12 big ideas from 12 years of the Side Hustle show.

Now, the first 10 ideas here aired in the milestone episode 500 back in 2022,

and I'll be back at the end with a couple new ones to add for this 2025 edition.

Big idea number one is to set a vision for your life and determine why it's important to you.

Where do you want to go and why do you want to

get there? And who do you want to take along for the ride? Because without that driving motivation,

it's going to be too easy to quit. It's the same reason people give up on their New Year's resolutions.

They didn't want it bad enough. It wasn't that important to them. Otherwise, by definition, they would have made it happen.

I was never much into vision boards or affirmations or anything like that, but a couple

people challenged me in 2018 to actually sit down and write out a three to five year vision

of what life was going to look like.

One of those people was Brian Scudamore, the founder and CEO of 1-800 Got Junk.

My number one tip would be anyone out there who wants to improve their life,

improve their business, grow a business.

I'd say come up with your vision.

What is your painted picture,

I call it, of where you're going? Now, I sat down on a dock, my parents' summer cottage when I was

at a million in revenue and I wrote down on paper, one page double-sided, our painted picture,

which said we'd be in the top 30 metros in North America,

we'd be the FedEx at junk removal, we'd be on the Oprah Winfrey show. All these things that

more happened because we had a destination, a clear vision of what that future would look like.

So for anyone in life, I think it's what's your painted picture? What does your life look like

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