We are often told to have a game plan before you leave your day job and start life as a full time entrepreneur. Part of the game plan is making that entrepreneurial venture a side hustle. When that side hustle starts to make you enough money to leave the day job, then you can safely go. Or when you have at least 6 months salary equivalent you can start your new independent life. But how often does this actually happen? And worse what happens when you burn out in the process of juggling both. The choice in my journey was to get rid of my debts, get that six months padding and then say toodles. But that doesn't happen on its own. It's rare that your current job can give you enough margin to achieve those financial objectives in the short time an impatient entrepreneur wants to get things going. So it's either the side hustle or freelance work that will bridge the money gap. The challenge though is, those things require energy. In my case of product creation, my side hust
My father visited me a few weeks ago. It was the first time in my life that I'd been alone with him in one house for an entire week. I was hosting, the house was mine, my first in my name (once the bond is paid off) and I wanted him to be proud. He was, but he had some thoughts on areas of improvement. It upset me, why couldn't a full 20 minutes pass before a critique followed a compliment. Then I realized, thaaaat's where I get it from. I do that to myself. Eeek! It took me two days to share with him, that, I just wanted him to be proud and not look at what could be done better. He was really sweet about it and I'll tell you what he said later. But he wasn't wrong. There was a whole lot that could be done better. I knew it, I just didn't have budget for it, his assessment was spot on but I just wanted him not assess and just beam with pride. I've wanted my father to be proud of me since I was 14 and I went to him with that 97% history result. He asked