Ramit Sethi: How to find time to start a business
Ramit Sethi
GrowthLab CEO Ramit Sethi  stopped by the Business Insider offices to talk business  entrepreneurship  and productivity  so we asked  him : What do you tell people who say they just can't find the time to start a business?
"The time excuse kind of drives me nuts "  he  said. "The classic response to this is 'Hey   Mark Zuckerberg  has time to do it.' But you're not  Mark Zuckerberg . Neither am I."
In fact   he  says that we only use "I don't have the time" as an excuse because we know that we can get away with it.
"What is your friend going to say 'Actually Ramit  you do have time. You watch four episodes of Vanderpump Rules every Tuesday morning  you do this  you go out to restaurants ...?' No! Because it's actually very politically incorrect to say 'Actually  you're lying to me and to yourself.' So we say  it  because we know we can get away with  it ."
 Sethi  points out that his businesses  I Will Teach You To Be Rich and GrowthLab  have many students who have successfully started businesses — "and I'm talking $10 000  $100 000  seven figures" — on five hours a week.
"Starting a business  finding the time  is about knowing what you should focus on  and knowing what you don't need to focus on "  Sethi  said. "So we get a lot of people who are like 'I gotta be on Pinterest  Twitter  Instagram  Snapchat  a million different things.' No you don't. What you need to do is find out if you have a profitable idea  and you need to sell something and generate your first revenue."
"What I do is I put it in my calendar "  Sethi  said. "So I have writing time. Every week I need to write  otherwise  if I don't put it on my calendar  it just gets away from  me . So I block it off and it becomes a non-negotiable."
Even if it's just an hour Monday morning  an hour Wednesday night  and three hours on  Saturday  Sethi  said  "all of a sudden your calendar's going to flow around those blocks  instead of you flowing around whatever life throws at you."
[TGT]stopped by the Business Insider offices to talk business  entrepreneurship  and productivity  so we asked  [TGT] : What do you tell people who say they just can't find the time to start a business?
"The time excuse kind of drives me nuts "  he  said. "The classic response to this is 'Hey   Mark Zuckerberg  has time to do it.' But you're not  Mark Zuckerberg . Neither am I."
In fact   he  says that we only use "I don't have the time" as an excuse because we know that we can get away with it.
"What is your friend going to say 'Actually Ramit  you do have time. You watch four episodes of Vanderpump Rules every Tuesday morning  you do this  you go out to restaurants ...?' No! Because it's actually very politically incorrect to say 'Actually  you're lying to me and to yourself.' So we say  it  because we know we can get away with  it ."
 Sethi  points out that his businesses  I Will Teach You To Be Rich and GrowthLab  have many students who have successfully started businesses — "and I'm talking $10 000  $100 000  seven figures" — on five hours a week.
"Starting a business  finding the time  is about knowing what you should focus on  and knowing what you don't need to focus on "  Sethi  said. "So we get a lot of people who are like 'I gotta be on Pinterest  Twitter  Instagram  Snapchat  a million different things.' No you don't. What you need to do is find out if you have a profitable idea  and you need to sell something and generate your first revenue."
"What I do is I put it in my calendar "  Sethi  said. "So I have writing time. Every week I need to write  otherwise  if I don't put it on my calendar  [TGT] just gets away from  me . So I block [TGT] off and [TGT] becomes a non-negotiable."
Even if it's just an hour Monday morning  an hour Wednesday night  and three hours on  Saturday  Sethi  said  "all of a sudden your calendar's going to flow around those blocks  instead of you flowing around whatever life throws at you."