Way to many people out there think that you have to quit your day job to start your new career online, I find that crazy and it just comes down to cutting out wasted time! It all comes down to Hustle 2.0
You can have both….Jobs.
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August 21st, 2008 at 11:07 am
Hey Gary I hear you. I’m working on a practice blog about my dogs to learn what blogging is like and all about with the plan to create a blog with the plan to create and launch a blog that more people would be interested in reading about all sorts of topics. You’re words of wisdom are always much appreciated.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:08 am
Wow GV - this one really hit home. I have been hustling a full time job and my own design agency for over 4 years. It is VERY tough, but worth every second. I want my agency to be successful so I dedicate 7-2am Sun through Wed. Its all about a consistent schedule.
Your right, you need to give up the TV/games/ect in order for it to really work. Now all my extra time goes to my girlfriend and I watch DRV TV once a week. Nice one.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:08 am
Right on, Gary! The “brass ring” is always there. Also one has to keep in mind that because someone else attains success does not mean there is “less” for you. The world is bountiful and limitless. Prioritize, be diligent and be responsible for your actions and you’ll reap the benefits!
August 21st, 2008 at 11:18 am
So true Gary. So true.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:22 am
Great great advice man. Simple thing in thought but just gotta put that effort in!
August 21st, 2008 at 11:23 am
It’s hard not to agree with you and your 120 (187?) is very inspiring. I have to take you to a very minor task–this 2.0 lingo has to be lost!
I’m about to become a stay-at-home Dad (my wife is heading back to work full-time and I’ll be with our 6-month old), work my self-employed day job and still I want to find time for my own stuff. Hopefully hustle doesn’t become an understatement!
Thanks as always, Gary.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:40 am
This is sooo true. Some folks came to my office yesterday telling me about a video series they wanted to do sometime “next year.” I showed them directions to the BestBuy down the street, told them to buy a Flip and post their first video today.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:43 am
Gary, you’re absolutely right. It’s all about the hustle. I will be working two jobs this fall (teaching college English four days a week and working a full-time job as an office manager at a non-profit), but you can be damn sure I’m still going to be doing everything I can do keep making progress on my novel and on my Website.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Gary,
Unrelated, but wanted to make sure you saw this article about a wine investment fund: http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2008/08/20/in-vino-veritas-former-ubs-banker-starts-wine-fund/
just thought you’d be interested given your recent wine investing talk with old jimmy cramer. I’m a stock market guy, but wine’s one of my hobbies.
keep up the good work man
August 21st, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Thanks for the free inspiration. I’m in the process of working my 9-5 and my website. With the lovely new england winter approaching I’ll have even more reason to stay huddled up in front of my laptop coding away
August 21st, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Hear hear, Gary!
August 21st, 2008 at 1:37 pm
True and a half. I’m pretty much 3-jobbing it between trying to start a newspaper analysis Web site, working 30 hours (including 11 hours at a newspaper), and taking 15 hours of classes.
It’s all about busting your tail and keeping with it for years.
Keep the advice rolling.
August 21st, 2008 at 2:10 pm
We all like to talk about balance and reaching our goals. In the middle, though is HARD WORK. Good reminder that we cannot skip good’ol elbow grease. Wax on, wax off…
August 21st, 2008 at 2:25 pm
You are 110% right Gary! I work 16-20 hours a day a week no matter what. The downside… my gf hates me… the upside… i have my own condo with a city view at 23 years old.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Gary,
You’re a huge inspiration. This video was exactly what I needed to build back all the steam I was loosing on my various projects. I look forward to more of your videos.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:34 pm
This has always been my biggest hurdle. By the time I get home at the end of the day or week, it’s tough to convince myself to do anything other than spend my free time relaxing and recuperating. Then, of course, I get pissed off with myself when I don’t accomplish anything.
When I’m able to break out of that mindset, it’s magical, and I impress the hell out of myself. I just need to figure out how to be more consistent about it.
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August 21st, 2008 at 5:10 pm
f*ck#ng awesome. but do i have to give up watching wine library TV as well???
August 21st, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Gary, I love these videos man. Please make a habit of doing a few per week. Thanks boss
August 21st, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Inspiring and true Gary.
August 21st, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Great inspiration Gary. It’ll keep me going at 10:30 tonight!
August 21st, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Grammar alert! Replace the first “to” with “too”, and either don’t approve this comment or delete it.
August 21st, 2008 at 7:42 pm
I loved your message this morning, Gary, and this video is great! I think I’ll just keep “Hustle 2.0″ in my head as a mantra. It’s short and sweet - and gets right to the point!
August 21st, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Gary is Russian…..Gary doesn’t blog because he can’t write a sh***. He said it NME!
Well the grammar part is over. Though i never know when to replace the to with too.
This is very inspiring Gary. I try and do this while i study and work in a an internship with the goal of moving to the US and finding a Job while i build my brand there. It’s gonna work because I’m gonna work!
August 21st, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Truer words have not been spoken. It’s all hustle. Get to work and get off the couch. No more video games, no more marathon of Mad Men.
People ask how I do it all. I bust my arse. I work, a lot. If you want it, you have to do it.
August 21st, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Word!
August 21st, 2008 at 9:30 pm
“There is no birth without pain.”
Great points.
Sacrifice appears to be a lost art.
Coming from an immigrant background, I have to say that American and its media does an excellent job. Creative adds and spins create a powerful consumer market.
At the end, its about feeding your own baby (business).
August 21st, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Very True. Look forward to more update on this personal blog.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:42 pm
gary vee, u da man baby….hard work to transition
w/a wife, 2 kids…it’s even harder, but it’s on…i’m on track to resign this march
been at the internets game for a good 4 years…tired as a mofo, but, mental toughness and motivation to give my family more than the best keeps me killin it
ever since i spoke w/gary vee my biz has been rockin’ at warp speed!
kill it!
–z–
August 21st, 2008 at 10:44 pm
I just got a day job workin 40 hours / week at a bank. Then, on the weekends, I work with my cast on Hak5. We all have day jobs, and still work on the show every night. We all need that income from our day jobs to keep us comfy, yet we still commit a TON of time to Hak5, because we love it so much. Sure, someday I’d like to follow my dream of being on stage, on camera, etc, and be able to work on Hak5 or whatever show fulltime… but right now, I’m enjoying the social real life world along with the podcasting world.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:11 pm
I work 40-45 hours at my day job then work 4-6 hrs./night in print / web graphic design work. My side business has been a long slog for the past 13 years. But it has helped to pay my wife’s college tuition plus help save for the future.
It’s damn hard with kids/their activities, time for my wife and extended family. But no one’s going to give you the money.
Gary’s right, you do have to live on 4-5 hours of sleep, but don’t expect others that aren’t into it to understand. You have to have the drive. Case in point, I have to travel all night Friday after 8 hours of the day gig to work all weekend on my freelance graphics work.
My goal is to work for myself and myself alone (and of course to have Aaron Rodgers beat Brett Favre in the Super Bowl). The prize is in sight, but some days I have to keep praying and reminding myself that it’s all an investment…
August 22nd, 2008 at 1:12 am
Good post, Gary. Everyday is another chance to be the best at whatever you want. But only you have the will to get it done. Thanks for this great PSA, haha.
August 22nd, 2008 at 1:23 am
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August 22nd, 2008 at 1:26 am
Gary - great message. Love the “hustle 2.0″ - if you aren’t careful that’s going to turn into the next internet meme! Very important message for everyone who says “I can’t do it, I’m too busy, etc…”
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:09 am
Awesome Gary, very motivational!
August 22nd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Thanks Gary for the inspiration. I’ve recently quit my full time job since I’ve saved enough money to focus on “Hustle 2.0.” Why? I have nothing to lose…No mortgage, no girlfriend, no wife, no kids, and I’m still in my 20s. I figured it was perfect for me to take a calculated risk now than later. Moreover, I’m doing what you’ve been advocating all along; that is to follow my passion. Thanks again, Gary!
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Gary, this is right on, and hits in the perfect spot as I am in the mad dash to finish my book (about going from corporate to entrepreneur, imagine that!)
Even though I was self-employed for 10 years before starting on my entrepreneur coaching focus, it took so much work to build my brand through blogging, podcasting, connecting with folks, doing press, etc. I had 2 babies in the 3 years since starting this work, and often the 9pm-1am became 9pm-3am.
It is worth every bit of effort!
So when people say building an online presence is easy, I just chuckle.
-Pam
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Gary, hustle is the name of the game. It’s too easy to know it when someone’s going all out for something and has the passion and skills to excel in it.
*Those* type of people I want to know more of!
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:17 am
Awesome stuff, and very true!
And there’s another thing I want to add…
* You can also wake up early. Several years ago I started waking up at 4:15am to get some stuff done in the early morning hours, and this has made a huge difference. The early morning hours can be quite productive, especially when nobody else in the house is awake yet. When you’re doing work online, time and location don’t matter much. It can be 4:30am at a coffee shop, and you’re still getting stuff done.
I suppose what I’m saying is this: Consider going after that proverbial worm!
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Hi Gary,
Hope the trip to India was not too taxing. Our discussion is beginning to set in after the inital explosion of thought. Look forward to more conversation.
k-h
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August 24th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
work, can’t hear that enough. keep puttin out your stuff, we’ll keep listening
August 26th, 2008 at 7:18 am
Couldn’t agree more Gary. I work a full time job (which ends up being more like a full time and a half) + contracts from home and starting a new full time job soon that will require me to put some hours at my old job while still doing all three.
I recently posted this on my gf’s blog : If you can imagine it you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
- Ward, William Arthur.
She’s been bustin her behind on her own business full time for a few years now. She’s got her dream job and slowly building up so she can have a life as well.
Gotta keep on bustin your but till you get what you want. Never let go. The longer you work at it the closer you get.
August 26th, 2008 at 9:03 am
amen.
where have I been?
how have I just found you?
(were you lost? :))
August 26th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Gary- This is the truth, I have a full time gig and I run ActionsTalk on the side. If you’re not doing it all, you’re not doing enough!
Great thought.
http://actionstalk.com
August 26th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Hi Gary, I caught your keynote at NME. Good stuff. The passion is inspiring.
I have a technical questions for you or other posters on the forum. How do the bar codes on wine work? Is there a central database that captures all the bar code information for wine to which a distributor like Wine Library would subscribe? How does the metadata – name of wine, vintage, etc - get tracked within a distributors system?
Gracias amigo.
August 26th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Great post - there is no way around the fact that building your own business will be a lot of work. Even when you quit your day job you will probably end up putting a lot of hours in to your own company.
Just to add one thing to the conversation : don’t be afraid to go to your boss and re-negotiate your work hours if you think you have enough leverage. I dropped my hours to 50% when I started my new business. The extra time supercharges me + maintains enough cash-flow.
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August 27th, 2008 at 9:17 am
I love this post!!! To be honest I almost didn’t purchase our good friend Tim Ferriss’ book because of the title LOL. I’m glad I did though!
I’m a firm believer that hard work and competition can bring out the best in people.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Good Clip Gary,
Plus the harder you work at something the sweeter it will be when you achieve it !
August 27th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Thnx so much for the comments everyone!
August 28th, 2008 at 11:38 am
This is just great - it has completely opened my eyes to a whole new world of opportunity. I’ve just started to set up my first Blog and am about to press the delete button on my old static dull useless website that never did anything for me. It’s now time to get interactive…but I ahve to say I’m finding it hard to decide on which blog tool to use and how to get things going? Any recommendations? I’m currently trying Wordpress…
August 28th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Yes - you can have both. AS we talked in my car - I’m not real keen on my day job, but once 5PM comes around, I LOVE what I do!! And it’s the 9-5 that allows me to do what I love - which is 1) hanging and doing fun stuff with the family, and 2) being part of the Cleveland Wine Scene - i.e. events and education.
My objective? make my 9-5 the Cleveland Wine Scene!
August 28th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
damn, looks like most of us work full time AND do the internets gig
we all know this is brutal….
i heard an interview w/gary that hit me hard and set me off, and is what pushed me to say f**** this and time to go full time
he said how immigrants come to this country and win, b/c it’s their mindset of not allowing failure to happen, they have no choice but success, and they come here w/no language and no money - just like his father!
just like my father
i’m resigning this year, who the hell is coming with me!!
–z–
August 29th, 2008 at 1:07 am
This makes sense, enlightened hard work and sacrifice pays off. I still want to talk to you about your next book. I think it will be the definitive wine book and help a lot of people. I’m more about community then commerce,but I understand that both are important. I will try to track you down when you get to Los Angeles.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:12 pm
hey gary great blog mate
September 1st, 2008 at 10:14 pm
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September 2nd, 2008 at 10:39 am
I love your message that building your own business takes WORK. There are too many business gurus out there today preaching that if you work ’smart’ then you don’t have to work hard or a lot. Yes, working ’smart’ is necessary but that doesn’t mean working hard and for long hours (at least at first) isn’t necessary.
Thank you for the honest message spoken from experience.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:50 am
perfect pop of inspiration coming of a labor day spent working hard with co-workers that are also my co-founders. I heart the 9-12 shift, there is something about slipping back in bed late night, dog tired but pumped that you knockout some solid work for yourself, then rolling into work the next morning and being totally oblivious to what ever TV show folks are talking about.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:53 am
If you aren’t as passionate about your online empire as you are about your television shows, movies, or video games… you shouldn’t go full time. You should find something that you love so much you’d rather do it than watch TV.
zach - My dad came to the US on a student visa and a one way ticket from Taiwan, because he could only afford a one way ticket. When asked what would happen if things didn’t work out, he asked “why wouldn’t it work out?” It’s a modern day story of Cortez burning his ships. It sounds like a lot of our fathers did that, kudos to you!
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:56 am
Gary.
Insightful and Inspiring. I’m doing the hustle 2.0, and if tired and pathetic little me can do it anyone can do it, you are completely on the money when you say pick your destination, choose your path, and go gang busters until you’re there. As tired as I get I always feel an extra surge of energy after a GV.com post. Thanks.
I’m hanging out at the day job, the best job I will ever have in a fantastic industry. Working as the Director of Technology for a rural school district. It is a dream job by every measure. But it is a path I was pushed into and not the one I want to stay on. I’m a single dad raising two small boys alone. As flexible as the job is I want more time with my boys, I want to work on things that are important but less urgent, and did I mention more time with the boys?
I’ve been able to shift the classic 9 to 5 to an 8 to 4 by leaving for work the moment the kids are on the bus.
We’re all home by 5, do a little dinner, a bit of hang time just us guys, story time (yeah they are that small) from 8 till 8:30/8:45, clean the house (part of the solo gig), and I don’t get to START until 9:00 or 9:30 at night.
I “try” for 11:30 each night but usually fail miserably with 12:30 or 1am being more common than I’d like to admit. And I start the whole thing again at 5:30/5:45am the next morning.
Thanks for the reminder that focus, relentless perseverance, and endless patience is how we reach our destination.
And to follow the point you made. I dumped a crappy job prematurely in order to pursue an independent gig before. It ended badly. Patience is the key. Being impatient will end everything you work for before you even really start.
Push through everything, work your rear end off, and be patient. Eventually you will be forced to quit the day job because taking time off “work” to go to the day job will cost too much money.
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Hustle 2.0 baby! You get me so pumped Gary. I’m fighting so hard! Hitting the library and coffee shops to write every day after work! Keeping the big picture in perspective is so important.
Never give up!!!
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Found you through Problogger, and I am glad I did. While other smart blogger wannabes suggests that we should quit our jobs to concentrate on making money on-line, here is a tv guy who suggests that we can do both.
You got good points here that aspiring probloggers should consider. We cannot serve two masters at the same, as they say. But then, why not serve only one and be-friend the other?
Just my 2 cents.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:44 pm
My experience is that building a large website in your spare time ( 5 to 10 hours a week) takes foreevvvver!!
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:33 am
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September 3rd, 2008 at 4:39 pm
I agree. Plus when you have a 9-5, you feel confident and secure, you know you’re not starting a business because you have to earn the money to live but because you love what you do. Determination to reach your goal - quit your 9-5 job can be very motivating too.
September 7th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Gary:
Uncanny. This is exactly the schedule I keep in building my web production business. 9-1 AM while working in my “Clark Kent” job as a web marketing manager. I also have 2 young children that I am able to spend time with after work, and put them to bed before starting the night shift in the studio. It is slower, and there are times where both family time and the work time are uneven, but that is no reason why you can’t have a healthy climb to the tipping point!
Great post - love your enthusiasm!
September 8th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Time for a new GV.com vid.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:16 am
I agree so much with this. It takes a lot to achieve goals.. diligence, persistence, remaining joyful, and making sure your time is balanced just to name a few things.
I heard a story about a professional archer who was so good that he could hit the bulls eye from hundreds of feet away then with the second arrow, split the spot where he hit the first bulls eye. Someone said this guy is so good he could probably hit the target blind folded. Sounds impossible one person said. How can he hit the target without being able to see it? then the moral of the story: how can one hit a target they don’t even have? You must have goals.
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September 15th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
something gotta give; hustle now be free later
October 28th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Gary great stuff on this site. SO i take it you and Tim Ferriss of 4-hour work week fame are not the best of friends, seem to have have a 180 degree approach to success.. good stuff though
Dean Ouellette
http://www.deansellsaz.com
November 18th, 2008 at 9:40 am
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