When your hobby turns into a hustle, check if you still like it on the days nobody pays you.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Turning something you love into income changes your relationship with it, because now a number decides whether it went well. The honest test is the unpaid day. If you only want to touch it when it earns, the pleasure has been traded for the pay without anyone telling you the exchange rate.

Give it one session this week with nothing riding on it, nothing posted and nothing sold. See how it feels in your hands. If the answer is flat, that is worth learning early, while you can still change the arrangement.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Would you still do your side work unpaid?

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