Today, Monday, January 18, 2021, is Blue Monday,considered the saddest day of the year, but why? What reason makes it to be considered the saddest day? We will explain below why it has this negative consideration.

 

Why is it considered the saddest day of the year?

This unfortunate recognition arose in 2005, when psychologist Cliff Arnall tried to calculate what was the worst day of the year. To this end, he took into account in the weather, the large Christmas expenses and the frustrated purposes of previous years. He also introduced statistics of motivational levels, among other data, to finish calculating which day was the winner of this bad “fame”.

Cliff Arnall, looking at what his patients were telling him, analyzed the factors that stressed those who came to his workshops and concluded that on the third Monday in January of each year he was“particularly depressing.”

In English, the blue word is used to describe sad or depressing things. That’s why he called this day Blue Monday.

Despite his study and conclusion, many people criticize his theories and question his thesis.

What do you think about this day?

Let’s face Blue Monday with the best SMILE.

We know that this day encourages us to let ourselves be carried away by sadness and apathy, so from Espai114 we want to encourage you to be positive and turn the Blue Monday upside down.

1. Think about it’s one more Monday and it doesn’t have to be better or worse than any other. You decide the attitude with which to face the day.

2. Watch what goes through your mind. Don’t get carried away by negative thoughts and take controlby focusing them on good things.

3. If you really feel it’s not your best day, avoid making decisions that may be motivated by your mood.

4. To cheer you up, do activitiesthat motivate you and have fun. Once your workday is over (or before you start it), do activities that evade you such as exercising, watching series or spending time on your hobby.

5. Finally, there is no sad day that persists by spending a good time in good company. Try to surround yourself with a member of your bubble group to put negative thoughts aside.

 

Espai 114 is always at your disposal to help you and your company.

Here you will find everything we can offer you.

 

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What is the cost of establishing a business? Before investing the first euro in your future business, plan all the investment it will entail. In addition, you can see how you can finance in this post that we wrote on the blog.

According to the Expansion Dictionary, the costs of establishing a business are those that are accurate for the creation of the company and for the start of its activities, associated with the start-up of a commercial or industrial activity (such as studies, transfers, trademarks or patents), and which are carried out to the asset as a good of the company.

Forecasting results

How much could you sell in a month? From Espai114 we help you with our entrepreneurship tools,where you can find the business plan that we offer you for free.

 

 

Detailing expenses

We want to list the actual expenses to start with a business. The items that generate the most fixed costs are those of the space and in human resources.

The costs of premises include a periodic lease, the deposits of the same, the conditioning works, the construction project, the furniture, the costs related to the maintenance of the premises: water supplies, electricity, telephone, cleaning and maintenance. You should also have a computer, a software to work with, a POS and a website, or online store… this would be joined by a computer service. Investing in an insurance policy and alarm system will save you a lot of headaches. When you start a business you also have to pay for municipal licenses, fees and taxes.

As for expenditures on human resources, you will have to budget payroll and premiums, depending on the number of workers you will have, in addition to the costs of the self-employed and the hiring of legal / labor / tax counseling. Travel and diets should also be taken into account.

To all the above you will have to add the expenses of banking services and financial expenses such as credit cards, or a vehicle or vehicles for the company, whether rental or own.

After all this great investment, you can not ignore other types of expenses characteristic of your activity, purchase of stock, courier services, logistics…

Put yourself in a situation

Thanks to the business plan we talked about earlier, you can make a feasibility plan and budget for what you’ll enter in the first year, even the next three. The key to viewing your business is knowing your fixed and variable expenses, how you will finance, how and when you will charge, etc.

 

 

Renting a space in our Business Center will save many of these expenses and especially part of your time in contracting supplies, renovating a premises or buying the furniture. You have the option to rent a table in our coworking to start your activity, or if you are more than one or your business requires it, a private office.

 

Are you clear about the cost of setting up a business?

 

We are the Business Center of Badalona, to give visibility and possibilities to your business.

In Espai114 we are a team; We want to inspire you and accompany you.

Do you know that there are free entrepreneurship tools that will make it easier for you to manage your new business?

To be entrepreneur. According to the RAE, to undertake and start a work, a business, an endeavor, especially if they are difficult.

 

It is because of this intrinsic difficulty in its definition that all help is good at starting a new business.

 

From accounting issues, management issues or work tools to communication platforms. All these aspects of the day-to-day life of your company, and many more, you can manage them easily through a large number of online programs or guides and documents that we provide for free.

 

Here are some examples:

 

Password manager

Starting a new business involves, in most cases, creating accounts on numerous websites or platforms,which we will need to develop our activity. Examples include Social Media accounts, email accounts or access data to our website.

 

At first there won’t be many accounts to remember, but over time the number will increase and our memoristic ability can play us a bad trick.

 

To help us with that, there are tools like LastPass that will simplify our workby securely storing all our accounts and passwords in one place All protected by a single master password.

 

Work calendar

All beginnings involve effort and dedication, but they also deserve days offto recharge the batteries.

 

For this reason we provide you with the Official Journal of the Generalitat de Catalunya,in which the days established as a work party are reflected.

 

Sharing documents

It is common the situation of having to send a file to customers, suppliers or other people related to our company, but when trying to do so by email we get a notice similar to “the size of the attachments exceeds the maximum allowed”.

 

This is where WeTransfer saves us. With its free tool, we can send files up to 2 GB to whoever we want and in a very easy and intuitive way.

 

You can find the full list of free entrepreneurship tools we offer by clicking here.

In an upcoming entry we will explain the details of more useful tools for your business.

 

 

We are the Business Center of Badalona, to give visibility and possibilities to your business.

 

In Espai 114 we are a team; we want to inspire you and accompany you.