Someone emails, me and they tell, me that they, want to start a business but
They, don't have the time to do it they work, full time they
Have kids it must be so easy for you derek because you, don't have kids look, when you, want to pursue something
There's a good, chance you're already doing something else
maybe you have a full-time job
Maybe you have a pack of kids maybe you have a job kids and a sick relative time
is tight and you're tired so you, tell, yourself i
Can't do it right now
i just don't have the time i totally get it i
despite what these other motivational clowns
Say, hustle sleep is for the weak, sleep four hours a night it's a fantasy you need rest you need energy
And yeah you can tough it for a short
While but you can't do the whole no sleep thing for any extended period of time that said
There's one thing you should consider i probably shouldn't even say this
Because my goal is to grow. My youtube following and i feel like, saying this is going to alienate
Many of you watching this video you know, what i'm good at doing?
I'm derek halpern, you're watching planet derek the place entrepreneurs come to learn, how
To get ahead in business and in life and the one thing you should always expect
For me is the truth now here's a, deal you, may be lying to yourself about, how
much time you do or do not have i know i do and i know, better
Last year i felt like, i didn't have the time for any fun passion projects
Well like it was work eat sleep i traveled around the world had fun what else home, was work eat sleep
Business was good life
Was good but work eat sleep
and i got tired of it i had stuff i wanted to do but i told myself i didn't have the time for any of
It or at least that's, what i said it's funny how. That works right
there's something you
Want to do for fun for profit for any reason whatsoever and you just don't do it because you don't have the time
But is it really true, do you really, not have the time i decided to put it to the test
out of sheer necessity
So got a personal trainer i started go to the gym
again, i signed up for stand-up comedy class and i even
Went to some open mikes under a stage name i started doing, yoga, they just think yoga
People were weird i started taking guitar lessons because, why, not and i kept working at the time i'd launched two
new
Products the funny part i thought i had no time to do anything
but i did i
had plenty of time
I, was still working as much as i was working and i found the time to put into other areas of my?
Life so, what is the real problem then, well i had stuff that i wanted to?
Do but the truth was i didn't really know
How to get started let's use stand-up comedy as an example i've thought, about doing stand-up comedy for quite
Some time i like, making people laugh, i like being the center of attention and i like writing jokes so stand-up comedy
would be a natural fit of course i even
Went so far as to keeping an evernote document of things i could potentially talk about in my comedy routine i kept this running
for five
years five years i over 200 jokes but i never
Did anything with this document all i did was just list, my ideas, why didn't i do anything?
Well joke ideas were the easy part but what
Else did i need
i Wasn't sure i knew i had to write the joke into a routine i knew i had to practice them in front of a live
Audience but how
And where i read books i talked to comedians but still
What do i actually do on time for this and there it is i don't have time is?
Code for i don't know, what i'm supposed to do and i don't have time to figure it out but
When i stand up for a class everything changed after i sign up for a class i get my first open mic within
About two weeks?
Now, why am i sharing this example
Well i'm betting this might sound eerily familiar
You're, here because you, want to start and grow an online, business not much i know, maybe you, want to grow
Your, email list maybe you, want to generate more sales maybe you, want to start a blog it does matter how
Just like i had a list of joke ideas i'm sure you have a list of ideas as, well but how
Can you, make those ideas into a reality in my, case the secret
Was some guided instruction from an expert so that's what i think you should focus on doing look
We all have ideas on things, we would like to do at
Some point in the future and we even tell people about our ideas but, when, we look at
How we're spending our time we're putting in the easy, work the idea work but we're not
making the time to do the execution work and
It's not because, we don't have the time
We all have plenty of time you've got 10 hours a week i don't care, how
Many kids you have everyone has 10 hours a week you just need to use them appropriately back
When i started, my business i had a. Full-time job
What did i do i would show up to work an hour early and i would go to the coffee shop
Across the street and i would work on my business from that coffee shop
For one hour then as is typical at most corporate jobs i get an hour lunch break so what did i do?
I would eat in about five minutes i would go back to that coffee shop, and work on my
Business then at the end of the day what would i do i would go back to that coffee shop
And work on my business, we all have the time
It's just about whether or not you're willing to use it here's another example
Some people hate commuting on public transportation i've always kind of liked it i like trains you know
Why, i like trains because i could just get on the train and it takes me to where i got to go people
Who, drive to work to me are stupid if you have an hour commute get on a train
Take, some public transportation that is time that you can, use to work on your business that's time you could
Use the start a reading habit that's time you could use to listen to your favorite podcasts
Most people though i've been on trains you've been on trains right
Most people get on the train, they screw up on their phone that's the problem with, smart phones now
Anyway, is that back in the day, people used to read books on the train now
They're, just looking at their, social media profile anyway the bottom line is you might be telling yourself you
Don't have the time to do something, and maybe it's true
But you know, what i want to challenge you?
To, be better don't find five hours a, day
Don't find two hours a day find 30 minutes in the morning 30 minutes at night
One of the things i just said is as i said i would come to work an hour early and i would leave an hour
late
This is important a lot of people that, want to do something on the side or start something, new
They'll just show up to work and then they'll go home, and say i'll do the rest
When i get home?
You're!
Never gonna do when you get home for me it was important to show up to work early that
Way i was forced to do it in that hour time frame before work and it was important for me to stay late
So i would do it in that hour time frame before i went home i was
forcing
Myself to do a little bit longer hours and to put in the real time that's what you need to do
That's what anyone needs to do, who wants to pursue something, new?
We've all got time it's time that you use it and if you agree with, me like, this video
Now here's what i want have you ever lied to yourself about, how
Much time you do or do not have go ahead leave a comment below
This video and share your experience with managing
Your time and then if you're, new here can you subscribe to my, channel i've been pulling out a video every single
day, this, year
We're trying to get some subs
And on that note i'll see you in the next video
you