Develop Your Creativity Instantly in 12 Minutes: Find 12 Side Hustles NOW!
I will create 12 doodle exercises in the next 12 days. This series will be made of one-minute articles that will help you quickly generate ideas and unleash your creativity.
Get your pencil and notebook. Draw a flower with 12 petals, like the one below. Here is your first challenge:
Your ultimate goal is to move towards financial independence in the long term. For this goal, you will use divergent thinking and create a lot of ideas. Here is your initial challenge towards this goal:
You will think of 12 side hustles, passive income streams, money-making opportunities, or investment portfolios.
You can get inspired by Ali Abdaal who has built 9 different streams of income for himself by the age of 23.

For example, here is how I did this exercise:
- Create a profitable YouTube channel with 10,000 subscribers (achieve min. $300 a month in a couple of years)
- Create a Medium profile of 1000 articles and 10,000 subscribers (achieve min. $500 a month in a couple of years)
- Create a portfolio of 50 digital products on GumRoad (achieve $200 a month in a couple of years)
- Create at least 5 digital books and start selling them (achieve $100 a month after a couple of years)
- Create an innovative portfolio of cutting-edge courses that will change students’ lives for the better
- Create online short courses and workshops that will inspire students from all walks of life (achieve $2000 a year)
- Engage in executive training, consulting, and speaking arrangements in different parts of the world (and online) to create a premium income stream for the long term
- Achieve additional income of $1000 a month using the sharing economy, Airbnb, and other entrepreneurial hustles
- Create a long-term portfolio of crypto-currencies and NFTs (including investments in the Metaverse, Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.) worth more than $10,000 and potentially increase it over time.
- Create a long-term investment portfolio of diverse stocks worth more than $20,000 and potentially increase it over time.
- Create a portfolio of 1000 doodles and doodle art over the long term (think of exhibitions, digital products, pictures, artwork, NFTs, etc.)
- Use my creativity and entrepreneurial skills to create exciting and surprising things based on my passions and curiosities (X-factor projects that are unknown, but will emerge in time).
It is your turn now. Do the exercise now — it will be very rewarding for you. In 12 minutes, you will create your 12 ideas. Write them on the flower petals.
I will continue this exercise series over the next 12 days. On each day, you will receive a straightforward creative challenge where you will create 12 ideas in 12 minutes.
Fahri Karakas is the author of Self-making Studio, If Life Gives You A Squash, Squash It!, and 99 Creative Journeys: Unleash Your Imagination. He is passionate about doodling, creativity, asset creation, and the future.
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