How do you know what's the right side hustle for you?

I'll tell you a story first. When I was starting out SEO Hacker, I was writing for a blog. I had a problem. No one is reading my stuff. The solution is to search. How do other people do it?

So I followed some other bloggers. They all said to do SEO. So I studied it and applied it. It was the solution. And there was value there because I found value there. There's no way that other companies will not find online relevant passive traffic because they are already searching. There is no way that they will not find it valuable.

How did I know that SEO was the right side hustle for me? And the answer is honestly, I didn't know. It's a series of divine appointments and interventions. So at the end of the day, for me, life is not just about knowing things and doing things. Life is also about faith and having faith in the right person, which is Jesus Christ. That for me, is it.

So there's no direct answer to your question because God gave you a set of skills, a set of desires, passions, as we call it. And the intersection of these in my opinion, that's the best side hustle you can do. But it's hard to know what those are.

So, for example, for me, early on I knew I loved to write stories and stories and stories. I just write and I know I love to do that. And SEO has a lot to do about writing. But it's not just about writing. It's also about programming, knowing psychodynamics behind people, what keywords they might use to search for your product or service, knowing how to partner up with other webmasters, get links from their websites, and earn links from other websites.

So it's a combination of different skill sets. That's what makes SEO so hard as a practice. There's that dilemma. There's still a skill set gap in a lot of places for sure, especially with the high level skill set like SEO. And that is something that I knew I wanted to do because of the intersection of my passion, which is writing and what I knew how to do, which is programming and IT. At the end of the day, I feel like I've also been given some balance there by God.

Couple that with my desire for writing and skill set for writing and communication, that for me I think is how you really grow, what has been given to you by God. So at the end of the day, you pray about it, you try to figure it out - the intersection of your God given talents and your God given desires. And then once you find that out, you work super hard to be able to develop that.

And then once you're successful as a freelancer there and you start to get more clients, then you will start to hire people. Then you develop your leadership and management skills, because there is no way on your entrepreneurship journey that you're not going to improve your leadership and management. You are always going to have to improve it. But leading a team and teaching them and managing them is a whole different ball game. You need to learn that.

And so a lot of the time it's really going to be hard life experiences that will teach you about leadership. I've gone through some of them, and this is my effort and my team's effort in helping you to learn some things, learn some values from whatever it is that I've gone through as an entrepreneur.

All right, guys, hopefully that adds value to you. And if it did, please do help us out by hitting the like button, the bell notification icon and the subscribe button. Again, this is your host, Sean Si, and I will see you in the next episode.

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