How my side hustle went from zero to six figures in a month.

A number of years ago I was practicing law on my own and my clients were driving me crazy. I knew that if I was going to maintain my sanity and remain a happy person, I was going to have to change career directions. At first I thought I could maybe change practice areas in the legal profession to maintain my sanity (I was wrong about that), but that meant I’d need some side hustle income to bridge the gap during the transition.

So I started thinking about how I might go about developing an extra revenue stream or two. To my surprise, I was earning more than I had practicing law within two and a half weeks, and was on track to earn a six figure annual income by the end of that first month. These are the principles that I applied to get there so quickly.

1. Use the kitchen sink approach.

I’ve found that people who are thinking about developing a side hustle frequently fall into one of two camps. The first camp is made up of the people who believe they know exactly what their customers want and that they’ve got exactly the product or service to fix their clients’ problems. The second camp is made up of people at the other extreme: they don’t know what value they could possibly add or what problem they could possibly solve.