Just As I Suspected (On My Way to a Massive Win)

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📚 Hey! Time to win.

I may be one of the last people on earth to finally learn this, but a good night’s sleep solves everything!

As I mentioned in yesterday’s email, I’m prioritizing sleep (and recovery in general) for at least the next few months, and honestly?

Probably forever, because today, with a full night’s rest behind me, was AWESOME!

I got so much done, enjoyed myself more while doing it, set myself up to win in so many different areas…

10/10 would recommend.

And it wasn’t that hard. I just went to bed earlier. That’s it. I didn’t make a big production out of it or deprive myself of anything major.

In fact, I kept my mind on the benefits I’d stand to gain from making the change, and that made it easier still.

I’ll tell you this in the hopes that it helps you as much as it helped me:

1) Invest in a comfortable bed that you actually enjoy being in, and that you can’t wait to get back to. “Investment” is definitely the right word here, too. It’ll pay dividends down the road.

2) Set a bed-time alarm, rather than (or as well as) a wake-up alarm. Getting up earlier is easy if you go to bed early enough, and I find having the added urgency of working against the alarm to be motivating as hell. Suddenly, there’s a deadline, and you have to get your work done before that alarm goes off.

3) Be okay with being tired for a day. I woke up at 10AM this morning, which means I didn’t get a full eight hours, but it was pretty damn good. I’m a little more tired today than I will be tomorrow with eight hours, which just leads me to believe that I’ll be even more productive tomorrow. One step back, two steps forward.

As a business owner, being rested is going to give you such a massive competitive advantage over all the other stupid people (I was one of them just yesterday) who AREN’T prioritizing their sleep.

They’re basically drunk on tiredness, and it’s true: more traffic accidents occur when the clocks go back, as people get 1 less hour of sleep and yet still get behind the wheel of their cars, effectively stoned on the highway.

As a fully-rested business owner, you’re basically competing against junkies and stoners with foggy brains and an immune system that fucking hates them.

Facing opponents like that, it becomes very unlikely that you don’t win.

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Note: “Week One” Runs From September 1st-7th

Woke Up: 10AM (I know, right?!)

Sleep Quality: 87%

Pages Read: 51

Workout: Rest Day

Work Completed:

Posted 3x on Instagram

Posted 5x on Twitter

Posted 5x on Threads

Posted 3x on LinkedIn

Posted 3x on Facebook

Published 2 YouTube Shorts

Recorded My Next YouTube Video

Partially Edited My Next YouTube Video

Outlined 5 New Medium Articles

Worked on Updating My Website

Worked on Current Author Campaigns

Worked on Next Book Breakdown

Worked on Next Reading Life Newsletter

Managed Paid Competitive Advantage Community

Completely Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow

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Okay, okay, I’m not going to belabor the point: but today was awesome. Incredibly productive and fun, and a LOT of that had to do with going to bed early and waking up earlier too!

So I’m going to do it again tomorrow/today.

One thing I didn’t get done that I really wish I did was publish a YouTube video, and I do NOT want to fall behind on those again this month. It’s a priority.

That being said, I ended up recording 40 mins of footage, then combing through it to chop it up, started editing - and then I ran out of time. So I’ll have to do something differently/better tomorrow.

But hey, it’s 3:03AM here right now and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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