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The world is quickly shifting to the freelance era. Over 35% of people in the US have some type of side hustle. There are more of us than ever before working on a side business. The big issue that we all face is how to balance it. If we push too hard we could jeopardize both jobs and if we move too slow we risk never gaining momentum.

Here are seven ways to keep the side hustle moving, in balance:

1.Determine Priorities

2. Set goals and timelines

3. Time Block

4. Space Block

5. Be ready to sacrifice

6. Hire or automate

7. Learn to live with the tension

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Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast for the creative dreamers and doers. Whether you're just getting started on your creative journey or your well on your way this is the place for you.

Each week I help you discover your identity and develop a life and career in alignment with who you are. The journey onward starts here.

Join us for Monday Night Live on FB and IG Live 8:30 pm EST.

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It's go time! You've set some goals for this year to help you make a living doing what you love, and it's time to act on it. I work with a lot of launches and there are always three things launches do.

1. They have to set a launch day. When are you going to start moving towards the big goal. Set a date and make it official.

2. Market. In this case the target is yourself. There are so many competitive voices fighting for your attention, make sure to keep your goals and ideas at the front of your mind.

3. Be patient and Hustle. More often than not things start gradually. Don't be disappointed if the results come in slowly....they usually do. While it builds...keep hustling. Startups require constant energy and usually go through multiple pivots and tweaks. Your big idea or goal is the same, keep at it and put in the time.

Let's make this Your Best Year Ever!

This is Day Seven of "Your Best Year Ever". A seven day podcast series on Onward Creatives.

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Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast for the creative dreamers and doers. Whether you're just getting started on your creative journey or your well on your way this is the place for you.

Each week I help you discover your identity and develop a life and career in alignment with who you are. The journey onward starts here.

Join us for Monday Night Live on FB and IG Live 8:30 pm EST.

For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:

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Business is all about investment and ROI. As you look at 2019 there are three things that I guarantee will give you a significant return on your investment.

1.Invest in yourself. Use your time wisely and learn: podcasts, Youtube videos, books.

2.Network. Not the boring "hand out business card" type of networking but real networking....the kind that builds referrals.

3.Get into community. The impact of this is profound. Your chances of success increase when you have people investing and resourcing you....and holding you accountable.

You can't be better and be the same. If you want 2019 to be different than 2018 than do things differently.

This is Day Six of "Your Best Year Ever". A seven day podcast series on Onward Creatives.

Want more information on coaching or the Mastermind Groups? Sign up here for a free consultation.

Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast for the creative dreamers and doers. Whether you're just getting started on your creative journey or your well on your way this is the place for you.

Each week I help you discover your identity and develop a life and career in alignment with who you are. The journey onward starts here.

Join us for Monday Night Live on FB and IG Live 8:30 pm EST.

For more inspiration and resources for your life visit us at:

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Regardless of what you want this year I can promise you this, you will face resistance! The world doesn't like change and does everything it can to keep you just like you are.

You will face three primary types of resistance:

1. Yourself--this is the number #1 de-railer to most ideas and goals.
2. Others--some people will fight change of any type and instead of cheering you on will do their best to hold you back. Sometimes their friends, co-workers even family.
3. Lack of resources--it could be skills, networks, financial knowledge or time.

This is Day Five of "Your Best Year Ever". A seven day podcast series on Onward Creatives.

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Click on this link, give us your email and download the plan. This episode of the podcast walks you through exactly what you need to know for each part of the plan. If you take the time to work this through you will build a strong foundation for your creative business.

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Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast for the creative dreamers and doers. Whether you're just getting started on your creative journey or your well on your way this is the place for you.

Each week I help you discover your identity and develop a life and career in alignment with who you are. The journey onward starts here.

Join us for Monday Night Live on FB and IG Live 8:30 pm EST.

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What if I could give you a better way to set goals? A way to set them would increase your likelihood of achieving them? The better way to set goals is to focus on the "how" instead of the "what".

So often we set a goal on the what, which is the result. Results are vague and can often be accomplished multiple different ways. We need the opposite of this if we want to increase our chances of accomplishing our goals. We need specifics and a process....these are found when we define "how" we get the results.

This is Day Four of "Your Best Year Ever". A seven day podcast series on Onward Creatives.

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Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast for the creative dreamers and doers. Whether you're just getting started on your creative journey or your well on your way this is the place for you.

Each week I help you discover your identity and develop a life and career in alignment with who you are. The journey onward starts here.

Join us for Monday Night Live on FB and IG Live 8:30 pm EST.

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What does the ideal future look like? One of the key steps to living your best year ever is defining what success looks like. Define every part of it, what is feels like, what the results are. Now define your current reality. Look at what you're doing, what it feels like, what you're not happy with. Between these two is the gap or delta, and this gap is where our work begins.

The real work of building a successful business and life is found in closing the gap. If you're confused by what to do this year, you need to discover the gap because the gap brings clarity. The gap may be huge and substantial but here's the good news...anything you do to close the gap brings you closer to success.

Let's get started!

This is Day Three of "Your Best Year Ever". A seven day podcast series on Onward Creatives.

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Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast for the creative dreamers and doers. Whether you're just getting started on your creative journey or your well on your way this is the place for you.

Each week I help you discover your identity and develop a life and career in alignment with who you are. The journey onward starts here.

Join us for Monday Night Live on FB and IG Live 8:30 pm EST.

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Most of our resolutions and goals fail for one big reason....they are "what's" and "what's" don't inspire us. Our goals of dropping 20 lbs., starting a new business, launching a new social media platform or adding followers are all "what's"

Simon Sinek says "There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you and inspire it." The way to inspire your own behavior is to discover the why behind the what.

What's don't get you out of bed in the morning and they don't keep you awake at night. They don't keep you focused and determined.... they're short lived and mechanical. A why, it motivates you to later behavior, make sacrifices and put in the hard work required to find true success.

If you want to live your best year ever, start with why!

This is Day Two of "Your Best Year Ever". A seven day podcast series on Onward Creatives.

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Click on this link, give us your email and download the plan. This episode of the podcast walks you through exactly what you need to know for each part of the plan. If you take the time to work this through you will build a strong foundation for your creative business.

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Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast for the creative dreamers and doers. Whether you're just getting started on your creative journey or your well on your way this is the place for you.

Each week I help you discover your identity and develop a life and career in alignment with who you are. The journey onward starts here.

Join us for Monday Night Live on FB and IG Live 8:30 pm EST.

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It's 2019, let's build your best year ever! Sometimes the path forward requires a brief look backwards. Before we can stretch out into 2019 goals we need to take a moment and learn from 2018.

Let's look at three aspects of 2018:

Successes: What did we do in business and life that worked well? Why?

Failures: What did we try in business and life that didn't work out? Why?

Nothings: What didn't we try? Why didn't we try?

You can't be better by being the same, so let's learn from the past so we can being to build the foundation for our best year ever!

This is Day One in our 7 Day Series "Building the Best Year Ever."

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Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast for the creative dreamers and doers. Whether you're just getting started on your creative journey or your well on your way this is the place for you.

Each week I help you discover your identity and develop a life and career in alignment with who you are. The journey onward starts here.

Join us for Monday Night Live on FB and IG Live 8:30 pm EST.

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How do you develop social authority in your niche?

1. Know your audience

2. Choose the right channels

3. Know the terminology and major players

4. Be consistent

5. Use real life, current examples

6. Find and speak with your voice

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Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast for the creative dreamers and doers. Whether you're just getting started on your creative journey or your well on your way this is the place for you.

Each week I help you discover your identity and develop a life and career in alignment with who you are. The journey onward starts here.

Join us for Monday Night Live on FB and IG Live 8:30 pm EST.

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Content creation is like flossing. We all know that we should do it, but most of us don't.

Half of business is persuading people that you have a solution to their problem. (the other half is actually solving their problem). You can either run around with a Keynote deck to meetings all day long or you can create content that works for you even you're at the ballpark or coffee shop.

If you're job hunting....create content. I can assure you most of your other hunters are not. Get to the heart of what your ideal role is and create content daily around that subject. This is a great way to sell yourself as the solution to a company's problems.

If you offer a service to others to purchase....create content. Everyone has a website....so how do you stand out? You add value. If a company reads your article or listens to your podcast consistently they're less likely to venture somewhere else for a solution.

If you're a leader at a company....create content. People respond differently to your ideas being presented in their space instead of a formal Keynote deck. Not only does it help you sell your ideas it also elevate your position as a thought leader.

Ready for weekly inspiration? Join our email list to receive a curated article each Friday. Click on this link, to sign up.

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Click on this link, give us your email and download the plan. This episode of the podcast walks you through exactly what you need to know for each part of the plan. If you take the time to work this through you will build a strong foundation for your creative business.

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Welcome to the Onward Creatives podcast. A weekly podcast for the creative dreamers and doers. Whether you're just getting started on your creative journey or your well on your way this is the place for you.

Each week I help you discover your identity and develop a life and career in alignment with who you are. The journey onward starts here.

Join us for Monday Night Live on FB and IG Live 8:30 pm EST.

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