Earn Extra Money on The Side, Even When You Have No Free Time

One of the biggest complaints or obstacles people have about starting a side business or moonlighting is they just don't have any free time. They have full-time jobs, families, school. One person, however, writes how she had all those and earned over $50K last year on the side. This is how she did it.

Liz, a full-time law student who works part-time during the school year and full-time during the summer, just became a parent in November. With such a busy schedule, you'd think she wouldn't have time or energy to devote to other projects, but she made the $50,000 last year as a blogger, freelance writer, and website optimization consultant and outlined how she did it on Ramit Sethi's I Will Teach You to Be Rich site.



Place a Prewritten To Do List Next to My Computer - Each night before going to sleep I make a list of everything I need to accomplish the next day. I leave the list open next to my computer, so it's the first thing I look at each morning when I start work. Doing this triggers me to immediately start working on the listed tasks and not get sidetracked.
Have My Computer Open and On - I used to wait several minutes for my laptop to turn on each morning. While waiting, I would read emails on my phone and get distracted from that morning's priority tasks. Now, I leave my computer on as a trigger to get right to work.
Remove "Bad" Triggers - Because triggers cue you to do something, it's critical to remove triggers that cue you to start the wrong task. Now, as a nightly ritual I remove anything from my workspace that would trigger me to start working on the wrong task.





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