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Where Do I Begin?

Whether I'm on a speaker's panel, doing a book signing, supporting others or pitching QS Simple Treasures Greetings & Collections. Among all other questions, the most popular of choice I run into is;  where do I begin? I have to say, I love that question because I used to feel that way when I was in the beginning of furthering my passions with purpose. I found that often, some people will really encourage you, as well as fluff you with all of the what I call "Build To Nothing" talk. They invite you to seminars and other events with promises to answer that question and when you get there, they begin spouting platitudes that you've heard all too frequently before such as:

• Believe in yourself
• You can do it
• Build a team
• Find someone who believes in you and what you're doing
• Go for it
• Take a leap of faith and trust yourself

Etcetera, blah blah and so on. Don't get me wrong, all of that is good, it is, especially for pep-talks if that's all that is needed. But when you leave all that manifestation of hoopla, you're probably feeling motivated but yet and still left with again, the desire of an unanswered question, Where do I begin? After experiencing this high of the "Build To Nothing" inducement chatter, I made a promise that if I was ever in a position to answer that question, I would try to counter with substance and not a cosmetic spew of jargon or leave someone with the feel of impelled emptiness.

At a young age I understood what type of person I was and growing to become. I learned that I am a dreamer and a doer. I am a visionary and an executor. I am a boss and a worker bee. So, if I ever aspired to do something, I will seek out help from people who I think possess the information, or the knowledge and know-how. However, if that gets me no where, then best believe Quanda R. Graves will find out how to do it herself, even at the cost of big trials and errors, because  what I truly believe about life is that if you try hard enough, eventually you'll be placed in the right location or with the proper people to further your steps, it's just that way. In essence, I look at it like this, if you can help me, I will see what you're sharing, if not, I will find my own way.

I then, learned how to give that question some thought and how to respond. Because often, people know what they want and how to expand it but not how to begin, and vice versa. Sometimes, it's really just the basics we need. Now, some years later, I'm here, and I'm pursuing my dreams and running across people who own some similar, and as I said at the top of this feature, I'm now faced with that a question. Where do I begin? I'm happy to report that I've provided responses to that question many times over and gotten gratefulness and appreciation thrown back at me which let me know that the advice that I've given that I currently use for myself to become an author, poet, entrepreneur and indulge in other endeavors, have worked for others. May they work for you as well.

Basic Beginnings

• First figure out which dream you would like to tackle first.
• Research and write down all that is associated with your dream that you need.
• Create a price list for everything you need.
• Purchase a device or planner (if you're a planner person) to begin keeping track of all of your purchases and steps.
• Began purchasing off of your list and crossing them off as you go and move forward from there.

The above is just the basics for your beginning but there is more. Such as deciding if you're going to start from scratch with your savings, or working to launch one product to furnish another product to start. Maybe you want a small business loan, you can also research grants. Last but not at all least, is to remember you are your own team until you can add team members to build one. People don't often see it like this, as none of my friends did until I broke it down on how I envision it. Here it is, the breakdown:

• You are the accountant: Keep your financials in order (receipts, taxes and business documents, records of revenue and expenditures).

• You are the administrative assistant: Keep your appointments listed, write the emails, memos, proposals, set up your budget, and contact excel sheets, create and organize your files, check your messages and follow up on your tasks, etc.

• You are the social media manager: Set up your social medial profiles, write and set up the content for them and update them often.

• You are the publicist, product manager, advertiser and Marketer: Write your press releases and publish them, write scripts for advertising or have them written, seek out radio features, and other places to be featured. If you have a product, you must find places to host them and more. How your product or services should be marketed , find where to advertise and so on.

• You are the designer and visionary: You are to create the look, the packaging, come up with the logo, the mission statement, the plan and vision, overall and execute it. Not to mention continuously brainstorming of new ideas to keep your product or services fresh and always work to project your company's future direction.

 I'm just given you an idea as to what you encompass and what your journey entails for your beginning business. So don't sell yourself short. Grow and learn to know to take it one day at a time, at your own pace and make sure to create a belief system that constantly inspires you, keeps you motivated and willing to accept the challenges you will face. 

Whether it's your favorite playlist of music, a vision board of quotes, pictures and scriptures and/or a creatively set up environment, do it. In order to start, this >>>>is  >>>>   where>>>   you>>>  begin. 

Happy beginnings! 

Warmly,

QRGU

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Reinvention . . . Thoughts of an Entrepreneur

Reinvention is an interesting word, to me, it states change, newness and inspires you to think outside of the box to become a visionary. Ignites the spark within you to take charge, grab the bull by the horns to manifest what you see in your head. 

When you set out to achieve a dream-goal of starting a business, you begin one way, even though you may not know where to begin, or how, you start, and sometimes for a lot of us, we are figuring it out as we go. So the language of that is working with what you have until you can do better, producing one product at a time and using that revenue to move forward to producing another because you don't have enough money to launch them all at once. As well as getting your paper work in order to be a legitimate business. 

One item, whenever you can because you know that you have to begin like this or you will never begin. You must step out on faith and trust that the Lord has you. Assuming you believe that way.  But it has to be done. Not to mention, if you're like me, you don't trust many because you may be surrounded by people who can't descry your vision or just can't fathom the heights in which you want to fly (from my other article, progression is key), as well as them looking for "InstaSuccess" which doesn't exist so you don't want to deal with all of that. Because of this, you've noticed that you've opted to research and do things on your own. 

You now realize that you are not just a person with ideas, you are, the owner, visionary, the writer, publicist, advertiser, administrative assistant, bookkeeper, product manager, coordinator, social media specialist, executor and much more. After the epiphany of realizing this is what you do and these are all of the things that you are responsible for, it becomes a little overwhelming, so you can't expect to display perfection, not being a one person band, at least not now, anyway.

For the most part, you'll find the beginning to be a little rocky and you don't have all of what you need, though still in the process and the constant of progress of putting your ducks in a row, you're now established. People know who you are, or beginning to and they begin to recognize what you're trying to solidify as your brand. 

Now, that what you've illuminated has come to light, and maintaining seems to be connected to the easy part. Once that takes place, and you're able to breathe a bit.You now have to look at what you've done, analyze it all to see what you can do to make it better. That then, finally allows you to reinvent your company as a whole.

Hooray! The true fun can begin! If you're open and not scared of change, you'll actually find yourself reinventing many times over, which is really a good thing because it means, you won't get too comfortable in settling, self-doubt and going with the flow of laziness. Reinventing, keeps you sharp, intellectually fluid, and stable. QS Simple Treasures Greetings and Collections is currently in the process of being reinvented, hints the new logo and price sheet, with more to come and we couldn't be more excited. The point is this, reinvention is a way of revitalizing you from within to make palpable your exhibit of dreams in clear reality form, and I gotta tell ya, that's exciting! 


Summary - Look at it like this: Reinvention is bringing out the best in you and what you have to offer many times over and loving it as you shine. 

Inspire. . .

It is not . . .