{"id":493,"date":"2010-11-22T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=493"},"modified":"2016-09-28T17:09:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T22:09:40","slug":"treat-it-like-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2010\/11\/treat-it-like-business.html","title":{"rendered":"Treat it like a business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you treat it like a business, it will pay you like a business. If you treat it like a hobby, it will pay you like a hobby.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bjmccray\/5198894654\/\" title=\"Weekly schedule by bjmccray, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Weekly schedule\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4085\/5198894654_953cf2703d_m.jpg\" width=\"240\"><\/a>I first heard that in the Mary Kay world. It came along with some lessons in scheduling, for building a business on the side around all your other obligations.<\/p>\n<p>Start with a weekly calendar, one that includes hourly markings. Block off your set time commitments, whether work, family, or community. Circle the times you have available for this project, even one hour at a time. Assign work to the circled time blocks, starting with your <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2006\/03\/focus-on-your-ipas-income-producing.html\">income producing activities<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>The opposite is to treat it like a hobby: to work on it when you feel like, or whenever you find time. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s up to you. Do you want a new business, or do you want a hobby? <\/p>\n<p><em>New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/guided-tour.html\"> Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see? <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/get-updates.html\">Get our updates<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you treat it like a business, it will pay you like a business. If you treat it like a hobby, it will pay you like a hobby.&#8221; I first heard that in the Mary Kay world. It came along with some lessons in scheduling, for building a business on the side around all your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,5],"tags":[104],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7326,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/7326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}