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If you've started and quit more than five side hustles in your life, I want you to stop what you're doing right now and watch this video. And I want you to watch the entire thing, not just the first three minutes, cuz I can't help you if you don't stick around and watch the entire thing.
Now, why should you listen to this guy in his bright blue shirt? I'll tell you why. My name is Brian O'Neal and I started 26 different side hustles in 15 years and I quit on every single one of them. And I blamed the side hustle and every outside circumstance you could possibly think of except for me. The 27th one worked and it had nothing to do with the side hustle that I picked. I was able to leave my nine-to-five job that I had for 25 years in just nine months after trying for 15 years. And I was able to two and a half times my income in 18 months. So, I know a thing or two about this and I can help you end your side hustle search forever. You watch this video, I'll give you the steps and you will get to the point where you're no longer searching for side hustles and doom scrolling at midnight.
Before we do that, I'm going to tell you some of the mistakes that you're making so you can understand that these are the wrong way to approach side hustles. And the biggest mistake that I see people make is you grab this thing. You grab your phone and you start scrolling and you're looking for a way to make extra money. Maybe you're just looking for a few thousand per month, $1,000 per month, whatever it is. Maybe you're straight up looking to replace your entire 9-to-five salary because you're sick of your job and you want to build your own thing. I get that. I did that for years.
Here's the problem. You're looking for stuff that you know nothing about. And you are strictly going at it with the mentality that I just want to earn money because my situation sucks and if I have enough money, I can leave this situation and my new life will be better. And I'm telling you that that is an error because having more money does not make you a happy person. It does not mean you you that you can build a business that doesn't suck as much as your job or more than your job. Trust me, I did it and I gave up on that business.
Instead of looking at the side hustle fad of the month that you know nothing about like you know nothing about dropshipping. You don't know anything about starting a blog or YouTube automation or how to buy a business or real estate investing. You don't know anything about that. But you're looking at it and you're saying, you know what, other people are making money. I could probably do it, too. And the reality of it is is that maybe you can. There are plenty of success stories, but it's super difficult. And as a mid-career professional, if you're someone who's in their 40s and you have a full-time job and you have a family, you have a busy life, you don't have time to learn a brand new skill. You usually give up on it. It takes a minimum of 20 hours to learn that brand new skill. Then you still got to go out and do the business. And again, in your current situation, you don't have a lot of time for that.
So, what happens is is you end up starting that side hustle, that business, that real estate thing, or that dropshipping thing, and you dabble in it a little bit, and then you start getting into it and you realize, I don't even like this, and this is too hard. And then you give up, and you go back to the next thing, and you repeat that cycle over and over every 3 to six months. and all of a sudden 10 years go by and you're in the same exact spot and you're just even more pissed off. So, stop doing that. And I'm going to tell you how to do it before the end of this video. I promise you. I'm going to teach you how to pick the best side hustle, the best business for your life.
The second mistake that I see people make, and this drives me absolutely crazy, is you are convinced, and it's not your fault. It's what social media is putting out there and all these millionaire mentor gurus are putting this out there which is you think you need to have two or three different side hustles to replace your one 9-to-five income. And I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but that is just dumb. Think about it. You're busy. You have a full-time job. You have a family. You have kids. You have no time. and you expect that you are going to replace your six figure salary working two different side hustles in onethird of the time and you're going to do it in a short amount of time. Tell me how that makes sense on any planet. You can barely manage your life as it is with your full-time job. One business is all you need. You do not need to replace your income with three, four different side hustles. You're dividing up your free your free time amongst two or three different side hustles. That is a recipe for failure and I have lived it. So trust me, it does not work.
There has not been anyone that I've known in my entire life in my 51 years on this planet that has been able to pull that off. There's a reason you have one job. There's a reason that your employer wants you to have one job because they know that you can't focus on two and be your best and perform. Same rule applies when you start your business. You can only focus on one at a time. If you're trying to spread yourself amongst three side hustles, the person who's focused on one will whip your ass every single time, and it won't even be close. So, quit thinking that you have to have multiple streams of income to replace your one 9-to-five income. You need one. You need to go all in on that.
Here's the third mistake that I see people make, and I've alluded to it a bit already, is that you give up too soon, and that comes from violating rules number one and two over and over again. But the reason that you're stuck, and the reason that you're still doom scrolling on your phone for the perfect side hustle that's going to make you x number of dollars per month at 90 days, working a third of the time, is because you give up too soon. And that can be three weeks or that can be three months, that can be six months. I've done it all.
You need to de develop a different mindset in terms of your business and your income potential. Think about where you are right now with your income. Think about how much money you're making right now in your nineto-ive job and how long it took you to get there. You had to go through 16 years of schooling if you went to college and then you had to work through your corporate job. Maybe you had to change jobs to get to where you are right now. Now, you don't need to develop that same attitude with a business. You just need to give yourself a longer time horizon because you already have the skills and you already have the knowledge and you've already learned how to do a bunch of stuff. Hint hint, that's going to be one of the things I'm going to cover here in a minute. But you can't give up when it doesn't go your way. You have to think longer term just like you do with your job and with any type of an investment strategy that you have. If you invest in a 401k, you're long-term hooked into that. So, you need to do that with your business.
Okay. Now that we're going to stop making these mistakes, we're not going to do that anymore. Okay? We know what not to do. Now, what do I do? How do I how do I pick the business? I'm going to tell you that right now. You're a mid-career professional. You've been in a job probably for 10 or 15 years. Again, I was in sales for 25 years, 17 years with the same company. I never once considered that I could help people with sales, something that I was good at doing. Never even considered it. Instead, I started a real estate business. Brilliant idea. Now, it worked. And it worked because I did not commit the other two crimes over and over again and I stuck with it. And I'm going to get to that why that worked in a minute here.
But I need you to look at what you already know how to do. And I'm going to leave a free resource in the description. It's called the skill to business formula. It's 100% free and it with the use of AI with Chad GPT. It's going to help you discover the best business for you in one of these three areas of your life. And those three areas are this. Your nineto-ive job. I want you to look at your job right now. What do you do for your work? What problems do you solve? By the way, you're getting paid for that job. You're getting paid for your skills. This is the thing that most people discount.
If you're in sales, and I I'm just using sales as an example. This applies to any industry. If you're in IT, if you're a project manager, if you're a nurse, if you're a teacher, whatever you are, you have skills from your nine-to-five job that are transferable to an online business, a remote business. I would sell something for a million and my commission, let's just say it might have been $10,000, right? Well, I'm sitting here thinking I'm worth $10,000 when in reality, I was worth $1 million. I had the ability to earn a million dollar. I was just paid $10,000. So, I want you to think about that if you're in sales. Your income potential is not what you're getting paid. It's what you bring into the company. So, think about what you do in your job. What problems do you solve? And how much money do you make the company or how much money do you save the company? If you're in some type of customer service or retention strategy position, think about that. And then if you forget, look at your paycheck. And just look at your paycheck as, hey, I'm getting paid for my skills and this is what they think I'm worth. They're a paying customer. Your employer is a paying customer. Period. Shift your mentality around that. They see the value in you. They chose you. They interviewed other people. They said yes to you. If you got promoted, same thing. They had options. They had choices. They chose you.
If you don't think you're good at sales, what do you think a job interview is? Those are all sales calls. You putting your resume together, listing out all your skills, everything that you're good at, all the stuff that you know how to do, that is a sales pitch 100%. That is an offer. You can absolutely run a business if you can get a job and keep a job 100%. And you need to start shifting the way that you think about that. So look at your job first. That's where we start.
The second place that we look is any type of life transformation that you went through. And if you're midcareer, if you're over 40, you have likely gone through some type of a transformation, right? Maybe you lost weight, maybe you went through a relationship change, you went through a divorce, right? Or maybe you overcame something like you had a you had a mindset shift, right? or you had a faith shift or a spirituality transformation. Whatever it is that other people are struggling with and you could help them. Maybe you got out of debt. I want you to really really search that and think about that because if you went through it, if you solved your own problem and you achieved a result, you can monetize that transformation because likely other people have gone through it as well. So that's the second area.
The third area is maybe you just don't like your job. You want nothing to do with it and you truly don't think that there's any skills there, right? And you've gone down that path and you're like, I just don't like that. Maybe you have a hobby, right? An interest on the side that you've developed over the years. And I'll give you a perfect example of someone, a real life example of someone who's in my mastermind group who is a salesperson. He's got an inside sales job for his 9 to5, but he was a 19year soccer player and a soccer referee. He built a community and a business around that. So, hobby, interest, skill on the side, took ran with that. So, think about that and how you could monetize those sets of skills outside of your nineto-ive job.
If anyone has ever said to you like, "Hey, you should start a business around that." It's like those are signals. If people ever say that to you, you should really start a business around that thing. Or if people are asking you for help at your 9 toive job or they're asking you for help in your personal life, like those are all signals. Those are buying signals like, "Hey, I need your help. I you're good at something." Think about ways that you could monetize that. I want you to run through the skill to business formula. It's going to help you in more detail. You have to use chat GBT to do it. It's really easy to do. I've made it simple to do and I have a walkthrough video. So, that's in the description. That is free. Don't get it now. Wait until the end of the video to lock that in.
Here's the second thing that you need to do. That's really, really important. When you're going to build a business, especially at this stage in our lives, we're a little bit older. I want you to f I want you to take your time. There's no rush here. Don't be in desperation mode. All right? It'll come to you if you're patient and you think about it from this angle. Instead of thinking like I have to earn this money or else, you know, something terrible is going to happen. It's like just pump the brakes a little bit. You need to first figure out what you want your life to look like first. If you don't have some type of idea or a target or a destination of what you would like your life to look like, then spend the time to do that. Seriously. And it doesn't have to be fully fleshed out like you have to know exactly what you're doing 5 years from now. I'm not going to put you through that that exercise. Just know what you would like your life to look like and what you would like to be doing, who you would like to be doing it with. That will give you a clear idea of what type of business that you should start. Because if you want to be doing a bunch of charity work or spending a lot of time with your family or only working four hours a day, don't build a business that's going to require a 100 employees. Right? Think about that. So vision first. Define what you want your life to look like. Define how much that life would potentially cost. Like what what do my expenses need to be? You'd be surprised you go through that exercise that you'll need a lot less money than you think you do. A lot of people would just say, "Hey, I want to earn a million dollars a year." When 250,000 will get the job done, right? Or some something like that depending on what you want. then build a business that allows you to live that lifestyle or get you closer to that lifestyle. So vision first, then build the business.
And while we're on this topic, and before I get to the last thing that I want you to do that's going to help you end your side social side hustle search forever, is be okay with the fact that you might pivot, that you might change business models, that you might start doing one thing and end up doing something else. That's okay. I did it. The point is to get started and get in the direction of where you would like to go. That's why you do the vision piece. The vision exercise is really important so that you know where you're going.
Okay. The last thing, and this is really important. This is going to be in a couple of parts here. The mistake that I said is that people are jumping from side hustles to side hustles, right? You started five or more. I started 26. any one of those 26 side hustles I would have absolutely dominated. I would have absolutely crushed if I would have just stuck with it. That was the issue. It had the fact that I chose real estate had zero to do with the fact that I left my job in 9 months and two and a half times my income in 18 months. It didn't matter. I could have done that with all the other stuff that I had dabbled in. I just wasn't willing to commit. I didn't ask for help and I didn't get around people who were also doing it. That was one of the things that I discovered when I joined a mastermind group for my for the real estate business is I was around other people that were doing it too and I was like, "Oh, they're just like me. They're going through the same stuff. I'm just as capable as they are." And once I saw that, I really became motivated and I was like, I can do this because I had a ton of doubt. You may not think it watching this video, but I can tell you that I had a lot of self-limiting beliefs. I did not believe that I could do it. Even though I was a very successful sales guy in my nineto-five job for years, when it came to business, I just didn't think I could do it. I didn't think it was possible. And I'm telling you that it is possible. You just have to get around different people. You can't hang around a bunch of nine-to-five people if you want to build a business because the nineto-five people are going to tell you to stay in the job. And your parents and the people that have never started a business, if you're getting advice from them, stop getting advice from them because they're going to tell you to stay in said job. Most of them will because they've never done it before. So, you got to get around people who have actually done it before and are doing it and can tell you like, you know what? Hey, this isn't going to be easy, but it's not as hard as you think it is. And if you simply stay the course, if you stick with it, if you give yourself a timeline that is not three or six months for crying out loud.
Imagine, I want you to go back to the first side hustle that you ever tried. Like I said, if you're watching this video, you've started five or more. If you would have stuck with the first one and you were still doing it right now, do you think you would be exactly where you want to be right now or that much closer? So, we have to stop pivoting and switching it up because the pivot is exactly what crushes your dreams, resets the clock, sets you back. You got to start over. Like I'm amazed that I survived 26 side hustles and I'm still here because that would that would destroy most people. Like you get to the point where you just don't even want to try anymore. It's like I'm just going to accept my fate which is I'm going to work in this crappy job trading my time for dollars, missing my family, and hopefully have enough money in my retirement account when I'm 65 years old and then I can start living it up. Like I don't know where that playbook came from, but that's the one we're all living by. And you don't have to.
Those are the steps. That's all you need to do to finally get off this hamster wheel of side hustle hopping. It's not necessary. You don't need to watch any more YouTube videos. You need to go into the description, take my free skillto business formula, and pick a business that you already are qualified for. You're getting paid for your skills right now. And I do this because I just literally want to shake people when they discount what they're doing at their nineto-ive job. I appreciate you watching this video. I speak this way because I'm super passionate about helping people and I want to help you, but you have to take the action. I can't help you if you don't take the action. I'll see you on the next one. You got this. Let's go.