Are you a single-income earning employee who has wanted to start an online side hustle for years because you want to earn more income to help alleviate the ever-increasing cost of living?
Is the main reason you haven't started because of fear of failure and lack of self-belief and skill?
Do you get stuck in a doom cycle where you beat yourself up and think of yourself as a failure, and your great ideas end up on the “trash heap?”
Once you get going, you will discover that you are more capable than you think, and you will increase your self-belief to diversify your income and earn more money.
"Fighting Your Fear of Failure"
"Feeling Lost and Confused"
"Failure, Been There Done That"
You will get over 200 atomic essays detailing my “practice in public” digital writing journey from novice to published author. I had to overcome all the barriers that you are facing in wanting to start an online side hustle and diversify your income.
I'm giving away a "pre-publication" version for FREE before the final product sells on Amazon for $19. I want to hear from readers about what you find most valuable and insightful.
I am building an Email Education Course with an action-based workbook. This course will take you from reading atomic essays to frameworks, templates and specific actions for starting and growing your online side hustle.
#Q1. Have you wanted to start your online side hustle but haven't been able to take the first step out of fear of failure?
#Q2. Have you started a side hustle but gave up when you got stuck and self-doubt crept in?
#Q3. Do you want to discover more about who you are and what holds you back?
#Q4. Do you want to reframe your negative stories so you can build resistance to keep going?
#Q5. Do you want to find out about what drives the actions of every human being?
#Q6. Do you want to embrace failure and use failure to be more successful?
#Q7. Do you want to learn to think more clearly and stop thinking incomplete thoughts?
FEAR OF FAILURE
So many people are worried about what others will think when their first online side hustle doesn't work out and make millions in the first year. The reality is no one cares because they are so worried about what others think of them that they aren't thinking of you. And I have a great atomic essay about what real friendship is all about.
I'M NOT GOOD ENOUGH
Steve Jobs famously said, "The world is created by people no smarter than you." When you say to yourself, "I am not good enough," that is your ego speaking. Your ego wants to stay warmly wrapped up in its comfort zone. Stretch your comfort zone just a little bit and get started. You will soon find out you can stretch it a little more. Before you know it you will be in a whole new neighbourhood. But, get started.
IMPOSTER SYNDROME
When you haven't done something before, your brain makes up stories about why no one will trust or buy from you and how the world will think you are not worthy. The only way to get over this is to embrace it and recognise that once you have made a start, you are ahead of all those who haven't started. That makes you way above average and worthy of shining light on the path for those who need what you offer.
This is not a "how-to" book to start a company and build a website.
This book is not about marketing and audience growth.
This is not a book about how to write a business plan.
This is not a book about what industry is hot and what products you should sell.
This is not a book about how to make money and get rich quickly.
Your side hustle will have to fit into your life. That means finding time to build, think, problem-solve, and create customer value. Life cannot only be about work, business, and making money. You must make time for the other important things in life. (I wrote an atomic essay, "You Don't Have to Have Everything Sorted," about organising your priorities.)
Two of my priorities are health and fitness. I have written about my daily running habit, which I call #Runeveryday. My running journey has taken me from being injured with a ruptured Achilles Tendon to the fittest I have ever been at age 51. This journey has been about goal setting, consistency, resistance, discipline, injury, recovery, time management, the importance of ritual, balance, sidetracks, natural beauty, grinding and more. There are 29 atomic essays under the section #Runeveryday. If it weren't for #Runeveryday, I would not be able to #Writeeveryday. The one inspires the other.
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Here is why you should buy my book –
Most people suffer from some form of self-doubt because they believe that they are not good enough. When this happens, they spiral into negative thoughts and inaction. This behaviour results in missed opportunities and inertia because they fear failure.
I suffered from this for most of my life because I thought I would never live up to other people’s expectations.
Eventually, you will realise you have wasted years of your life caring about what others think of you when, in reality, they are never thinking about you. They are only thinking about themselves.
The bar has been set so low on what it takes to stand out and own your space. You have wanted to start your side hustle and talked yourself out of it for all the reasons above.
Here is the list of everyday side hustles that are left gathering dust on your shelf because your fear of failure overcame your desire to get started:
Start a YouTube channel.
Write a newsletter.
Write a book.
Start a podcast.
Get fit and healthy.
Start your own business.
Did you know? To be in the top 1% of podcasters, you only have to record 100 podcasts. That is one a week for two years or two a week for a year. That requires a bit of consistency – I wrote an Atomic Essay on that; it is the first in this book.
"Just in Time - Get Sh*t Done" is about getting started, keeping going, overcoming self-doubt, not overthinking it, and so much more. You will learn about keeping agreements, leadership, failure, resilience, value creation, and more.
This book contains lessons and insights I wish I had known when I was 21. If you act now, you will save years and build wealth beyond what you can imagine. It is all about time and exponential compounding. I wrote atomic essays on both of those topics.
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