2025 Is The Year You Finally Start Your One-Person Business. Here’s How (With $0 & Limited Time)

2025 is the year of the solopreneur.

Author in Bangkok: Fruit anyone?

I started my first one-person at 26.

With $0 and no clue what I was doing. At the time, I was working for a manager that made my life hell. I wanted to quit my 9–5 job so badly.

Here’s how to finally start your one-person business in 2025.

Finding some time to build

Dead time = magic time.

I reuse time spent:

• Transiting.
• Waiting for an appointment.
• Random moments of downtime when traveling.

To:

• Write
• Build
• Learn

These small 10–20 minutes are repurposed to being unproductive to taking a small step toward my goals.

Accumulate these small wins throughout your day.

By the end, you might have 60–120 minutes to repurpose or reuse to read that book, listen to that podcast, or write that article to progress your business.

Time compounds whatever you feed it.