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Classrooms are also a promising setting to meet a variety of
people, including potential contacts for a new career or clients
for your start-up business. Moonlight and experiment with a new
business idea in the evenings and weekends. Take a creative writ-
ing class and get working on that book or screenplay. If you think
you don’t have time now, just unplug the TV and hide it in the
back of a closet. That usually frees up an instant twenty hours a
week—enough time to take evening classes and retrain for a new
career, get a hobby or small business going, or moonlight in an
activity that interests you.
Make another list right now of all the things you’ve been wait-
ing to do when the economy improves, or when you get a good
income, or when you have more time. I’ve worked with a num-
ber of clients who, when they finally did have more time (because
they were downsized), wasted that precious time instead of actu-
ally doing the things they said they’d do if they had time, such as
travel to a foreign country or volunteer for an organization they
admire. I realize you may well not have money right now, but you
do have time, so take advantage of this fact to do those things that
take time—the crafting class, putting the photo albums together,
learning a new skill or language. You can do this and still work
part-time if you must to generate some income while you are
searching for the perfect work or career.

WHEN I HAVE MORE TIME OR MONEY I’LL . . .

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