Freelance Your Way to Freedom

11Time Management Expectations

Time is the longest distance between two places.

— Tennessee Williams

This quote could not be more fitting for this chapter. You are going to have this idea in your head of what managing side hustles is going to look like—and then there is going to be the reality. The most amount of time these hustles demand from you is going to occur in those first few months. Over time, you may be able to cut down the time you once devoted to them by 80–90%. Like freelancing, if you really focus in the beginning on setting up side hustles that can hum along without you in the future, you are going to enter a state of financial freedom.

For the passive income side hustles like selling ebooks and online courses, the only time demand is going to happen in creating the product. Once it's done, perfected, uploaded, and available, you only need to worry about access to the product and directing traffic to that checkout button. In contrast, something like YouTubing can make you constant money from old video views; yet, if you want that money to stay the same or even grow, you are going to have to upload at least one video per week to the channel. The time demand remains constant, like podcasting.

Freelancing can be all consuming, or it can be entirely operational without you when you use an agency manager and virtual assistants. Virtual assistants can take over managing just about any side hustle for you, which is why we're going to look at how to vet virtual assistants ...