These 6 Solopreneur Habits Will Save You 23+ Hours Per Week (And Make You $10,000)

Stop killing your business progress.

You’re 6 months into the year and have achieved 0 of your goals.

Why?

You’re distracted.

You’re ignoring the fundamentals.

You’re doing everything but what moves you forward.

Remember:

The magic you’re looking for is in the work you’re ignoring.

Stop the brain drain.

Understand this instead:

We all have the same daily variables.

Everyone has:

• 365 days.

• 8,760 hours.

• 525,600 minutes.

This is a fixed variable.

There’s no changing how much annual time you have.

But yet, in that time:

Some people achieve a lot.

And so many people achieve nothing.

What causes such a big difference in outcome?

The simple answer?

Habits.

(surprise, surprise)

What you repeatedly do every day is what you become.

Everyone has the same goals.

We all want to be fit.

We all want to make a lot of money.

We all want to have meaningful relationships.

The only thing that separates winners from losers is their systems.

• What’s their daily exercise and nutrition habits?

• What’s their daily learning and working habits?

• What’s their daily investment to build trust habits?

Goals are necessary to set a direction.

But goals are insufficient to make progress.

Once you set the goal, start building the system.

Systems beat goals when goals don’t have systems.

Stop wasting your time and implement these 5 systems:

#1: Build the capacity to be great before being great

You’re not lucky because you’re not prepared enough.

Preparation = building capacity.

This isn’t about mental masturbation or endless learning.

Building capacity still requires taking real action.

Capacity broadens the scope of opportunity, not reduces it.

Invest time BEFORE opportunities come to you:

• Build an audience before building a product.

• Start the business before you quit your 9–5 job.

• Start saving money before you decide to invest money.

Opportunities are everywhere.

But opportunities can only be exploited when you have the capacity to do so.

The formula for luck:

Luck = opportunity + preparation.

In my upcoming book, I talk about how Tom Noske:

• Self-taught himself digital art and photography.

• Built an 80,000-follower Instagram page.

• Invested in coaching and community.

He did this before he had an idea about selling products or services.

But he made himself ready.

When the NFT boom hit in 2022, guess who was best placed to exploit that opportunity? Tom. He cashed in his capacity and made over six figures during the boom. That’s how you can make your next $10k simply by building capacity.

If you can build capacity, you’ll be positioned to take advantage of opportunities.

You don’t need to be great to start building capacity.

But you need to start building capacity in order to be great.

Don’t get caught short when Lady Luck starts calling your name.

#2: Marry the game, not the outcome.

I’ll never retire.

The concept of retirement is not in my vocabulary.

Retirement was invented by humans during a time of widespread youth unemployment and to quell a political uprising. In 1889, the German government imposed artificial limits on the working age to help young people find jobs.

But working for money is not the end goal.

I’ve already achieved things that I said would make me happy.

• I’ve won 5 awards.

• I’ve signed a traditional book deal.

• I’ve started, scaled, and sold a business.

• I became an Executive twice before my 30s.

• I’ve accumulated a 100,000+ global audience.

• I’ve built a new house in the most liveable city in the world.

Each of these goals held the promise of everlasting happiness.

But now at 31, I’m no longer holding my happiness hostage to the promise of a long-term goal.

I’m finding happiness in the journey.

It’s not the pursuit of happiness.

It’s finding happiness in the pursuit.

If you can think long-term and find happiness in the journey, you’ll avoid all the natural traps that solopreneurs who want fast success fall into:

• Optimizing for revenue at the expense of reputation.

• Building a mediocre product to sell to an audience.

• Chasing the latest trends and business models.

When you over-optimize for the outcome, you start to take shortcuts.

You do things that work but are unaligned with your values.

This might work in the short term, but will fail in the long-term.

You can’t control what happens in business.

But you can control how you respond to it.

#3: Be easy to be around

People buy the person before the product.

There are people who are far more talented than I am. More experience in sales and marketing, broader skillset, deeper knowledge, and results.

But they are difficult to work with.

People just don’t like them or enjoy working with them.

• They don’t follow up.

• They don’t do what they say.

• They don’t communicate their intentions.

The crazy part?

This is all free to do.

These are all behavioral traits and basic emotional intelligence.

But you’d be surprised by how many people lack these skills.

In a world of AI, soft skills like:

• Effective communication.

• Emotional intelligence.

• Storytelling

Are becoming so much more valuable as they become rarer.

AI can create any product you want with a single prompt.

Talent matters less than emotional maturity.

No matter how good you are, people won’t work with you if you’re rude, passive-aggressive, or emotionally unintelligent.

I’ve worked with a high-ticket client for over 7 years.

The main reason they continue to work with me is how easy and enjoyable it is to work with me. I constantly follow up. I over communicate my actions. I take the initiative to find ways to build and add value to their business.

People don’t always remember what you do

But they will remember how you made them feel.

There’s no cost to learning these skills.

But not learning them will cost you a lot.

Learn to be emotionally intelligent or die trying.

#4: The great skill you can learn.

We never question sadness.

When someone is feeling “low,” we let them feel low.

But when someone is happy, we always ask them: Why?

But I think this is a counterintuitive approach.

We should interrogate sadness, not happiness.

Why?

Because:

If you can be sad for no reason, you can also be happy for no reason.

Most people are slaves to their emotions.

They let it dictate their lives and quietly destroy their progress.

• They roll out of bed anxious, so they doom scroll.

• They start to feel bored, so they pivot their business.

• They feel tired, so they decide not to hit the gym.

Every time you break a promise to yourself, you reduce your integrity.

The voice that tells you not to do something becomes louder.

But that’s not you. You are now the CEO of your emotions.

#5: Invest in paying your ignorance tax.

He spent $10k to attend a gym owner’s mastermind.

The only problem?

He didn’t even have a gym yet.

His logic was that he could skip decades of experience and mistakes just by being in this room. Most of the other people had owned a gym for more than 10+ years.

After the single-day mastermind, he now knew:

• Where to source cheap second hand equipment.

• How much he should pay for each square metre in rent.

• How to find the best gym locations.

• How to structure gym memberships, launches, and retention.

All this before opening his gym.

He started day 1 of his gym with decades of learning.

In 24 hours, he calculated that he had saved at least $ 50,000, not to mention the years of mistakes, anxiety, and ignorance he had now avoided.

The best solopreneurs don’t care about asking for help.

They only care about winning.

They will do anything and everything to win.

They will humble themselves and learn from someone who knows more.

The least successful solopreneurs are too arrogant and narcissistic to ever ask for help. They stay stuck for years in an endless cycle of mistakes instead of hiring coaches, joining communities, or investing in courses.

Pay your ignorance tax.

Or it’ll become the most expensive bill you will ever incur.

The price of ignorance is higher than the cost of solving it.

#6: I’m a recovering people-pleaser.

But now, whenever anyone asks for my time, my mantra is:

“Always say no first, then you can say yes later if you want to.”

But the important part: never lie.

I’ll tell people who ask for my time that I have other priorities.

People are always accommodating and welcoming if something changes.

But saying yes first, and then canceling at the last minute, leaves a bad taste in your mouth. It’s hard to reverse that feeling, and you’ll almost always create some emotional debt.

Growth happens through subtraction, not addition.

You need to be short-term selfish to be long-term selfless.

You can’t help people if you’re constantly stretched thin.

Overcommitment is the death of progress.

Change doesn’t scream or shout.

These habits won’t change your life overnight.

But over time, they compound.

They change your trajectory to be positive.

With a positive trajectory, time becomes your friend.

With a negative trajectory, time becomes your enemy.

Meaningful change doesn’t happen overnight, but over time.

Start today, and you’ll drastically alter who you are in 5 years.

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