Why Big Dreams Can Be Big Problems

During the period of growing up, most often we are told by our teachers and parents that we can be anything, if we wish to be so. Slowly but certainly we encounter with the reality. “Big dreams come with big baggage” is the famous adage  that our parents or teacher might leave out for us.  

We all look up at the successful icons, wondering at their triumphs. We study and read their success stories and try to imitate their journey. But the true fact is that, it takes years, even to get a shot at their dreams. Even then also, it is not guaranteed that you will be able to reach the goal.

If beaten down, you will be disappointed, and your dream will never knock at your door. The path to success is not an opportunity. It is full of ditches, potholes and apparently insurmountable mountains

Success is not a opportunity, a  passage,  littered with ditches, potholes, and apparently undefeatable mountains. It’s not the moments of success that helps us to find out what we are, rather the moments when we are torn by the adversities that we can mould ourselves.

How dream can be attained

The obstacles on the way to your dreams, can be mitigated in a most successful way.  These are:

Reframe the definition of failure

When you transform your failures into time the failing can’t be the define your success. So, it is better to celebrate that you tried rather than being sorry for your failure. Evaluate what you had done in the past and reconstruct taking lessons from the what went before.

Only work and walk for the next milestone

Set small targets and attain it. Now set the another milestone. Focus on just the next target. Never look at the mountain peak as your goal. If you don’t look at your feet, you will never reach the goal. Real progress is the short time wins. By winning the every short distant post, you will win the long distant dream goal.

Surround yourself with people who challenge you

The people with whom you spend time matters. Mix and interact with the quality people, you will the improvement. Invest your life to those people who challenge you. These people will make better. But make sure that those people are challenging you positively.  

All these things will help you to attain your big dream in a realistic way. Not all, one of these shifts at least, will help you to take action in a practical way. 

5 Small Business Tools You Can Get for Cheap

The saving of money is a huge deal for the small businesses across the world.  Monthly financial plan often comes down to just a few hundred dollars in between. It means either to proceed in the right direction or in the wrong direction. It leads to either staying afloat or crashing down. Thus, affordable tools can be a big advantage.  

Worry less, you don’t need to spend a huge amount of money on these tools. All that is necessary is to search for the right tools patiently for the right solution. There is not any single tools, but a lot. You can use as many of them as possible. Once you are habituated with a few, you may choose for the premium option. The tools not only help you to pick the better decisions, but also allows you to be in the right path.

Some of the tools that you can try are here:

1.     Website Builders

If you don’t  have any idea about developing and designing website, then creating a website might be an unrealistic idea. Don’t worry! You have ways. Explore online for the website builders for the small business. They might have their pros and cons, but they are all cost-effective and extremely perceptive.

2.     Social Media Automation

It is a very useful cGomponent for the small business. But, being time consuming it is very frustrating also. But the lack of successful management tools, is helped by the automation tools. With these tools you can put some of the responsibilities on the auto-pilot that needs your attention.

3.     Business Planning

Making a business plan without conducting the task by any formal department  is impossible. However, the right tools can help you to do so. It is a very easy method and very easy to download. Get free business plan templates and other relevant guides for searching, arranging and  funding.

4.     Graphic Design

If you are not a graphic designer, never worry. There are tons of graphic design tools online. These let you to use the formatted template in order to create a variety of marketing materials.  These are normal to look that they seem to come from an expert designer.

5.     File Storage

All you need now is the cloud file storage system for all those pesky files. There is no longer a reason now to email all your files to email files or USB drives. The best options are Dropbox, Google drive and Box  with their respective storage system.

So find one of the best tools that works for you for better success in your business.

How to test your business idea without spending a buck

May be you have a wonderful business idea. It is nothing unusual that you wish your venture a ‘next big thing’ around.  You are not sure whether to start investing money or to observe the market for a few days.

But, you must get out of the confusions. You should test your product or services in the market first to evaluate if it is worth investing. You can test almost any idea free. You can always play safe. Will it make your business success? Will it make your industry really stay on among the competitors? These are not all sure. The future is unpredictable, so is your business.

Let’s know a few inexpensive things that you should know before you start a business. All these tests about your business will make your business sustainable, workable and growing.

Identify your market:

Every business needs marketing. Your products and services need market and marketing. So you identify market where you are going to sell them. If you are new in business or you are going to sell your products in new market, never be haste to take a plunge in selling. Move from market to market, feel the demand of your products among the people around. You can visit the trade show and feel the people’s mood and temperament to accept your products. If the response is quite good, then move to the next level.

Identify your customers 

You can make a list of customers on the basis of your locality or outside of it and tick against the perfect customers. Make the list specifying their sex, age, professions, family members, marital status, their main motivation for the purchase. All this data will help you to structure how your sales process should process. It will tailor the product and services that you want to sell out.

Evaluate demand of the products and services

The big companies spend a lot on hiring a group and campaigning the products to have an idea of the demand of the products and services. But you can do the similar search yourself by starting small one and then testing and measuring as needed. It will surely give some ideas about your products.

Start your list of contacts

At the startup phase, list the name of vendors, suppliers and the potential customers. Continue building the list and set up a strategic way to communicate them consistently. Today's contacts might be converted into tomorrow's customers. What’s important is that all of your contacts will be in touch every other person in your contact list.

For most of the businesses, every contact of your database is a valuable asset. Find a proven market to let your sale grow. Wins the customers and make them grow and let them coming back.

Want to spend less time on social media sites? Try these tricks

The minute you wake up, you feel a strong urge to open your Facebook account. You are almost latched on it.  But browsing of social media is not all the time productive.  The easy accessibility to smart phones and internet, it is very hard to get yourself detached from the account. But your every minute of pressing the home button of your account on the social networking site is productive. But, once you are in, it is very hard to get out of it.

 You can if you wish. So, how you can control yourself from frequent log in to your account or how can you minimize your time of staying on social media site. Here are 5 tips that will help you a lot.

Disable automatic Log in  

One of the best tricks is to disable the automatic log in option of the social media site. You are not always in the mood to enter your password and username every time you wish to enter into your account.

Change your Password frequently

Another way is to change your password frequently. Your changed password should always be the one that is hard to remember. Keep saving your password somewhere which is difficult to access. Such keep it save in your home PC. When you are at school or at work hooked on the place, your password will not be handy. Always keep the password in a safe place so that you can retrieve whenever possible.

Track your time that you spend on social media

Start tracking your time how much time you spend on social media site. Spend a day only noting the time spent. You will be surprised to see how the seconds, minutes and hours are spent so quickly. When you realize that you have spent 3-4 hours on the social media sites, cut the usage hours and stick to it continuously. If possible, cut more time to spend it on other productive work. If you can’t, settle a time and make a challenge and strive continuously to reach the goal.

Meet friends physically

Make something physical with friends, like going for a short drive or hiking , talking about any recent topics. When your socialization grows, you will be more and more detached from the virtual friends on the social media.

This tricks work as long as you want to work them for you. Remember, no cheating to yourself when you are going through the process. Add productive hours to your day every time and every way, and always.