The 3 Most Important Things I've Learned About Side Hustles
*Hint: It has to be fun or else what's the point?
Ah, yes. Another Monday.
I’ve come to like Mondays ever since I started working at home. I don’t really get the Sunday scaries.
Monday means new beginnings. It’s another chance to make great things and to focus on what matters to you: like side hustles.
Here are three things I’ve learned in my seasoned (26) years of experience. And if you like what you read, I’d love it if you hit that “subscribe now” button!
1. You need them just as much as you don’t need them
You could get by without one. That’s the honest truth.
You could work your 9-5, move up in the ranks of your company, and call it a life.
There’s nothing wrong with that at all. In fact, I love it. I wonder whether I’d be happier doing it that way or not. I just wonder.
I love the lifestyle I live. Even though I don’t have set hours and find myself working into the late evening (It’s currently 7:34 PM as I write this email), I like having something new to work on every day.
A side hustle is a ticket to future freedom. It’s an expensive ticket, though. It’s one you pay for with time and effort.
2. It has to be fun
I wouldn't be writing after 16 months if I didn’t like doing it.
I would’ve crunched that idea into a ball and yelled “KOBE” while shooting it into the trash can.
The reason it’s easy for me to write as much as I do is that I’ve gamified the process. I’m constantly competing with myself, trying to beat the past versions of my blogger persona.
If you don’t like your side hustle, you’re probably in the wrong field, bub. YOu don’t have to suffer at something because you think you should do it.
3. It takes (a lot) of work before you see any traction
Remember when I said I’d been blogging for 16 months?
I’ve posted every week for more weeks than I’d like to count right now. Did I want to have 10,000 newsletter subscribers by now? Hell yeah! But that’s not how it works.
I’ve come to appreciate the select few whp’ve joined me on the pseudo journey. That’s really what it’s all about. It’s about you.
Every time I see one you join Part Time, it’s a reminder of all the time I’ve spent building myself up to be, well, I guess someone you are willing to trust with your inbox.
That’s special. No one talks about how significant that is. If you have a newsletter yourself, you know what I’m talking about.
The point is, nothing is going to happen because you think it should. Everything happens for a reason, but it takes time for a dream to become a reality.
See you Wednesday! And don’t forget to subscribe if you already haven’t!