WORKING WHILE WORKING
Your day or night job doesn’t have to consume you. It just exist for you to keep the lights on and to survive. That’s it. The career you really want is made in the hours away from your regular job and that’s what’s going to determine if your side hustle takes your 9-5 place and becomes your career. Here’s how to work while working.
BUDGET
A small goal is to at least have 6 months of bill payments saved up. The ultimate goal is to have a year salary saved up in 2-3 years. You never know where that day will come where you say “Fuck you, Fuck you, Fuck you, You cool, and fuck you” and quit your job so you can really jump off the porch and really lock in on your side hustle. That money saved is gonna give you breathing room to focus and not panic. You need to have that exit strategy from your 9-5 ready because that transition isn’t going to be easy. Have that emergency account fatter than Niecey Nash titties.
HEALTH
People work 8-12 hours a day 5 days a week and understandably they’ll be tired as fuck once they make it home. Especially if they have a bad day. You ever have a bad day and you drop your keys right when you get to the door? The diabolical end of the day key drop is the last little razzle dazzle sprinkled on your fragile ass soul and fucked up day. I mention health because it’s important that you eat right during the day so you can have energy when you come home to clock in for your dream. How the fuck you got eat a big ass burrito for lunch with lemonade and expect to come home and have energy? How the fuck does that work? You bout to come home and sleep. Your body is a motor. You have to feed it the right things to keep it running smooth. Feeding it sugar isn’t doing shit for you but setting you up to crash when you get home. Pack your lunch. A healthy one. You will be tired after doing some shit at a place you didn’t wanna be at. You have to learn how to work through being tired when you get home.
THE WHOLE WEEK
Every Sunday plan out the whole week. Hour for hour. You’ll save yourself a bunch of time and you’ll be able to focus because you already have all your tasks down and all that is left is to complete the tasks. When you doing shit as you go you won’t be efficient at all. You’ll be as useless as the family member your family never allows to cook on Thanksgiving. They’re only allowed to bring cups and ice and they somehow fuck that up too. You have to have a routine in place. You have to have priorities and use your spare time on your real goals.
THIS SHIT GONE WORK
There is no safety net. Your side hustle WILL become your career. There is no plan b. Plan B is as useless as hope. A plan b means you’re literally planning your failure. Plan B’s are only for nights you’ve had too much D’usse and the thought of you being a parent is the dumbest shit at this moment. Your mindset needs to be you don’t have a fucking choice but to succeed. You have to Deebo yourself and take that Plan B chain off your own neck. Your mentality has to be set on winning when it’s all said and done. Ain’t no other option. Fuck all that.
SACRIFICE
There’s things I want to do but I don’t. I want to travel but I’m focused on creating a career for myself. I actually would love to kick it every weekend despite what people think but I choose not to. I want to go to movies, concerts and events like everyone else do but if I’m already dedicating majority of my time to my regular job then where does that leave my goals? I’m not choosing none of that shit over my goals. I don’t give a fuck about holidays. I don’t give a fuck about being in the mix. My goals are my goals. That shit matters. If you don’t understand sacrifice then you won’t understand achievement.
Your side hustle is a seed. You have to water it.
Peace
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