Paycheck Prison Break: Recent Episodes
James Wadsworth
Get information and inspiration to help you ditch the paycheck and become your own source of income. Track the journey of the host, James Wadsworth, from paycheck dependence to financial freedom.
You're not just sitting as experiences fly at you, trusting your filter to help interpret things. You are also generating. Generating thoughts, feelings, and ultimately, experiences.
It's how you respond to failure, yes, that determines your progress. But don't forget that it's how you respond to success too. Start every day with a few successes to build momentum.
Be patient and consistent, look for accelerators, and judge your side hustle like a side hustle, not a core job.
To make progress fast, start from exactly what you want things to look like when they're done and work backwards.
If we're doing this right, the side hustle should not detract from your day job performance, it should make you a better employee.
When you at the beginning of a learning journey, you should drop all expectations of "efficiency". We don't learn efficiently, in the typical sense of the word. We "waste" time making mistakes, taking wrong paths, etc. Give yourself permission to be inefficient and realize that the time is not wasted, its part of the process.
In the beginning it doesn't feel like progress is happening (see "Getting Ish Done" episode) but it is! Just keep it up, one day at a time!
What should you ACTUALLY be spending time on when you're at zero subscribers and zero sales, and how can you be certain that you aren't wasting time or just avoiding the hard stuff?
When you're at the bottom of the mountain looking up, the top can seem unreachable. But just remember, ever one who summit's does it one step at a time. It's a marathon, not a sprint.
When you're at the bottom of the mountain looking up, the top can seem unreachable. But just remember, ever one who summit's does it one step at a time. It's a marathon, not a sprint.
First of a series where we will examine how successful content creators and internet markets started at zero - what was their content like when they had zero subscribers? How did they build their audience?
Don't think it's too late for you to start, or too late for you to make it big. It's not too late in history, and it's not too late in your own life to do what you want to do and to be successful at it.
Focus on the thing, the one thing that will get you closer to making money outside of your full-time job. And while you're doing it, remember that the progress doesn't happen linearly, it happens with step changes.
Why you want to go for the market that all ready has players - avoid blue oceans and focus on a target market that has already been proven.
The key to getting started is not worrying about sucking - just understand that you will at first. But don't let that stop you from starting.