Don't Let Your Side Hustle Become Your Side Hassle
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Recently I was facilitating an entrepreneurship workshop and someone said: “Don’t let your side hustle become your side hassle.”
This immediately struck me and made me pause.
What a brilliant way to sum up how to build something while you are still full-time employed. Your side hustle should be something you do that is fun, engaging and will eventually make you some money on the side.
Your side hustle should not become a permanent hassle in your life.
It shouldn’t drain you, it should engage you.
It shouldn’t make you sad, it should inspire you.
You shouldn’t have to carve out time to force yourself to sit and work on it, you should be thinking about it all the time and have to stop yourself from working on it.
If your side hustle has become a hassle then it’s time to stop and reconsider why you started out in the first place. What are you trying to achieve? How much time do you want to allocate to building out your side hustle? Do you want it to be your full-time gig eventually? If so, when?
Once you have reconsidered all of these questions you can ask yourself if it’s time to throw in the towel or double down on your side hustle.
But don’t let your side hustle become your side hassle.