How Do I Balance My Full-Time Job with My Side Business?

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today's question comes from Andrew, who has a question about balancing his side business with his full-time job. How does he balance his side business with his full-time job? If you love your day job but also want to grow your side gig, how do you commit to both without negatively affecting either of them? What can he do to invest more time in his side business? Andrew's website is at http://www.itcareerbuilder.com/. In this episode, I mention Chip and Dan Heath's book, Decisive, which is a great resource for figuring out how to make the right decisions when it comes to your work life and personal life. Learn more at http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/Decisive/. Do you have a question about balancing a full-time job with a side gig? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Also, if you'd like to share your tips for balancing the two, or want to comment on this topic, ask them on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/PatFlynn/ and use the hashtag #AskPat770. Thank you!

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0:00.0	Ask Pat.
0:05.1	Ask pat.com.com.com.
0:09.0	Ask Pat.
0:10.1	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:11.9	Welcome to Ask Pat.
0:13.8	Episode 770.
0:15.8	Thank you for being here today.
0:17.2	Welcome to the brand new year and another year's worth of Ask Pat starting now.
0:24.8	All right, thanks so much.
0:25.6	And here's today's question from Andrew.
0:28.1	Hi, Pat.
0:28.8	It's Andrew Gibson here from ITcareerbuilder.com.
0:33.3	I have been listening to your podcasts and building up my business from the beginning of this year.
0:42.4	I have a full-time job which I really enjoy and I've been doing this thing as a side gig essentially.
0:51.9	And it's at the stage now where if I'm going to do this, I need to
0:56.0	invest a whole lot more time. But the thing is, I've got my day job, which I really love. And
1:03.4	I don't intend actually giving that job up. Yet I'm not sure if I can give myself the full
1:10.7	amount to the business.
1:12.5	So just wanting to get your opinion on what options are out there.
1:18.2	And if you've come across this with other readers, thank you.
1:22.1	Hey, Andrew, thank you so much for the question.
1:24.0	You know, it's really interesting because when I was working my job as an architect,
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