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You Need Harmony

Whether you are just starting out with a side business or have been working on it for years, this episode provides actionable methods to balance your day job and side job.

Trying to excel in your career while also pursuing your passion by building your own business can be problematic to say the least.

But, it doesn’t have to be so difficult.

6 Ways to Balance Your Day Job and Side Job

You’ll hear 6 methods I’ve used over the past several years as I’ve continued to move forward with my career while still creating something personal on the side.

1. Keep Commitment Levels Separate, But Commit to Both

While it is important to ensure that you get your work done at your day job, there are moments throughout the work day that you can commit to the side job.

Learn to use your time efficiently and effectively, even the time that seems forgotten. (TWEET IT!)

2. While Your Commitment Levels are Separate, It is Imperative that You Still Blend Them

Make sure that you take your years of experience in the day job and invest it into your side job. Likewise, make sure you bring all of the fresh and innovative approaches gathered from your side job over to the day job.

Both sides will realize benefits.

3. You Can Talk About the “Other” Job

While it is ok to mention your side job at your day job, it’s important to realize the sensitivities and the issues that may arise from having both pursuits.

Keep your mentions of each at a minimum to limit potential conflicts.

4. Maintain Separate Environments

It’s important to maintain separate environments. You may find an ideal setup to be one where you have social media accounts, email, and even computers dedicated to your side job, while you have an entirely different set of accounts and devices for your day job.

Keeping components separate allows you to logically manage each individually.

5. Don’t Hide From Either Job

Embrace the beauty of being diversified in skills and in talent. Never be ashamed of the awesome work you are doing on the side. Also, don’t be afraid to let those in your side job niche know what you do during the daytime.

Your ability to succeed at two entirely different pursuits demonstrates your genuine badass-ery. (TWEET IT!)

6. Always Make Time for Your Family

This is the golden rule. If you take one thing away from this post, understand that family is always the top priority.

Never let your responsibility to your family be driven aside by secondary pursuits of your jobs. (TWEET IT!)

5TIL

In this week’s 5 Things I Learned, you will hear about…

1. How to embed your podcast episode in a tweet so that your audience can immediately, and easily, access your content.

2. An interesting way to drive attention to your content/product using a capability called Sniply.

3. Free tools from SimplyMeasured that provide you deep level analytics for some of your most used social accounts.

4. Shoes that have auto-laces. Yes, just like those fancy kicks in Back to the Future 2.

5. SnapChat’s new money transfer service.

Your Turn

Now it’s your turn to join the conversation. How do you balance the day job with the side job? What is one key tip you would love to share?