How to Work on Personal Projects After Working A Full Time Job

Sharif wants to work on his personal portfolio but works a full time job and loses focus and confidence. How can he #stay #motivated despite working a full time job? He'd rather spend his free time playing video games, watching movies and relaxing, so how can he find the energy to work on his side #hustle?

00:20 Diagnose the real problem. Do you really want it? Audit your time.
2:25 Get brainwashed by Mr. Chris Do. Learn to find joy in progress for yourself.
3:20 Don't judge yourself as to whether what you'll make will be good or not. If you learn to love the PROCESS, that's the point. It's who you become in pursuit of the goal, not the goal itself.
03:25 Enjoy the process vs. the end result. It's important to have big goals, but it's more important the person you become in the pursuit of that goal.
4:08 Combine your free time with things you actually like, blur that line. Ex: Work = Shooting film. Hobby = Traveling. Vlog to blur that line.
04:10 Combine your hobbies and interests to blur the lines of what is hobby and work.
05:10 In order to get what you want, you have to be willing to give up something. In other
words, to get what you don't have, you will have to do something you've not done.
5:52 Life is long and the amount of time you have to achieve something is short. If you work hard now, you'll reap the rewards for the rest of your life. If you spread out of the work, you'll realize years later you aren't far from where you started. You'll regret that you didn't give yourself the best shot.
06:15 My dad's advice. Life is long. The time to achieve what you want is short. Concentrate now (give up the short term rewards) for the long term gain.
9:57 Growing up is about sacrifice. You'll either do it now or later, but you'll have to.
10:00 The sacrifices I made (things I enjoyed) for the things I wanted (my career).
11:45 Does your job feel like its sucking your soul? If so, perhaps you need to find another job?
11:52 Pursue a career that's rewarding emotionally and financially.
14:00 Just getting started is the hard part. Do a little bit will eventually get you into the swing.
15:07 Make small commitments in a process. Embrace the difficult, embrace the grind.
17:52 Find motivation by a higher purpose. This will propel you to strive to improve even in your downtime activities.
18:50 Wealth is your ability to convert knowledge and experience into equity and capital. - Jim Rohn

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[TheGrrson]

"If you're not motivated, I can't help you."

Cold hard truth.

[jackcrouse]

While I enjoy this channel, I would recommend that people take the advices given in this video with a grain of salt, especially if you are very young. Yes you should procrastinate less, yes you should work more and focus on getting better but you shouldn't ignore your social life and you should watch the good TV shows and movies. You need time to disconnect and you need time to see other things.
That's how you sometimes get inspiration or ideas for your next project or on how to advance as a person.
Just pushing yourself to work 24/7 is most likely a recipe for a pretty severe burnout, not matter how much you love what you are doing.

Try to find a balance in your life and in the things that you do.

[rrroumn]

This is so true! What works for me: I always have more personal projects opened – 1. Behance case studies, 2. Portfolio web redesign, 3. Generative art pieces, 4. Learning 3D… And then when I feel the urge to procrastinate, instead of going on Netflix, I just procrastinate on one of the other projects :)

[brunopereira-ccfg]

Jesus, it's amazing how this channel has an answer for almost EVERY QUESTION.

[SammyFunShow]

Here's my personal story about finding the time and energy to push something of meaning forward - I'm a full time graphic designer - 9 to 5, home around 5:30 every day. I play with my young kids until they go to bed at 8:30. Then from 8:30 to at least 1:30 I grind hard on YouTube - editing, answering emails and comments etc. I've been doing this for over 3 years, every day non stop. As I keep pushing it I get better at both jobs and they both get easier which makes it possible to push harder. It used to take me a whole week to edit one lousy video. Now I can produce and edit 3 in a week that I'm proud of. YouTube (for me) has has less than ideal monetary ROI, but it's allowing me to interact with my kids in a way that bridges both what I love to do for a living, and with the two people who I love the most in the world. motivation is easy with the right carot in front of you.

[mrknarf]

Motivation comes and goes: you don't need motivation, you need a habit. Start small, five minutes of working every day, slowly expand that. You don't have to convince yourself to do that, it's just something you do, every single day. And yes, stop caring about results: trust better results will come if you put in more effort. It's an act of faith, but a needed one.

[Eikon_FF]

This is the talk I need as a young adult. With all these distraction and all, growing up enjoy learning at the same time playing video games. I found myself doing time management and sticking to it does really works. Enjoying the process is what makes it as well. I know my time may not be yet but everyday I learn and try to engage on challenging myself and motivate by following you Chris and your team, gives me courage and hope to fulfill my dreams of becoming a web developer/designer and learn further in the field. Thanks for bringing this up and to you Chris on how you approach this kind of situation I'm having as well with other young adults.

[DivyanshBatham]

Aaron's words hit me real hard, I'm super pumped right now. Will start working on my small side project, which I have been delaying for the last couple of weeks.

PS - I started watching this video while having dinner, and after dinner my plan was to play Fortnite but not anymore. It's a wastage of time.

[cjmixer]

I fully agree with Chris' comment about working an unfulfilling job. I spent a few years dedicating time AFTER my full time job in order to obtain more fulfilling work. There's no better motivator than being miserable at your current job... I've noticed that due to being very happy and fulfilled at my current job, my personal projects have subsided. The projects haven't STOPPED, but I don't feel the pressure anymore because I'm already doing the fulfilling work during the day. I've reached my goal. Now I have more time to spend with people I love and be more active in outdoor activities.

[unluckycloverfield]

been working full time and trying to side hustle for 8 years and its making me realy tired. I ended up cutting out a lot of my social life hoping it will pay off soon. im really numb now. i still sit down and go through the motions of the second shift but its harder now... i sit there and less comes out. i dont know what to do. the motivation is there, i still look forward to working on stuff when i get home but im physically very tired. and sad a lot of the time. i cant picture the future very well adn its hard to plan more then a week or so ahead. ive sought help in the form of a mentorship program and extra classes. its slow going but knowing that someone will notice if i dissappear helps me continue.

[prsona]

Holy shit this is me right now. But weird enough, working at a full time job gave me much more motivation to do what I love after work compared to when I had all the time in the world and would barely draw. I started to read more books during transit about organzing my life, goals, motivation, even learning japanese with duolingo. I started using Notion to organize everything in my life. Slowly but surely I can feel progress happennig and it feels great!

[AhmedMosaad]

Really needed this! thanks for bringing it up Sharif.

[hqef]

I also have your voice inside my head. If not your voice at least part of your spirit, and I'm on fire baby. Everyday I do extra work after school. I just finished a whole project the other day the very same day I got the assignment.
I see you and I raise you Chris Do!

[DiamondOkoh]

I believe listening to this, the key thing to note is “life is short” and “know your priorities”.
You do need to be willing to give up some of the things you like but man, I really do prioritize my health and my family. Success and money or impact is only an aspect of life. I never want to wake up at 80 and be divorced, have no relationship with my kids and yet, I am living in a mansion. That isn’t something I am giving up or willing to. But, I am willing to give up hours laying in bed scrolling instagram, hours watching Netflix, I can watch shows but, I need to prioritize and balance that properly. I will watch my movies, I just will prioritize my goals first. Get that done, I have done the whole never watch TV thing and hustle for hours, I burnt out heavily 4 times in one year, I am never doing that again. Literally, never. I believe it’s all about priorities for me. Would have loved to see a woman be part of the conversation.

[nephyx]

over the course of working from home — I've realized that unwinding can have a timer on it. Sometimes we can fall into the trap of our "unwinding time" stretching out long to the point where 4-5 hours have gone by and it's time to head to bed. When i started implementing a set amount of time for winding down after work (1-2 hours) it helped me really prioritize what that looks like and how to make it as quality as possible and not from a place of mindless activity. Once I was able to that, it opened my mind to what I can do that is in line with my personal projects after the set amount of time with unwinding.

[alexanderzin]

Best thing about your videos is realizing that I'm not alone having these problems

[fizzaiftikhar]

Wow it feels like i needed this.. Thank you so much!

[gaia]

Every time I get a little complacent with learning new skills be it photoshop, after effects or new design principles, I just go onto the futurs youtube, look up a video like this and it just helps remind me I didn't wake up to be mediocre.

Thanks again, guys!

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