Can’t bet money on yourself yet? Bet your evenings. Time is the investment you already have.

Capital is not the only thing you can invest, and for most people at the start it is not the one they have. Hours after work compound in the same way money does, quietly and without looking like much until a year has passed. Nobody needs permission or funding to spend an evening on their own project.

Pick three evenings a week and give them to one thing. Protect them the way you would protect a payment. In twelve months that is about a hundred and fifty hours, which is enough to change what you are capable of.