Running a side hustle requires a specific mindset. To succeed in this endeavor, it's crucial to shift your perspective and adopt the right mentality. By understanding the importance of a positive and determined mindset in running a side hustle, you can overcome challenges, stay motivated, and achieve your goals. Embrace the mindset needed for success in your side hustle journey.
As a side-hustler, I look over the fence to my full-time friends who work for themselves, sigh and say to myself, ahh sure would be nice. Those full-timers get to work from home, spend all day working on projects they love and in their pjs no less. The list of wonderfulness goes on and on.
But the fundamental difference between those who are full-time entrepreneurs and the rest of us who are side-hustlers, is the simple fact that one group of us needs to get the clients and the other group wants to get clients.
So, what is the mindset shift that needs to happen in order for us side-hustlers to get to full-time faster? Is there a mindset we need to adopt?
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When you work a full-time job and have your business "on the side" (aka side-hustler) you're waiting for clients to knock on your door and you're promoting yourself when you have time. In my situation, I leave for work at 6 in the morning and get home around 3:30 in the afternoon. And jumping right into more work after my day job can be exhausting.
Whereas on the other hand, if you're full time for yourself, you may be fearful of where your next client will come from, or worried about slow seasons when you have no clients on the horizon at all.
Both the entrepreneur and side hustler are getting things done, but one deals with legitimate urgency, while the other has no real deadline or pressure for getting clients.
Mark Your Calendar
Making things official when you put them on the calendar can give you some accountability that you may need. Write in dates for when you need to get certain things done and if you need to go the extra step, have someone keep you accountable. Maybe a trusted biz buddy or a spouse, someone who understands your goals and wants to help you achieve them.
Make a Deadline
If your day job is sucking the life out of you and you are in a place where you are desperate to leave, make a deadline for when you will make the leap. Sometimes having a do-or-die deadline in place is just what you need to start planning now and do your best to make the smooth transition.
Maybe you choose a date before you have clients, or you wait until you have a waiting list of clients. It's up to you how you want to make the switch but either way, having a deadline in place is a self-imposed and important nudge to make your goal happen.
Be Selective
It's easy to waste time. You pull out your phone and start scrolling through Instagram, then you realize 20 min later, you need to get back to work on your website copy. Or you hop on Facebook to find out what the latest ISO is for that FB group and an hour later you find that you've just been "reading around," when you really need to be planning out your blog post content.
The things that will move you forward are actual interactions with other people and understanding how you can help. If networking is what you need to be doing, then do that, or blogging about specific, relevant and important topics that will attract your ideal client.
People to Guide you
Who is on the outside of your business has a completely different perspective of your business than you. You may think that you're productive and busy but someone on the outside may see that you need help streamlining your workflows.
I suggest finding someone who can give you some advice who cares about you. It could be:
- A business coach
- A business bestie
- A spouse
Having people like this in your life can keep you on track with getting things done, with holding you accountable, with giving you tough love, and encouraging you to take risks.
So adopting the mindset of an entrepreneur can start by making urgency a part of your life by incorporating dates and deadlines which can force you to only work on things that are moving the needle forward and closer to your goals.
So where is your current mindset, do you have the mindset of a side hustler or of a boss? Which one of these tips can you implement to move you closer to your goal?