{"id":49246,"date":"2017-05-26T20:39:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T04:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/?p=49246"},"modified":"2017-09-12T14:14:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T22:14:18","slug":"how-to-build-your-side-business-while-working-full-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/blog\/how-to-build-your-side-business-while-working-full-time\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Build Your Side Business While Working Full Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><\/p>\n<p>Building a business is hard.<\/p>\n<p>What about building a business on the side while working full time?<\/p>\n<p>I built a freelancing business while studying dentistry, and I&#8217;m just 20 years old.<\/p>\n<p>And I forgot to mention that my GPA was 3.92 during my first 2 years.<\/p>\n<p>It seems impossible to a lot of people, but I did it.<\/p>\n<p>And the secret is rather simple. I know what I need to do, and I do it. But there&#8217;s a bit more to it than that.<\/p>\n<p>In this post, you will discover the 3-tier planning method I use to know what I need to do and how I carry out focused actions to get more done in less time.<\/p>\n<p>The result? You can build your business even if you don&#8217;t have a lot of spare time.<\/p>\n<h2>The &#8220;3-Tier Planning&#8221; Method<\/h2>\n<p>Your time is limited. That&#8217;s why planning is very important.<\/p>\n<p>Because planning can be complicated and because of specific problems I&#8217;ve faced from time to time, I&#8217;ve developed a simple process to help me plan things out and keep moving in the right direction. I call it the &#8220;3-tier planning&#8221; method.<\/p>\n<p>The 3-tiers are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 100,000-foot view<\/li>\n<li>The 10,000-foot view<\/li>\n<li>The 100-foot view<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s go into more detail about each of these.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: I have created a simple checklist to help you apply this planning method, so make sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/ahmedsafwan.me\/checklist-entrepreneurs-1\/\">grab your checklist,<\/a> then continue reading this post.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>The 100,000-foot view<\/h3>\n<p>Here you look at the big picture. I like to make it for every quarter or every 100 days.<\/p>\n<p>So you set a goal that you want to achieve in the next quarter and write out\u00a0a detailed plan about how you want to achieve it.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take an example:<\/p>\n<p>Goal: Create a product and start selling it in 90 days<\/p>\n<p>Steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Brainstorm product ideas<\/li>\n<li>Validate the idea by interacting with people on a FB group<\/li>\n<li>Outline the course<\/li>\n<li>Record every module<\/li>\n<li>Setup a membership site<\/li>\n<li>Setup an order form<\/li>\n<li>Create a sales page<\/li>\n<li>Offer a discount for my email list and get the first 10 customers<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now, we have the100,000-foot view. This will give you a clear big picture and ensure that you&#8217;re going to finish on time.<\/p>\n<h3>The 10,000-foot view<\/h3>\n<p>After you have the big picture, you need to know what tasks you need to accomplish in the next 2 weeks. I like this time frame because it&#8217;s not so long as to cause you to lose focus yet it leaves enough time for you to iterate as you go.<\/p>\n<p>So you set the tasks you need to accomplish in the next 2 weeks so that you&#8217;re not overwhelmed by the big picture plan.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing the example above, here is a simple 10,000-foot view plan<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Brainstorm product ideas<\/li>\n<li>Validate the idea<\/li>\n<li>Have a simple outline for the first 2 modules<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The reason I added this tier is that it ensures that you don&#8217;t take too much time doing the first tasks, which would result in a situation where the deadline would be approaching yet you would still be a long way from your main goal, causing you to take a lot more time to achieve that goal.<\/p>\n<h3>The 100-foot view<\/h3>\n<p>Now you set your daily tasks. You see what you need to do from the 10,000-foot view and plan your day around it.<\/p>\n<p>For the example above:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Brainstorm product ideas<\/li>\n<li>Start interacting with a group to know what they want<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now, you know what you need to accomplish by the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p>So when you returns from your job, you know the tasks you need to accomplish. Your job now is to do them.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve seen what the planning method consists of, now I&#8217;d like to share a tip about how to actually finish your daily tasks. This is how I get more done in less time:<\/p>\n<h2>The &#8220;Up Pomodoro&#8221; Technique to Get More Done<\/h2>\n<p>Now, after you know the exact tasks you need to work on, your job now is to actually do them.<\/p>\n<p>The Pomodoro technique is a great way to help you get more done in less time with greater focus.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not familiar with the Pomodoro technique, it&#8217;s a technique where you spend 25 minutes focusing on a task and then take a 5 minute rest and then repeat this cycle 4 times and then take a bigger rest.<\/p>\n<p>This enables you to eliminate distraction, which is the most important element to getting more done.<\/p>\n<p>But what does the &#8220;Up&#8221; in &#8220;Up Pomodoro&#8221; mean?<\/p>\n<p>The people at the Muse discovered something <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/advice\/the-rule-of-52-and-17-its-random-but-it-ups-your-productivity\">they call the rule of 52 and 17<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They found out that the people who work for 52 minutes and take a break of 17 minutes are the most productive people.<\/p>\n<p>So I started applying it and the results are astonishing. For simplicity&#8217;s sake I now work for 50 minutes and take a break for 10-15 minutes. The thing is that you combine 2 cycles of the Pomodoro technique.<\/p>\n<p>By using the 3-tier planning process and the Up Pomodoro technique, I&#8217;ve able to know what I need to do and work on it without getting distracted. This is the simple process that helped me build my business while studying dentistry.<\/p>\n<p>And to help you accomplish the same results, I&#8217;ve create a simple checklist for you to help you apply the techniques I&#8217;ve shared in today&#8217;s post and to increase your productivity by 300{54c12dad2cc2b53ae830e39915b1a3e70288dbcbbeb8bbf8395437c5dc3c512c}. <a href=\"http:\/\/ahmedsafwan.me\/checklist-entrepreneurs-1\/\">Grab your checklist here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building a business is hard. What about building a business on the side while working full time? I built a freelancing business while studying dentistry, and I&#8217;m just 20 years old. And I forgot to mention that my GPA was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/blog\/how-to-build-your-side-business-while-working-full-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12226,"featured_media":49781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[205,3709,6],"tags":[5305,1611,5995,1562,66,1304,4497],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Build Your Side Business While Working Full Time<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Building a business is hard. 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