9 Things I Did to Stop Wasting My Evenings After Work

Guys these are the nine things that I did to stop wasting my evenings after work for me I have a full-time job and so I like doing these things after my full-time job I want you to pay attention to number seven I hardly ever talk about number 7even on this channel anymore but it was a big piece of building my wealth it's a big piece of my net worth right now so stay tuned for number seven so number one the first thing I did in my free time after work in my evenings was I educated myself when I say educated myself I mean I dedicated time to reading books to reading articles to watching YouTube channels listening to the podcast and all these things about personal finances about side hustles about investing about businesses I use the time to educate myself now for some of you it might look like certifications it might look like college it might look like a lot of different things right for me I just want to make sure that when I spent my time after work I was gaining some new knowledge and some new information and some new education that was going to propel me and help me and for me it was about various different areas it wasn't one particular thing that I educated myself on it was whatever I was working on at the time to better myself or to better my financial situation getting more and more education getting more and more learning now one of the things you're going to notice throughout this video is that I took my time very very very seriously as I was beginning to say okay how can I build wealth how can I make more money how can I grow my investments whatever it was I had to make sure that my time was focused it's the one thing we don't we can't get back right we can get more money we can get more this and that we can get friends and all that but we can't get more time back so the time was huge so you'll notice that theme throughout this whole video now the second thing I did in the evenings after work was I used that time to really build up my side hustles so in other words if I had skills from another job or I had some type of natural god-given talent and skill I would use that time after work and for me it was 5p to 9p I would use that time to really get focused in on building this side hustle that's how I built my eBay business that's how I built my uh real estate business as a landlord that's how I built my voiceover business that's how I built this YouTube business my and including my 101 Financial mentoring and coaching and writing my two books everything I did to build up my side hustles was not done during 8: to 4: or 9 to 5: in the daytime it was done in the evenings because I still have a full-time job right now it's about to be dark right but I'm using this time after work to work on making this video right it's building my side hustle and don't get me wrong I work when I'm at work right I haven't been fired from a job for probably 25 26 years since I've been fired from a job right so I always work hard at my current job that's really important because that's about integrity right when you're at work do work but after work it's all me it's all my time and that's when I can go to work on my work right so 9 to 5 is my job 5 to 9 after work in the evenings is my real work that helped get me to another level in terms of personal finances now the third thing I did after work in the evenings is I invested my time in making sure that in that time I was getting these higher paying skills through educating myself and through working on side hustles whether it was voiceover coaching or it was working on building my website or my communication or my social media skills and understanding what's needed on various platforms right what you post on LinkedIn cannot be the same thing necessarily that you post all the time on Facebook or that you put in the community tab on YouTube right sometimes you have to learn how to tailor what you're posting that's going to be that's helping you market and advertise your business for different platforms so I was learning these skills along the way right as well as the skill of learning to help listen to people and help solve people's problems and be a problem solver to help other people out that was huge right but these are all skills that I had to hone after work in the evenings when it's 600 7 8:00 in the evening I had to be working on these valuable skills that are higher paying skills or at least going to help me make more money so for example something as simple as editing editing a video right on YouTube you know when you when I first started off on YouTube YouTube and I tried to edit a video it would take me like 6 7 hours literally to edit a 10 or 15 minute video it took a long time right but I just kept working it kept working it kept doing it kept doing it now it might take me an hour hour and a half two hours to edit a 15minute video on YouTube that's a skill that I worked on and working on that skill helped me do more videos which helped me make more money doing videos right but I had to put in the time to hone that skill that was going to lead to making more money on YouTube now the fourth thing I did after hours in the evening hours is budgeting and reviewing my personal finances in other words perfecting my money management skills after hours right in the evening when work was done going home looking at the budget looking at the net worth statement understanding how could I add assets understand how could I reduce debt right or reduce the liability side of my net worth equation so it was about reviewing and tracking my spend regularly updating that budget planning for future expenses making sure I had it written down on a piece of paper and a spreadsheet and let just learning the tools necessary to be a better manager of my money that was huge right I perfect I used that time instead of like netflixing and chilling and watching TV and all that I perfected the skill of managing money and disciplining myself around managing money I got a got to admit it look I'd rather right now I'd rather review my budget than watch a TV show now don't get me wrong I watch a little bit of TV but it's really going to be old TV shows or I might watch some sports right some college football some college basketball some NBA whatever it could be look I watch a little bit of TV but I don't sit and watch TV when I'm watching TV I'm working when I'm watching TV I'm creating something when I'm watching TV I'm producing a a thumbnail when I'm watching TV or listening to TV in the background I'm doing something productive in that evening and a lot of times it's money related now the fifth thing I did was I networked strategically right so when I started to learn about real estate one of the first things I did was I joined the local Landlord Association or I join the local Real Estate Association I use the time after work in the evenings to Mill around talk to converse with hang around other people that do they were at where I'm where I want to be or going where I want to go similar like-minded people I use the time to network with these people so when it was voiceovers I used that time to get around and deal with the voiceover Community after hours I couldn't do it at my job so what time is left 5:00 to 9: 6:00 p. m. to 10:00 p.

m. right but I had to get around people that would doing it so I built the relationships with people that could lead to mentors and Partnerships and just growing in that space now the sixth thing was in that 5 to9 period after work right instead of wasting time I went out and I started to learn how to grow my investments in other words research research research investing stocks bonds how to read and in evaluate index funds and ETFs right and other investment opportunities how to understand REITs how to re search uh various individual stocks how about the technology sector how about what's going on with paler what's going on with Bitcoin what's going on with the Dow Jones the NASDAQ the S&P 500 learning all of this information about Investments right what's happening with my tsp right cund s fund ifund fund G what is all that what does it mean so I spent time doing the research on investing understanding how to invest understanding the stock market right and understanding real estate right as an investment so instead of wasting my time after work I spent time on investments now speaking of Investments number seven is huge the seventh thing I did and this was really big from two the year 2000 to the year 2008 seven or eight was I spent that time after work understanding the real estate game canvasing neighborhoods for vacated properties talking to owners locating motivated sellers right everything that I had to do in terms of real estate now I don't talk about real estate as much as I used to on this channel but I use real estate as a really big viable piece to building my wealth so it was after hours in the evenings after work that I would you know Drve neighborhoods research addresses really go in on screening my tenants doing the maintenance and repairs that was necess or at least setting up maintenance and repairs on my properties for the larger repairs that I didn't do myself it was all about that time after work that was huge right back then in from 2000 to 2007 or 2008 I was in the office every day but that was the time that I was really building up my real estate and I was spending time after work focused on it now the eighth thing that I did to stop wasting my evenings after work that helped me build wealth and reach my Financial Freedom was taking care of my physical being right my physical body right making sure that I if it was me meal prepping if it was eating healthy exercising and working out I see I don't typically work out in the mornings all right I don't think I've worked out in the mornings more than three or four times in my life but I've worked out in the evenings right so that's when I work out and I do something physical whether it's playing basketball or it's lifting weights doing some calisthetics it's walking whatever it could be now during my lunch break when I used to go into the office I used to take walks over lunch but for the most part my evenings is when I have to work out to to exercise to walk to do whatever I want to do in terms of physically taking care of my physical well-being look a 20-minute workout is better than nothing don't sleep on those quick 20-minute workouts because if you focus and you minimize the rest between sets or whatever you're doing you can get a lot done in 20 minutes even if that's all you have to do at 8:00 at night or 9:00 at night or whenever you get off work and you have the time to squeeze in right and I know this is a lot of stuff that I'm giving you and it's hard to do it all from 5:00 p. m.

to 9:00 p. m. but the thing you want to do is just take away the bits and pieces of what I'm talking about and see how they fit in your life now the ninth thing is just simply this 5:00 p.

m. to 9:00 p. m.

or 6:00 p. m. to 10: p.

m. has always been a good time to reflect and plan right whether it's spending time going over what you did checking out your your daily routine and habits or whatever you have in terms of your agenda for the day reflecting on your financial goals reflecting on your progress reflecting on the things that I have to do better the things that I did right the things that I did wrong and just using this time to plan even if it's just as simple as planning the next day's task what right what did I not accomplish today but I want to accomplish tomorrow I will be working on and thinking about that from 5:00 p. m.

to 9:00 p. m. or up until 10: p.

m.