If you want to start a side hustle there’s one thing you’re going to have to have. It’s not knowledge or experience, it’s not even a great idea – it’s time. Of course, those other things are important, and ideally you will have them, but if you don’t have time, they don’t matter because you’re not going to be able to get your new business off the ground. So with that in mind, let’s take a look at how to make time for a side hustle so you can do what you need to do to make your life better and start the business you’re dreaming of. Read on to find out more.
Look At Your Schedule
If you want to create more time for your side hustle, you’re going to need to look at your current schedule to work out where your time actually goes – it might be that you think you don’t have time, but when you really take a look at what you’re doing, you’ll find you do (or you could do, and that’s just as important).
If you can see where you’re spending time and energy on things that aren’t important and can be postponed or even just taken off your to-do list altogether, you’ll instantly free up time to work on your side hustle, and it’s highly likely some of the things you’re doing right now fall into that category. If you’re finding it hard to organize yourself, why not invest in Airflow? That’s an automation tool that process all the things you have to do and creates a schedule for you to follow that ensures all your deadlines are met and tells you the order to do things in. It’s the ideal way to free up time and stay organized for yout side hustle needs.
Schedule Side Hustle Time
One reason that people don’t have enough time for their side hustle is that they don’t think of it as something they need to schedule into their lives – it’s an extra thing that will be done if there’s time, and if not, it’ll get delayed or lost to the sands of time.
If that’s the case for you, make one small change and you’ll find things are much easier – schedule side hustle time. In other words, make an appointment with yourself to work on your side hustle, just like you would make an appointment to see a doctor or have an important meeting. If you carve out time and set it in stone, you’ll soon find you can get a lot done even if you only have a few minutes to do it in. Plus, your side hustle will quickly become a habit, especially when you see it start to grow.
Use Micro-Tasks
The fact is that not every side hustle needs you to spend hours and hours at a time on it without interruption – some can be built up in just a short amount of time each day, and that’s especially true if you break your tasks into smaller ones that don’t take up much time but that can help move your business forward once they’re complete.
If you can do that, you’ll find you actually get a lot more done than you would if you tried to find large chunks of time, and the more you do it, the easier it will get.
