Options beyond your job, without quitting anything tomorrow.
About 10 minutes, 5 short steps. You walk away with ONE small step, three tiny milestones and a weekly check-in that waits for you right here.
I built YouTube, digital products and memberships on the side for a couple of years before I left 25 years of teaching. Start before you're desperate. Future you will be so much calmer.
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1Find your hours
A week has 168 hours. Slide each one to your best guess. No judgment, just numbers.
Your hidden pockets
Small, real chunks of time you'd actually use. Pick 2 or 3.
2What you already have
You're starting with more than you think. Tap anything that's true. Weird counts.
The one I'll start with
Tap a few things above, then pick the one that makes you sit up a little.
3AI in your job, right now
Before AI builds a business, it can buy back some of your week at the job you already have.
"I learned to use AI with my own expertise. It helped me keep my head above water and still do a great job for my students. (Best test scores, too.)"
Here's the part people skip: you have to know how to use it, and you bring your own expertise to it. Once you're comfortable, you can do fantastic things.
What kind of work do you do?
Read everything before you use it, fix what it got wrong, and add the part only you know. Keep private details (student, patient, customer or company info) out of AI tools, and follow your workplace's rules about which tools you can use.
4Pick your first step
Pick ONE. Small and cheap beats big and someday. It has to fit inside your pockets from Step 1.
5Your 3 milestones + a check-in day
Milestones are tiny wins you can see. Done or not done, nothing fuzzy.
Your weekly check-in
Come back here once a week. It takes about 5 minutes: tick off what's done, log one small win, pick your next tiny step.
6Your plan
Saved on this device. Come back on your check-in day and it'll be right here.
6 weekly check-ins, 5 minutes each. Each one links straight back to your check-in here.
Apple and Outlook desktop download a small calendar file. Open it to add all 6. Outlook.com on the web can only add the first one, so set it to repeat weekly when it opens.
Next: pick a save-time move
Your hours are found. Now grab one small move that frees up a little more time this week.
This is a planning tool, not a promise of income. What happens next depends on your time, your effort and your situation.