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5 Weird (& Wonderful) Things I’ve Done For Money
Now I won’t go so far as to say I’d do anything for money but my limit is quiet high. One of my friends recently told me that when her mum was asking what I was up to now, she replied with “erm I’m not actually 100% sure, but if it makes money, Jess is doing it”. Pretty accurate. I have jumped on some very random money making opportunities that have come my way over the past couple of years. And today I’m sharing my top five with you! Now, most of my side hustle experiences have been typical – the boring surveys, getting a second (& third) job, starting…
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£10k Side Hustle Challenge – Month 1 Update
In 2024, I am embarking on a 10k Side Hustle Challenge. Ten grand. Even writing that down seems INSANE! But I’m very optimistic that I will smash this goal! My last side hustle challenge was to make £5,000 by the end of my gap year to match my spending budget. I had initially thought it would take the whole year to achieve but incredibly I smashed that goal in 7 1/2 months. That means the goal I set was too easy so I’m doubling it. The Rules This year I will have two main sources of income, my summer job and my winter job. And as this is a side hustle challenge…
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24 Money Challenge Ideas for Your 2024 Challenge
A money challenge is a fab way to gamify saving (or making) more money. And if you’re anything like me, that gamification is the key to keeping you motivated and more likely to actually succeed. Want to start a money challenge in 2024 but don’t have an idea? This is the post for you. Here are 24 ideas for you to take inspiration from… SAVE £2024 IN 2024 I saw a version of this money challenge on instagram (cannot for the life of me reminder what account but it was on my explore page) and absolutely love the idea! Set up a specific pot or account and aim to save…
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£10k Side Hustle Challenge – My Big Goal For 2024
I LOVE a money challenge!! Like obsessed! I’m highly motivated by goals, streaks and money so the perfect combination of these three is a side hustle challenge. Sign me up! I like to have one on the go at all times to keep me focused and motivated. So when 2024 rolled round and I didn’t already have one in mind, it was time to go to the drawing board. And within minutes my new challenge was decided. In 2024, I am challenging myself to side hustle £10,000. Ten grand. Even writing that down seems INSANE! But I’m very optimistic that I will smash this goal! My last side hustle challenge…
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How To Create A Simple Habit Tracker On Notion
I first heard about the book Atomic Habits by James Clear back in 2021 but dismissed it as a boring self help guide I didn’t need to bother reading. Fast forward 3 years and I still haven’t read the book but I have been using some of it’s techniques for over a year and I have noticed a massive different. Both in my daily productivity and in how I felt day-to-day. Having habits that I want to achieve each day gave even the laziest of days a purpose. A tick list for me to complete so every night when I went to bed I didn’t feel like I’d wasted the…
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20 Income Streams I Had In 2023 – Full Earnings Breakdown
2023 was my first full year out of education since I was 3 and it’s definitely been an unconventional year. I brought the new year in in a car park in Seattle watching the space needle fireworks and ended the year in the pub I worked at whilst at uni. An ending I never saw coming but soon became one of the best decisions I’ve ever made! I spent the majority of the year travelling full-time and living off a pot of savings. I was still dabbling in a variety of side hustles and ended the year with money coming in from 20 different avenues. Crazy. Plus the total took…
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9 Big Goals I Want To Achieve In 2024
Setting yearly goals has been something I’ve done consistently for the past 4 years and 2024 is no different! I’ve set around 30 goals that I want to achieve over the next year but they can be narrowed down to these 9 main goals… READ 100 BOOKS I set the same goal last year and ended the year on 159 books finished. I did consider upping my reading target for 2024. However I foresee this year being a little bit busier than last year so I’m sticking strong at 100 books. That’s an average of 8 books a month which sounds incredibly doable. TRAVEL TO 10 NEW COUNTRIES I have…
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I Entered 2000+ Competitions… But Did I Actually Win Anything?
Towards the end of 2022, it felt like everyone and their dog was winning thousands of amazing prizes through comping. From actual thousands in cold hard cash to holidays in the Maldives, these wins were all over my instagram feed and I thought “that’s gonna be me next year”. To the point that I made “enter 10,000 comps” a 2023 goal and added a picture of an over-water villa in the Maldives to my vision board. I was going to win a bunch of incredible prizes and then be the one posting on instagram about the cool wins. Well, that’s not exactly how it went. What is comping? Comping is…
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3 Side Hustles I Want To Focus On in 2024
Testing out new side hustles have become one of my biggest passions. I absolutely love finding the weird and wonderful ways to make money – whether that’s online, in person or a mix of both. This hobby of mine led to me ending 2023 with 20 different income streams, none of which are fully sustainable or predictable. So in 2024 I want to narrow my attention a little bit and focus on a few side hustles that I can either see becoming a sustainable income stream or something I’ve been putting off. Now this doesn’t mean that I’ll be ditching all the other side hustles I have, just that I…
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Income System – How I Deal With Multiple Income Streams As A Full Time Freelancer
I entered the crazy world of freelancing at a very strange time in my life. I was on a gap year housesitting my way through 11 countries and living off a pot of money I had saved during my third year of uni. So I never had to really think about what to do with the money I was earning on the side. It kinda just haemorrhaged towards whatever the priority was that month. But when I got back from my fab year abroad with the crazy thought that I could just keep going, I had to use the money I was earning more effectively. I would spend hours each…
