What's up, what's up Nick, Loper here. Welcome to the side hustle show because if you don't take

control of your time, life is going to pass you by in a hurry. This week we're taking a brief break

from our regular case study style interviews to tackle this topic of time. This is a common

struggle for entrepreneurs and side hustlers alike. So I want to present a 10 step process

for making an optimizing time for your business inspired by side hustle show guests.

First up, you got to want it. Almost by definition, we make time for what's most important to us.

Otherwise, we wouldn't be doing it, right? This is Saw L from Episode 359 on the driving why behind

his business effort. What kept me going was my fear. I was afraid to stay where I was. That's

the biggest thing for me. I'm one of those people where if I start getting afraid to stay where I am,

that fear is scary to me than the fear of trying to get somewhere else. That alone just drove

me 100% to say, hey, no stopping. If I could sit up for 16 hours and my whole day, I spoke to one

person and I could sell to my 35 out of life insurance policy that they may or may not get approved

for. If I could do that, I could sit up at right content all day. There's no problem.

When we spoke Saw was doing 13 to 15 grand a month from 6000 visitors to the site,

not a ton of traffic, all things considered. Obviously, some incredible results there from Saw,

but the line that stands out to me was I was afraid to stay where I was. I think that is a super

powerful driver. At some point, there needs to be a force, either internal or external,

to get over the inertia of doing the same thing and hoping for or expecting different results.

Mitch Davis put it this way in episode 324.

That's a line I refer back to quite a bit. You got to do something or tomorrow is going to be

the same. When you find that reality unacceptable, like Shane Sam's did, you have no choice

but to take action and do something about it. Long story short, I found out my son was being

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