Imagine for a second, what feelings and thoughts come to mind after watching multiple YouTube videos on someone who has had success on their side hustle? Envy? Greed? Or the yearning to do the same?
If it’s all of the above, you’re in good company.
In her recent video, Marina Mogilko who runs Lingua Trip and owns three YouTube channels, shared her view on how to work with your emotions while trying to build multiple streams of income.
In our highly connected social world, you’ll hear a friend setting up an online store and you wonder if you should do the same. Then someone else earns money just by posting videos online and you’d want to do that too. Marina calls herself greedy when she does this. I’d like to think of it as the fear of missing out (FOMO).
Limit your exposure to social distractions
And because of all the distractions, Marina found that slowing down and taking time off social media was the best way to clear her thoughts. Yes – avoid social media – says the content creator herself.
In fact, she recommends the following techniques to cure your FOMO-ism.
- Unfollow those people
- Stop watching YouTube videos
- Stop hanging out with your friends
- Focus on doing what you most desire
I’ve tried some of these methods and it certainly helped calm my thoughts.
Try it for a few days, or the weekend at the very least. Who knows what you might discover about yourself instead of following other people doing what they love.
And when you’re ready to try out a side muse for yourself, use our Muse Sprint framework – a system that allows you to quickly test side hustle ideas in a short timeframe – to identify if it’s a side muse you resonate with.
Putting in place what Marina mentioned, we crunched all the YouTube research, social media learnings into the first week and starve off those channels in the second week for laser-focused testing during our Muse Sprint.