January 2018 – Loca Game

Learn To Treat Yourself: Enjoy Your Life

Posted on January 29, 2018January 17, 2019 by Isabel Graver

If you spend your life doing things that you do not want to do, you are wasting your time. It is true that the modern society can be a quite hectic one where one would have minimum time to attend to one’s own needs. But this should not be a reason for you to stop doing things that you love. If you do not learn to treat yourself, you will not be able to enjoy life in the manner it is meant to be enjoyed. There is so much that a person could do, and it will be quite important for one to focus on what makes one truly happy.
In learning to treat yourself, it would do well for you to know what you enjoy and love. The positivity that comes to you from doing the things that you love will have an impact on the other aspects of your life as well. Here are a few ways that you could treat yourself with happiness:

Engage in a hobby

Different people love different things in life. It would do well for you to focus on the things you love and make a hobby out of them. Depending on who you are and your lifestyle, the hobby that you engage in might be as something as calming as reading books, or it could be something as exciting as riding around in a jetski. In any case, you need to pick a hobby that you are certain that you can enjoy for a long time. This will allow you to face life in ideal ways.

Learn a skill

Learning a skill will not only be an enjoyable process but will also prove to be useful to you in the future. Once again, there will be a lot of skills for you to choose from, depending on your preferences. But it will be ideal for you to learn a skill that is useful to you while being quite enjoyable as well. As an example, if you learn and get a boat and jetski licence, you will know how to ride a vessel, which will be a pretty decent skill to have.

When you are learning a skill, you need to ensure that you learn it the right way, or there will be no point in learning it at all. Taking the same example as above, if you are getting a jetski licence, you have to get the necessary training from a reliable service provider.

Be open to new experiences

When you are open to new experiences, you will be able to have a lot of good times. This is why you should always try out things that are new, when you are getting on with the matters of treating yourself. This will give you many pleasant memories to cherish later in life.

Mistakes To Avoid If You Want To Keep The Costs Low On Your Startup

Posted on January 16, 2018January 17, 2019 by Isabel Graver

Making sure that your overhead costs and other expenditure remain at a minimum rate is really important if you want to make sure that your startup is one that is able to make profit. If you start bleeding too much cash you will not be able to gain much profit from your company and you might even find it hard to run this. Here are some very common mistakes that people tend to do when they start a company and how you can avoid them.

Trying to do everything yourself

It is natural to feel like you need to maintain control over every single aspect of the company until the company can be put on auto pilot mode. This is your child and you want to be able to take care of this. But in doing so too much, you will automatically be spending cash that you do not have or cash that you are able to turn into profit. Trying to everything will not just increase your costs but will also increase the stress that you put on yourself. If possible on certain operations like information technology try to outsource the processes to a reliable managed IT service so that you will not only get the work done on time and well but also cut down all that infrastructure, multiple jobs and training and development that you will otherwise need to invest in.

Not looking at long term profit-inducing solutions

One more mistake that you can do is thinking short term while this might feel like the best way to start small, starting small and planning for the long run are two completely different things. You should for instance think about getting cloud services Sydney and the likes so that you will not need to worry about your data back up and the likes. The most successful startups out there that have won the world are the ones that managed to think long term and get their work done without having to carry out small ad hoc processes because they only thought of quick fixes. Thinking long term will really take your company places.

Hiring too many people

Do not hire too many people. Get the skills that you need in-house only. Hire for the senior positions and look for people who can take ownership and do tasks that are not in their job description. If possible for jobs like graphics and content, unless that is the main source of income, hire freelancers so that you will be saving money there as well.

Important Things To Keep In Mind When Changing The Entire Procedure In Your Business

Posted on January 10, 2018January 17, 2019 by Isabel Graver

Changing the entire way things were carried out in your office is a very difficult situation. The way things were done will be what the employees will be asking for. They will most probably try to avoid the change in the process. You will also have technical difficulties of carrying out operations as they were previously carried.

So when you are upgrading your procedure there are many things that you have to face. And here some of the important things to know when upgrading!

The employee resistance to change

When employees hear the word change in the procedures, like they have been channeled to oppose any change they resist the change. Most often they are not even aware of what the change is and how it will affect them! It is best that the employees are not left in the dark until the last moment. You should always keep them informed of any change going to take place at least by informal means like the grapevine communication method! Always being in the change little by little. Because only then will the employees not feel that the entire procedure has been changed.

Customers of the business

The customers of the business will also be undoubtedly affected by any changes in the way the entire business operations take place. Which is why it is very important that you keep them informed of the changes in the operations. If there are any new aspects in the ordering methods then the customers should be informed of it early on. If you are installing a biometric thumb scanner at the entrance of the door you should ensure that a proper reception or lobby area is available for them to wait in. And also there is a proper process in place to inform the relevant person off the customers arrival!

Training and implementation

One of the main reasons why employees exist the change is because they are unable to use the new upgrades as expertly as expected. Most of them might even be afraid of using a technological upgrade that might have taken place. You must always give the appropriate employees the trainings they require to use the new upgrades as smoothly as possible. Don’t implement all the changes at once. You can have a phased implementation or parallel implementation of having the existing procedure running whilst implementing the new one. Having a biometric fingerprint reader in place to record attendance will make the staff worry more about getting late to work. Those who come late may even oppose the idea. But by implementing it you will be able to stop late comers or punish them by having electronic proof!

Business operations

The entire operations of the business may or may not change. But when a change is going to take place, you should always first take things as slowly as possible. Avoid getting in to a rush to make the changes. Keep in mind that, ‘slow a d steady, wins the race!’