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The Courtney Sanders Podcast

002: How to Balance Chasing Your Dreams With Your 9-5 Job

The Courtney Sanders Podcast

Courtney Sanders

Business, Careers

4.8645 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2014

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On today's podcast I share my 5 strategies for balancing chasing your dreams with you 9-5 job. I've been doing this for a few years successfully, so I hope this inspires you to go hard on your side hustle!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Never give up on my call, working and pushing, and I'm not going to stop till it's gold.

0:22.4

I know I think and grow.

0:27.9

Hey, this is Courtney with think and growchick.com.

0:32.7

And today I'm here again with another podcast because I love these and these are so fine. So expect more for me

0:39.4

because I want to do them regularly. But anyway, I'm here to talk on the subject of balancing,

0:45.1

chasing your dreams with your nine to five job. So I see this question asked all the time on

0:51.1

the internet, tweets about this, people asking questions on Instagram.

0:55.6

I get a lot of comments in general around this topic, how to organize yourself, how to manage

1:00.8

your life so that you can still build what you need to build on the side to reach your

1:07.8

ultimate dream while working your 9 to 5 job.

1:17.4

So today I'm going to answer that because this is very relevant to me because this is what I'm doing.

1:25.6

Yes, many of you know, I have a 9 to 5 job, but even with that 9 to 5 job, I will pat myself on the back and say, I do a pretty good job of moving the ball forward on my dreams every day.

1:31.5

So I've been chasing them hard over this past year, and I plan to chase them even harder in 2015

1:38.1

so that hopefully we can have a major breakthrough in 2016 in terms of my business being my main thing and self-employment.

1:47.1

So we'll cross our fingers for that.

1:49.0

But in the meantime, I wanted to share five strategies that I use in order to build my business

1:58.0

on the side and chase my dreams and not get worn out.

2:02.7

So the first is you need to get really clear on what you want.

2:07.3

I meet with a lot of people, particularly women, and they know they don't like their job

2:12.2

or they don't want to be their long term and they have this kind of vague idea that they

2:16.6

want to do something else,

2:17.8

but they're not super specific, super clear on what it is that they want to do. So just having this

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