How to
Make Time For Your Passion Project if You Are Too Busy Working For
Someone Else
The time before work and after work is golden, and it’s usually
completely yours to schedule.
Choose
to spend some of that time on your passion project.
Morning
and evening routines are the “bookends” of a prosperous life, argues Darren Hardy in his book, The Compound Effect.
Move your wake
up time
Your morning sets the tone for the rest of your day.
Hal Elrod, author of “The Miracle Morning: The
Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life” explains:By simply changing the way you wake up
in the morning, you can transform any area of your life, faster
than you ever thought possible.”
Use
your mornings to achieve your goals and accomplish some pretty amazing things.
If you win most of your days, the years will take care of themselves.
The
hours after you wake up are truly precious because your brain is in one of its
most creative states of minds.
That’s
why many successful people put in an hour or so on their personal projects
before they officially start their days.
You
can get a lot done before dealing with other responsibilities at home or at the
office.
Carving
out the time in the morning to write, create, build, design, and making it a
habit, means you would actually follow through.
You
don’t even have to do a lot at a time. Taking small actions every day is what
matters.
Ian
Fleming, who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels maintained a
rigorous morning routine to stay prolific. He once said:
Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning,
‘Casino Royale’ dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections
until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day
before I might have despaired.
Early
mornings are your sacred time to start your day right — don’t fill it with just
news, email, social media, apps or notifications.
Don’t
focus on drastic changes in the beginning.
Start
slowly, by waking just 15–30 minutes earlier than usual. Get used to this for a
few days. Then cut back another 15 minutes. Do this gradually until you find a
suitable time that works for your passion project before your other work
begins.
Trying
to do too many things at once spreads your focus too thin, and makes success
less likely.
Change your evening routine
The
time between clocking out of work and hitting the sheets every night is yours
to do whatever you want.
How
you spend the hours before you go to bed reflects the value you place on the
most important things in life.
Using
that time to pursue something meaningful to you will immensely improve not only
your total well being, but sense of self worth.
Extracurricular
outlets don’t just boost your sanity — they feed
back into your day job and can actually make you more productive.
But the daily grind can easily overshadow passion
project like writing a book, starting a blog, learning a new language, starting
an online business, creating art, learning an instrument, designing, learning
to code, collecting and selling vintage objects etc.
The
biggest problem many people have is finding TIME to actually put ideas to work.
Striking
a balance and committing time, attention and energy to that one special project
that needs your focus is possible if you really want to pursue a meaningful
project.
The
trick is to turn that passion project into a habit!
What
you do every night after work can be life and career changing!
Don’t settle
Surprise
yourself every day!
It
doesn’t matter if you succeed or fail — all that
matters is that you made the effort. Simply taking action is often overlooked — but even the best idea is
nothing without action.
Decide
to pursue your passion project no matter how busy you are and create your best
life.
Give
yourself permission to create something you deeply care about.
Spend
your mornings and evenings wisely and your passion project will be within reach
soon. Set attainable monthly, weekly, and daily goals to help you take action
every day.
https://medium.com/@alltopstartups/how-to-make-time-for-your-passion-project-if-you-are-too-busy-working-for-someone-else-d7e88b70976c
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