Tuesday, November 22, 2011

You Can Keep Your Day Job and Hustle While You Work - Create Your M.O.R.E.

For a long time after I purchased Robert Kiyosaki's course, You Can Choose to be Rich, I felt that I had to just get out there and just "make it happen" because I didn't want to work a j-o-b anymore, I didn't want to work for someone else. I wanted to be my own boss and I couldn't wait. There was only one problem -- I had no damn idea what I was doing, what I was getting into and what in the hell it would actually mean to be in business for myself. It is scary as hell. I truly realize why so many of us won't do it. Not that we can't do it because I truly believe we can do anything we truly want to do if we have a strong enough desire to do it and that's why most of us choose not to pursue a business. It is hard as hell. Because you have to GROW YOURSELF to a magnitude the likes of which you have never even thought of before and that is scary as hell so no matter how bad you may want it, you won't go for it because it takes a lot of courage, persistence, desire, burning desire, and everything else you can possibly think of to keep you on the path that will ultimately lead you to Entrepreneurship, Business Owner, Proprietor, CEO, etc. It's easier to go to work for someone else so whoever you see in that position make no mistake about it they have truly paid their dues.

And the one thing I have come to realize that they probably kept their day job too and Hustled while they work because you still have to pay the bills. Now I know most people would say yeah well duh. However, I was thinking I could just blaze out there and make it happen. And I probably could have if I had GROWN MYSELF to the level and magnitude that I would have needed at that time. It takes as long as it takes. Everyone is different and we all start from a different place because we are all different with different levels of fear, self-confidence and self-validation to overcome. Whew!

I said all of that to say that I realize now that I should have always kept my dayjob but I must admit I had some illusion about what it would take to get there. I thought in my own little head that as long as that was what I wanted, it would just happen. Well, now that my forest is clear and I can see the trees, I realize that was a big mistake on my part and I admit that I was wrong.

Now, I know I want to create what I have coined my M.O.R.E. - Money Outside of Regular Employment which is my business. However, I realize that I still have to keep my dayjob and let go of the illusion that I can do it without it. If you find yourself feeling that way you have two choices; Either you can GROW YOURSELF exponentially quickly like overnight and do it or you can realize that you can keep your dayjob and just Hustle While You Work. This brings me to the book of the same name of a great book that I believe will benefit anyone who wants to take this path. I believe in this new economy you may almost not have a choice but to create another revenue stream because you can no longer depend on just your employer to provide for you and your family. Also, social security will probably not be around to provide the income that some of our parents, grandparents and maybe even great grandparents are receiving today. The new economy has created a gap that we will have to fill ourselves. The author, Hotep has written a great book on the subject...Keep your day Job and Hustle While You Work - Using Your 9-5 to Jumpstart to 5-9. Hustle While You Work. Check it out.