 Home Office Hacks for the new entrepreneur, save time and money. So, you're a big shot entrepreneur now, huh? Ooh, big shot, right? Nobody can see you. Nobody can see you. You know, I think it's so funny when people say, well, I'm an entrepreneur now. I don't even know what that means outside of the fact that I know you're gonna have to work a lot harder than you did on your job for the other guy that was paying you. I know that for a fact and I know in the beginning, you're gonna make less money. So, you might as well set it up right. This video is all about setting up your home office. I want you to, I wanna get one thing out of the way that whether you're a teenager or you're an adult or whatever age you are when you're listening to this, you can make money online. I just wanna get that out of the way. Some of you may not realize that. I have a lot of comments from teenagers and saying, you know, how do I make money as a teenager? The same way you would make money as a 25-year-old because the people online don't go, hey, I think I wanna buy this bell right here, but how old is the person that's selling it? I wanna know. They don't, they never do. So, you've gotta understand that online, it's an equalizer. They don't care what race you are, they don't care what your gender is, they don't care about anything. They care about the product, whatever product they're buying. So, don't worry about it. And I just wanna get that out of the way because so many people are like, am I too old to make money online? I started when I was 50, okay? And I didn't think I was too old. I don't think I'm too old now and I'm older now than I was then, okay? But the point is it doesn't matter how old you are, it doesn't matter how tall you are, it doesn't matter what you weigh, what for your health it does, sure it does. Don't don't get out of shape. But it doesn't matter, it's irrelevant. So, we're gonna talk about setting up your office, saying we wanna save money, that's why we wanna do this. And I want you to think in this way of thinking because I didn't in the beginning and I should have saved money, conserved money. And I'm not bad at it, never was bad at it. But there were things I bought before that I probably shouldn't have bought because I was anticipating more money coming in and it didn't at points that it was tight, okay? So now I'm really conservative about what I buy. I think about it over and over. I rarely will just go online and see something and buy it. I wait till at least a day or two. If I wait a day or two, a lot of times the urge to buy it will go away. And I want you to do the same thing with your home office. I also want you to think about the fact that you need to conserve all you can in your home office because probably nobody's gonna see it. Let's decide how we're gonna do this. First thing we're gonna do is decide our work office space. Where's our work office space? This is my work office space for videos. But you know what? My work office space is also a TV tray and the couch in many cases in my living room. Now, I never have a TV on when I'm working. I just don't do that. I think that's a bad idea. Matter of fact, I rarely have a TV on unless it's after nine or 10 o'clock at night. And then I don't have long to watch it. And I don't even watch it long then, maybe an hour. And then I'm gonna get in bed and get my laptop out and do a little bit more work or maybe watch a YouTube video or something like that. But think about your work space because if you're in the wrong space it's gonna be hard for you to be productive. Create your floor plan. Now you say, well, JR, I don't have any room. I'm in a one bedroom apartment. What's my floor? I don't have a floor plan. Well, I'll tell you, I had a pretty large house when I started my home-based business. But I knew that I didn't wanna go to some other room, some other place in the house, some room upstairs and work. I wouldn't have enjoyed that. So in my bedroom, I put a small desk and I had my computer and that was my workspace. That was my floor plan. So your floor plan doesn't have to be elaborate. It can be a desk and it can be a chair. If you notice on my desk, I don't even have a desktop computer. I did a few years ago, but I just got rid of it. I never used it. I always use this laptop. This is my whole business right here. This is my business. So if something happens to this, I'm kinda screwed. But this is my business. You don't have to have a lot. Quit thinking that you have to have three monitors to get all these things done. I love seeing people with all these monitors and arms going up and all these things. When I know they can only concentrate on one thing at a time. People say, well, I multitask that way. That way I can watch. No, you're not multitasking. There's no such thing as multitasking. It doesn't exist. We've been sold a bad bill of goods. Here's what happens with your brain. It can only think of one thing at a time. It can only concentrate on one thing at a time. So if you've got three things going on, what it's doing is it's switching from this thing to this thing to this thing. Like there's three monitors and it's going back and forth constantly. Which what it's also doing is it's not doing service to all three of those things at the same time. So you're not doing any of the things well. You're just doing a whole bunch of things that you think you're doing at the same time. You can't multitask. You only need one screen right here. This is it. Some people will argue with me. I don't care. You can't multitask, not possible. Next thing is determine what you can do yourself. You know, before you start hiring accountants and you start hiring lawyers and graphic arts people and SEO people and website designers and all that crap. Stop. What can you do yourself? I didn't have an accountant in the beginning. I didn't need an accountant. I had nothing to account for. I had no money. So why would I need an accountant? Everybody says you got to go out and get an accountant right away. No, you can get some accounting advice but you don't need an accountant when you don't have any money. I'm telling you, there's not much for them to do. Same thing with SEO. You know, I tried to learn my own SEO and I did my own SEO. I built my own websites as far as I could and then when I had to hire somebody I did. But decide what you can do on your own to save some money. You'll want to conserve money. You're gonna trust me on this later on because things will go wrong and you're gonna be glad you saved your money. Next thing I'll tell you for setting up your home office is use what you've got. Use what you've got in the beginning. I didn't have a desk like this in the beginning. I had this old metal thing that I've had for years and years and years and moved it across country. And that was my desk, okay? I didn't have any fancy computer. I had old desktop computer and that was what I had. And if I wanted something to motivate me I'd get some pictures of my kids or something and put them on the desk. You probably don't need to buy anything. If you've got a comfortable chair in your house it doesn't have to be an office chair. Here's the problem with you watching this video right now. You're seeing this nice fancy desk and fancy chair and nice equipment and all this stuff. I didn't have this stuff in the beginning. These are things I don't even need now but I have them now because I earned some money and I felt like, eh, go ahead and get it now. Now I get it. But these things didn't earn me money. So don't think that you gotta have these things to earn money because they didn't make me money. They really didn't. And they probably aren't really making me money now. Maybe it makes the video look a little bit better, something like that. But in the beginning you don't need any of this because for the most part nobody's gonna see you anyhow. I didn't do videos like this in the beginning. I was selling products online. I did e-commerce, which I still do. So I didn't need to have all these accoutrements here. All these fancy things. They weren't necessary. I think for doing YouTube videos it's helpful. It maybe makes it a little bit more interesting. You got this bell here. You got this guy here going like this. Hey, it looks pretty interesting for my YouTube videos, but it's not what made me the money in the beginning. And it won't make you money either. Conserve your money. Try to use what you already have. You know, you can construct a DIY office setup. Let's say you need file cabinets. And if you notice, I don't even have file cabinets because I don't have files. But if you had two file cabinets, you could lay a board across it and boom, you've got a desk. It's that simple. And I think it's so funny when people try to start a business and they think they need certain furnishings to make it happen. They don't. You know, I'll tell you the majority of the work that I've done before the sickness hit the world was done at a Starbucks on their table and their seat. Okay, I didn't even use my own chair and table. I used theirs. I would sit there for two, three, four hours and use their free internet. You don't need all this stuff. That's why this video is so important to somebody who's been through it and who spent money on that stuff and realized I didn't need it. And that's not what made me money. It was my effort that made me money. It wasn't my office setup. So many people say, well, I got to get the coolest office setup. Get some shoeboxes and stack them up if you've got a printer and stuff like that. I don't even have a printer in my office. My wife has one at her office and once every two or three months will print something but we pretty much went paperless. If I have paper coming in and that was the only way I could stay organized, my desk used to have papers everywhere. Papers, it was terrible, papers everywhere. Now what I do is if I get a piece of paper which I don't want it, I don't want any paper but if I do get a piece of paper, I look at it and I say, is this important or not important? If it's not important, I shred it, okay? If it's got pertinent information on it. And if it is important, I will take a picture of it or I'll scan it and then I put it online or I put it on a desk or somewhere then I get rid of that piece of paper. I don't have any paper. I don't want paper, don't need paper. Now I will tell you, I used to use a lot of paper. I used to print out a lot of stuff and you can't see it but I've got a file cabinet kind of closet over there and I've got reams of paper because I bought one of those big boxes of paper when I started using it, not long after I bought that paper I quit using paper. So now I've got a lot of paper. Don't know what to do with it. Next thing I'll tell you is shop around for cheap bargains. Look at swap meets, look at flea markets. You know, go into the Facebook marketplace or there's actually some buy nothing groups in Facebook now where you could get a desk for free, you get a chair for free. You don't need this stuff. You don't need it. Nobody's gonna see you, okay? Nobody's gonna see you. It's so funny how people think they need all these nice new shiny things because they have a new business. You don't need them. You don't need them. You don't even need an office. I could have just not done this video and said just go someplace that has internet. You could pull up in front of KFC. KFC has some of the best internet by the way. That's a little bit of a secret right there. You could pull up in your car and get a tray. I have a tray that hooks on the steering wheel and I can put my laptop right there and I can work in front of a KFC. There's my office, there's my office setup but that's not what this video is about. We gotta get back to what the real office is but you can also accept free furniture. There's a lot of free furniture out there that people wanna get rid of. I know I had a bunch of file cabinets from my old office and I said, well, I've got some nice file cabinets. I'm gonna sell these and there's a few hundred bucks here and I can tell you ultimately, I gave them all the way because nobody would. I went to the Goodwill and pulled up with file cabinets and you know what they said? We don't accept them. You don't accept them. This is free though. They say, I know but we get so many. We don't have anything to do with it. Nobody wants a file cabinet. And then I realized that paper's useless because nobody's filing anything anymore. File cabinets are gone. I don't know who the file cabinet salesman were if that was even a job but they don't have a job anymore. That's done. Something else you can do is swap with friends. Talk to some of your friends online. I'm sure there's a Facebook group about that where you can swap stuff. I know my wife uses the buy nothing group and you can go in there and there's stuff there every single day on the buy nothing group. We're in San Diego now and we have a buy nothing group here and I know there's one in Texas where we're moving to but you can go among these groups and I'm sure you can furnish your office for nothing. So if you clicked on this video thinking I'm gonna learn how to decorate a really cool office I'm an entrepreneur who's here to tell you don't spend your money. Don't do it. Not necessary. Certain things you need to spend money on and you're gonna need money for that. I do YouTube videos so I have to have a decent camera. I have to have some decent lighting. Doesn't mean you need them because you can start in the beginning by standing right in front of a window and filming from the window to your face and that will give you the lighting that you need. You can use your iPhone because when I started the cameras on the iPhones, they were not this good. They're really good now. I can shoot 4K on my iPhone video, 4K video on my iPhone, okay? So you don't even need a DSLR camera not necessary, you don't need it but I have it now. We have the stuff and I've got the cordless microphone. You don't need a cordless microphone. You know, I'll put a link in the description down there. There's a wired microphone you can get if you wanna have your camera further away from you. If you're gonna have your iPhone any more than three feet away from you, yeah, you're probably gonna need, you know, a microphone of some sort but you don't have to get an expensive one. Not necessary. Wait on all this stuff guys. Don't buy stuff if you have to put anything on a credit card especially if you're quitting your job to be an entrepreneur or that's what you've already done. Don't put anything in a credit card. Just not necessary to do that. Understand these people aren't gonna see you especially if you're e-commerce or you're doing a course or whatever it is. You know, you need this basic stuff. Most everybody has everything they need to have a home office right now. You've got a telephone. You've got a light. You've got sunshine. You probably got someplace to sit wherever you live and if you wanna put stuff on here, you know, oftentimes I'll have a pillow on my lap at night with my laptop on top of that and that's my desk. So don't think you need all this stuff but do try to designate an area where you're gonna work where you're not gonna be disturbed. I hope this video was helpful to you. I hope it gave you some insight. May not be what you have wanted. You may have wanted to decorate this really cool office. I'm not a decorator guy, okay? I'm a guy who's here to tell you how to make money online and how to save your money so that you have money because if you have money, you have security. You have money, you've got freedom. So I'd much rather you had that money and you had that freedom and security and you could do what you want with your time than you had a fancy office. Fancy offices, you don't need them. But I do like my desk, okay? I do like my desk, custom desk. Had it built a couple of years ago. Very happy with it. It's very heavy. If you saw the stand below, that's also all welded and kind of cool too. Nobody even sees it. Didn't need the stand below, did I? Didn't need it, nobody sees it. Oh well, thank you so much for watching this video. Don't forget, the important thing you need to do for your home office is to subscribe to this channel. You gotta go down there and hit that subscribe button. 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