What Time Are You Willing To Sacrifice For Success?
For this post I’m going to make an assumption you have started on the path to make an income online and currently have a full-time job (It’s OK if this description doesn’t fit you though).
I want to talk about the biggest sacrifice you will make on your journey to replace your day job income, TIME. In the end time is the most valuable thing we have and it is almost always the primary currency to make a lifestyle change.
As you have probably already figured out time is always the bottle neck (no, it’s not money). There are opportunity costs associated to everything so one of the first steps to making your dream a reality is defining what you are willing to sacrifice in terms of time. This is something you need to really think about and stick with. You need to allocate your time for your online venture and make it routine. If you don’t do this you will likely fail (no sugar coating here).
To help you, I’ll take you through the decision making process I had when I was working my full-time job.
Goal: To work at least two hours per day on my web sites
Options:
At lunch – This wasn’t really an option for me as I typically had very little time for lunch at my job.
After work, before I would go to bed – This is an option for many but I value time with my family more than anything so it was a non-option for me.
Late night – I would guess this is the option for most people. I don’t function well when I’m tired so it wasn’t an efficient use of my time.
Weekend work sessions – By sessions I mean 6+ hours, basically a full work day. This didn’t work for me because of the family time and because the web sites I was working on at the time required daily input.
In the morning before work - This was the option I chose. I could get up and work a few hours before I had to go to my job and I didn’t miss any time with my family because they were all sleeping.
Outcome: I would get up between 3:30 and 4:00 am at least 6 days a week and work on my web sites. I did this for 5 years before I was able to quit my day job.
(Note: I failed a lot over those 5 years. My goal with this web site is to drastically reduce that time for you.)
Most people that hear about the schedule I kept immediately say, “There is no way I could do that!” To be honest, I didn’t think I could either before I tried it. I have never been a morning person and I always thought I required at least 7 hours of sleep per night. Thanks to coffee and some mental effort I was able to make it a routine to the point that it became second nature. I realized that although I would prefer 6+ hours of sleep I could work efficiently in the morning with only 4-5 hours of sleep. In fact, I still get up during the 4 am hour to this day. It is my most productive time of the day. This was my sacrifice. It was challenging and became very difficult at times but it was well worth it. *yawn* 
I want to finish this post off with a question for you:
If you have already started your online venture, what time do you sacrifice?
If you haven’t started yet, what time do you see yourself giving up to make it happen?
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