“I only work 3.5 days a week”

With my early side struggles, I tried to get rental properties, then I started placing ads in the back seat of Ubers and renting my Polaris Slingshot three-wheeled motorcycle on Turo, an online car-sharing platform.

But none of these works were successful. It wasn’t until I started selling products on Amazon, using Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) that I started making real passive income.

All I had to do was find a generic product that was in demand and ship it to Amazon. My first product was $1000 headphones, then I moved on to iPhone cases and sports equipment.

I made over $25,000 in 2019 with my Amazon store. I wanted to share with others what I learned from my experiences and my mistakes, so I started a new project, which would later turn into my biggest income: starting my own YouTube channel.

I was able to quit my full-time job when I was making less than $4,000 a month because I had paid off all of my debts, except for my house and car.

There are many methods you can use to pay off debt, but I personally like the “Debt Snowball” method because it helps you see your progress.

Here’s how it works:

1. List all of your debts from smallest to largest.
2. Make the largest payment on the smallest debt you have and the lowest amount for the rest.
3. Repeat until you’ve paid off the smaller debt, then continue with your next smaller debt.

When I was working my full-time job, I lacked the motivation to work on my side.

But once I put my pen to paper and stuck to a schedule, working on my work was part of my weekly routine. I choose to focus on my side hustle every weekday evening after work and every Saturday morning.

I still stick to a weekly schedule. I work from Monday to Wednesday and half on Friday. Every day I will work four to six hours, with each hour blocked out for a specific task.

If you don’t set aside specific times to work on your side hustle, your work may get lost in everyday priorities.

I invest in business models that require the least amount of my time. It’s the only way I can work 22 hours a week and still be able to grow multiple income streams. But remember that automating things and creating the most efficient systems can take some time at first.

Every month, I think about where I’ve spent most of my working hours and find ways to make these processes more efficient. For example, I used to spend four to eight hours a week editing videos.

I decided to outsource my video editing, but that also required some time up front to run the numbers to see what fits my budget, and find a great editor to do the work. But now that I make time to do it, I spend those hours growing my business in other ways, or working less.