Folks are often scared of big dreams because of the belief that they have to go for it with a big bang, which is presently out of their control, and because it is out of their control, they lack the control on when to start. They depend on an external event to determine when they can go for their dreams or start their businesses. This is the reason many dreamers are yet to start their small businesses. They need "capital" and the banks are not helping, so the dream waits until a fairy godmother comes and waves a "capital" wand that will bring their dreams to life.
Everything big starts small. Most billionaires in the Forbes list started from their basement, dorm rooms etc. You don't need an office and staff to start a business, even manufacturing. You can start from home, build a client base, and finance your growth from your profits. All that is needed is for you to put on your thinking cap and scale your plans down to the level where you can start just where you are.
In your journey to financial freedom, despise not the days of small beginnings. Start with your savings as seed capital. Your biggest asset is your brain. Through creative thinking, you solve all money riddles you face on the road to growing your business. You need to think outside the box, and keep an open mind.
After having done all the market survey and feasibility studies, gain back control by scaling down your start up plan to fit your budget. This presupposes that while conceptualizing, you have been putting money away as seed capital to start your business. If you have not done so, this is the time to start. Stop depending on the banks or your rich relatives for financing. With the current financial meltdown, getting bank financing just got harder, if you think it was not hard enough before now. Don't throw away control of your business in the altar of financing. Start small. Do not be in a hurry to grow big. It will come with time.
Make a quality decision to start. Look at what stands in the way to your starting now. Scale it down or find a creative solution to it. The more control in your hands, the better for you at this stage. Grow your business at your own terms, and at your own time. You can hire or improvise rather than buy new machinery right now, until you can buy it from your turn over.
The most important thing is to believe you can start right down. With that frame of mind, your subconscious mind will provide the solutions as to how you can scale down and start from your home. Take baby steps, one step at a time. After months and years of warming up to start, take a bold step and just do it.
The beauty of small beginnings is that you make small mistakes which are easy to correct and inexpensive to fix. As you master on step, you gain boldness to take a bigger step. By the time you really need more money to expand, you would have accumulated the money yourself, and gained experience in deploying the capital to maximum effect without experiment.
The funny thing is, by the time you become good at what you are doing, the banks are now ready to lend you a helping hand. Only at this time, you do not need much help anymore.
Do not scale down your dreams. Scale down your start up plans. Dream big, start small.
Usiere Uko is an author, motivational speaker, entrepreneur and webmaster of http://www.financialfreedominspiration.com, an inspirational blog of discovering your passion and fulfilling your God given dreams. Visit his site and get inspired to start your journey to financial freedom today.
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