It can get very hard to find time to work on those things that need attention in your side hustle. A full time job, studies, children to look after, cooking, cleaning and doing the laundry fill up those free moments.
Here are some ways you can shop for time and regularly do those things that need to be done for your side hustle
Use the Lunch Break
Wherever you will be in the day, you will break off for lunch. If you do not have to finish off a project, pick up the kids or attend a lunch time meeting. You have one hour more or less to go through your hustles to do list.
Use the lunch time to check-in on the business, answer a query, make a query, arrange a delivery to the customer and post the photos you took of the new product. You can eat and post easily, so set aside this time for the hustle.
Do the same thing every day, until your brain is cued to when you sit down to have your lunch it knows what to do. And that is open your phone and check on your side hustle. Repeat this every lunch time and you will create a habit that comes easily and naturally. Remember it is your time to use as you wish. Do not forget to eat your lunch!
Claim Some Time at Home
Home brings a lot of distractions, and despite your good intentions and planning, distraction can disrupt your hustle time. To avoid this happening, claim a time and stick to it. Tell your spouse, roommate, child or parent that at such and such a time each day, you are not available.
Easier said than done with noisy kids, a demanding parent or spouse but you must keep right on doing what you need to do. Every day at the same time or at a different time as long as you say you are not available, make yourself unavailable. They will gradually get used to it if you keep to it. Especially when you keep to the time allotted.
One hour, 2 hours, 30 minutes. Claim this time in the house and get to it. When the time elapses, that is it you are done. You may not have been able to do it all but you will find that you did get quite a lot accomplished.
On the days when you are so busy that you feel you cannot give your hustle some time, take a quick few minutes and jot down a note to return to when the time comes. You don’t want to forget an idea or a change that can be life changing!
