Balancing your day job with IM
You took the risk and decided to go into IM, whilst still holding on to your job.
As you may have noticed, that's not always an easy task. In fact many give up due to all the stress involved. Combine that with you daily work, family, a spouse who may not always understand - and a whole lot of other things on your head.
Here are some of the things you can do to make things easier for yourself.
- Put in 7-10 minutes breaks at least once per hour
Your brain is a powerful machine, but it needs to re-energise itself. It automatically knows what to do so just allow it!
Would you cut down a tree without sharpening your axe? You wouldn't! In the same way, let your brain sharpen it's "axe" by taking regular breaks.
Focus on your "money" actions
Look, the only time you make money is when something is sold. This means your success partly comes down to two things: selling stuff or getting stuff to sell.
If you're not focusing on interacting with potential buyers (by creating content, sales copy, speaking directly, ect.) you're probably wasting a lot of time.
Likewise, if you're not finding or creating stuff to sell, you won't get very far.
The trouble is, we often get caught up in the technical stuff, even though those are not the things that bring us money! It's better to put about 80% of your time into the "money stuff" - Trust me, the technical stuff sorts itself out once the other parts are taken care of.
- Set a simple goal for the day and stick with it.
In Poland there is a saying "Spiesz się powoli!" ( "Make haste slowly!"). The trick is, you move faster when you slow down. It may sound crazy, but check it out.
If you can do just one task a day, all your energy will be focused on producing that result. Once you achieve it, the satisfaction will energize and motivate you even more to do the next one.
In the end, you are not overwhelmed but rather get a powerful feeling of achievement!
So there... those are my top 3 tips. I have been lucky not to work in a day job for a few years now, and these are some of the things that helped me.
What do you think? What are your favourite techniques? Write them below!
As you may have noticed, that's not always an easy task. In fact many give up due to all the stress involved. Combine that with you daily work, family, a spouse who may not always understand - and a whole lot of other things on your head.
Here are some of the things you can do to make things easier for yourself.
- Put in 7-10 minutes breaks at least once per hour
Your brain is a powerful machine, but it needs to re-energise itself. It automatically knows what to do so just allow it!
Would you cut down a tree without sharpening your axe? You wouldn't! In the same way, let your brain sharpen it's "axe" by taking regular breaks.
Focus on your "money" actions
Look, the only time you make money is when something is sold. This means your success partly comes down to two things: selling stuff or getting stuff to sell.
If you're not focusing on interacting with potential buyers (by creating content, sales copy, speaking directly, ect.) you're probably wasting a lot of time.
Likewise, if you're not finding or creating stuff to sell, you won't get very far.
The trouble is, we often get caught up in the technical stuff, even though those are not the things that bring us money! It's better to put about 80% of your time into the "money stuff" - Trust me, the technical stuff sorts itself out once the other parts are taken care of.
- Set a simple goal for the day and stick with it.
In Poland there is a saying "Spiesz się powoli!" ( "Make haste slowly!"). The trick is, you move faster when you slow down. It may sound crazy, but check it out.
If you can do just one task a day, all your energy will be focused on producing that result. Once you achieve it, the satisfaction will energize and motivate you even more to do the next one.
In the end, you are not overwhelmed but rather get a powerful feeling of achievement!
So there... those are my top 3 tips. I have been lucky not to work in a day job for a few years now, and these are some of the things that helped me.
What do you think? What are your favourite techniques? Write them below!
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