You Feel Behind Because You Haven't Prioritized Blank Space in Your Life

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

I’m not going to lecture you on sleep again, but I got some last night (sleep, I mean), and man did it feel amazing.

All day today I had so much…energy and clarity.

You almost forget how good it feels to be well rested if it’s been a while since you’ve had a decent night’s sleep.

But the most important thing that came of it today was that I was able to take a step back, take in the whole landscape of my business and my life and create some blank space with which to think.

I wasn’t stumbling into doorframes or waking up from unintended naps by spilling coffee on myself - all things I’ve done before in a sleep-deprived state.

I was relaxed, focused, aware, and downright dangerous as a competitor.

Your Competitive Advantage today is to create some blank space in your life and take it all in.

Stop the madness and the rushing and the anxiety and the panic and make room for introspection and deep thought. Consider your life and what you want it to be about.

It’s impossible to do that with iPhone notifications and outrage newscasts and alarms and reminders and tasks…

So just stop.

Stopping, in this case, really IS your Competitive Advantage because hardly anyone else is doing this.

A lot of the people you’re competing against are getting 4 and a half hours of sleep, slamming 3 energy drinks a day, and crashing and burning at 3pm while there’s still work to be done.

But not you.

You’re free to give yourself the gift of clarity and meaningful thought.

To look at what’s not working in your life (and what is) and make a plan of attack. A strategy for getting ahead and getting on top.

You can only do that if you have space.

Me, I forgot what having space was like for the past few weeks, but I’m back, and it feels better than I can remember.

But that’s it for today.

As always, at the bottom of this email I’ll lay out everything I did today to move closer to my Ultimate Vision. This is to keep me accountable and to show you that I’m working as hard as I’m encouraging you to work…

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Woke Up: 11:30AM (goal is to get back to a 10AM wakeup time)

Sleep Quality: 80% (still gotta bring this up but I felt good today)

Pages Read: 51 (anything less than 300 is failure in my eyes, but January has been pretty intense)

Workout: Back + Biceps

Lat Pulldowns - 55lbs, 55lbs, 50lbs, 50lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)

BB Rows - 125lbs, 125lbs, 125lbs, 125lbs - (8 reps, last set to failure)

Cable Rows - 70lbs, 70lbs, 65lbs, 65lbs - (8 reps, last set to failure)

BB Curls - 60lbs, 60lbs, 60lbs, 50lbs - (18 reps, last set to failure)

DB Curls - 30lbs, 25lbs, 25lbs, 23lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)

Work Completed:

Worked on January 50-Book Giveaway

Work on Updating My Patreon Book Notes

Posted 1x on Instagram

Posted 4x on Twitter

Posted 2x on Facebook

Posted 2x on LinkedIn

Posted 3x on Threads

Attended the Second Call of Write Your Way to $5K

Worked on Next Author Marketing Campaign

Worked on Outlining My Upcoming Paid Community

Took Some Time for Deep Reflection on My Business

Organized My Calendar and Workflow

Pretty good day productivity-wise, although I still see room for MAJOR improvements. January has been all about getting ahead on things, and up to date in others, so it’s been pretty hectic.

I have definitely let a few people down this month, which obviously I hate doing, but I’m also doing some other things well.

The only thing to do is keep working.

Until next time…happy reading!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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