

  13. Jared Goralnick
    (9 months later)


    Hi Fin,

    There are a number of features in this spreadsheet that wouldn’t work in Google Documents, but you’re certainly welcome to work out the basic featureset there. If you put it up, just let me know and I’ll be happy to link to it.

    Cheers!

  14. Houston SEO
    (1 year later)


    Thanks for sharing this spreadsheet. I am all about planning out my dreams for my business. Having set goals, specially the lofty ones, have been a huge motivator for me. I am going to put this up on the wall in front of my desk.

  15. FlashBack
    (1 year later)


    Thank you for sharing this spreadsheet. I’m all about the planning of my dreams for my business. Having established the goals, especially the nobles, have been a great motivator for me. I will put this on the wall opposite my desk.


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