How much time do you spend doing crap? Like just roughly? It’s a vague question but when I sat down to figure out how much time I was spending productively versus how much time I was wasting, it turned out to be 10+ hours… a week. And this was pure crap time.

To those of you who are judging, look, here’s the thing. New Zealand is a beautiful country and as a nation we tend to be pretty laid back… which is great! Except if you’re like me and want to hustle 24/7 and I know there are a TON of you like that.

For those of you who haven’t been here before, this is the view from virtually any spot you stand in New Zealand.

#JellyMuch?

Okay a bit of an exaggeration but you get the idea. It’s pretty, it’s nice and at the moment it’s Summer so it’s gorgeous.

So to satiate my drive for 24/7 hustle, I started searching high and low and stumbled on Gary Vee’s recently issued challenge. It’s all about setting up a solid foundation (in financial terms I think this is called savings) and seeing if you can earn $20,170 on the side in 2017.

My biggest mistake when going into business was starting off too soon and being too ego driven to admit that maybe I need some side income while launching into my first business at the sprite age of 21. This led to a much rockier and riskier first few years than needed be (don’t worry, I wrote a whole blog post on this).

Amanda Bynes helping me get over myself

The problem with Gary Vee? The challenge itself is awesome, but I know about 50% of you are going to love Gary, the other 50% are going to think he’s an idiot. He’s quite polarising (personally I love him) so what I wanted to do was to write the challenge out from one Kiwi to another fellow Kiwi (that’s you!).

And if you’re not a fellow Kiwi, I personally grant you temporary Kiwi-ship (it’s like citizenship but completely made up). You may now read on.

Also quickly, this challenge is for absolutely anyone. Whether you’re a stay-at-home dad, a student, in kindergarten, a startup co-founder, a big business owner, ANYONE. Oh and if you have any sort of credit card or loan this is DEFINITELY for you (sorry, that’s my finance background coming up, he gets grumpy when it comes to borrowing money).