I'm Finally Learning This Crucial Lesson About Productivity

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

I’m going to take my own advice on this one and set myself up for success tomorrow.

I’ve been HALF-DECENTLY productive these past few months, while navigating some pretty grueling life-changes that I’ve spoken about before.

But honestly, what’s always made the biggest impact on my productivity each day is the TIME of day that I schedule for deep work.

And the time of day I schedule for important, but not “deep” work.

And the time of day I schedule for “everything else” that needs to get done.

By FAR, the days I get the most done are those where I’ve scheduled the work that takes the most out of me FIRST, when my energy is highest.

It’s such stupidly simple, commonplace advice that I even feel a little bit lame for dropping it into your inbox this morning. But if you’re anything like me…

You needed the reminder.

Just TRY IT.

Take that “thing” - that creative, intellectually labor-intensive task that always drains you and that you always keep putting off, and move it into that time slot in your day when your energy is at its PEAK, when you’re just FIRING.

I guarantee you that it’ll make a huge difference. And I also guarantee you that you’ll forget, and that you’ll have to be reminded all over again, just like me.

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Note: I’ll update follower counts once per week, since it’s such a waste of time to go through all of them every single night. Also, Threads annoyingly doesn’t give exact numbers. Oh well.

Read 5 Books | 3 Books Left

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Completely Update My Email Welcome Sequence | COMPLETE

Update 10 Patreon Book Notes | 5 Book Notes Left

Introduce Myself to 250 Authors | 242 Authors Left

Woke Up: 3:00PM (I KNOWW)

Sleep Quality: 80%

Pages Read: 92

Workout: Rest Day

I’m taking this week off from the gym to sprint towards completing as many of my June goals as possible. I’m not entirely happy about it, but I’ll get some home workouts in at least.

Work Completed:

Posted 3x on Twitter

Posted 3x on Threads

Worked on Next Book Breakdown

Managed My Skool Community

Worked on Updating My Social Media

Completely Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow

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Kind of another disappointing day, I gotta tell you. Nothing “bad” happened - it was even kind of relaxing and fun! But almost everything I’ve worked to accomplish in June has taken longer than expected and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t just a LITTLE bit disheartened about that.

But like I said yesterday, we just keep moving on. No matter what. I’ll get everything done eventually, no matter how long it takes, and I’m actually looking forward to the clean slate of July, where I can REALLY go hard again.

I’ll need to get more on top of my sleep though, and make a few other positive changes. I’m still making good money, still gaining followers and influence, building authority, building my network, etc. But the work continues!

But hey, it’s 3:16AM here right now and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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