Self-control is limited

There are no quick hacks that bring faster results.

Every incredibly successful person you know today has been through the boring, mundane, time-tested process that eventually brings success. 

Acquire relevant skills, experience or industry knowledge necessary and ensure you have the passion and competence for what you are going to work on.

A good start is to monetize the skills you already have that are related to the side hustle you want to establish this. And if you lack key skills that relate to your interests or the side hustle you want to create, there's no better time than the present to learn them. 

Your side hustle idea may seem awesome and disruptive to you, but your potential customers will likely ignore it like most “brilliant ideas” or even not have a need for it. So, ensure you're not creating a solution to a problem that doesn't exist, as this is one of the top causes of startup failures.

You can do that with objective feedback from potential customers and asking them to join a waiting list, pre-purchase your solution or hire you as a service provider. 

• Thinking really small: it accumulates and adds up in a big way;
  
• Shifting your evironment, so that good habits are easier to keep;
  
• Piggybacking new habits on old habits: 
  
• Surrounding yourself with good people:
  
• Keeping it simple: short lists, reachable;
  
• Picking yourself up when you fall.
  

We all have habits ingrained in our lives. Most of our good habits (if any) take us to eventual long-term success, and our bad habits take our time, health, happiness and money. Make a list of what all you do as a habit daily and see which ones are good and which ones are not.

Habits like spending hours on social media, binge shopping, and lying on the couch are a few examples of bad habits.

Life is unpredictable, but planning is still important. Use your phone's calendar and to-do list, or install an app to create daily and weekly plans:

• Plan even for small errands.
• Keep in mind that things take longer than you expect.
• Block chunks of time, or an entire day for a task.

• Centers on the customer process or journey and supports a clear business target.
• Involves employees from all relevant areas to find different ways of working a problem. 
• Challenge participants to reimagine an existing method to try to find the most efficient way to improve the customer experience.
• Sessions start with ideas but end with a working prototype.
• Output includes a clear development path that highlights all the steps needed to accelerate production and implementation.
• The hackathon concludes with a presentation to senior leaders, including a real-life demonstration of the new prototype and a roadmap of IT and other capabilities needed to bring the final version to market.
• Once the teams agree on what to do, those responsible for execution create a virtual model that the group vets, refines and re-releases in continual cycles until the new process or app meets the desired experience criteria.
• Management prevents the dissipation of enthusiasm and energy created on the hackathon by placing new processes to sustain it. 

• Learn to recharge by yourself. You can be enormously creative and successful once you know how to recharge.
• Create a life where you can have more time by yourself.
• Make small incremental moves towards the life you want to live.
• Ask yourself throughout the day: is this activity giving me energy or draining me? 
• Be humble enough to realize what you are not good at. 
• Self-esteem is great if you earn it. But if you have no gas in the car, faking your gas gauge won’t make the car run longer.

• Write down ten ideas a day to keep being creative.
• Read a lot to keep learning.
• “Execution ideas” are a subset of ideas. When you have an idea you want to test, think of the next execution ideas to get the idea done.

• Talk with friends who can help if you think the idea is starting to gain traction.

• Focus your execution efforts on the things you're skilled at and hire or outsource the other things.

• Work with people who are good at what they do, so you can be good at what you do.

• What is the behavior a person who is in shape? They go to the gym consistently
  
• What is the behavior of a prolific writer? They crack open a notebook every day.
  

A Reverse Budget looks at your current lifestyle and makes slow improvements over time until things are sufficiently better.

We look at how much we are spending eating out, commuting and daily indulgences and see the past quarter trends using your credit card and bank account spending.

When you look at our past spending patterns and trends, you can select one or two categories to focus and use one of these two approaches:

1. Tackle the high-dollar impact areas like housing, fuel, food, or healthcare, and see if those can be cut down to some extent.
2. Focus first on your 'disposable money' expenses like eating out, and entertainment and curbing those, gradually.

• Outcomes: changing your results - losing weight, publishing a book, etc.
• Process: changing your habits and systems - implementing a new routine at the gym, developing a meditation practice, etc.
• Identity: changing your beliefs - worldview, self-image, judgments.

1. Decide the type of person you want to be;
2. Prove it to yourself with small wins;

You have to become the type of person you want to be, and that starts with proving your new identity to yourself.

• The Overscheduler: Their days are determined from the moment they wake up to their evening routine.
• The Minimalist: They’ve got one or two recurring events, but a whole lot of white space so they’re “free” (at least on paper) for long stretches of work.

The most successful people consistently get their most important work done first.

Build recurring time for your most important work in the morning, before you start anything else. Your energy levels are naturally higher in the morning, but completing a meaningful task first thing has also a domino effect that pushes you through the day.