Systems Over EVERYTHING

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

You have to be organized to win.

Prepared to win. Very few people win by accident.

Winning is always intentional.

I spent much of today cleaning up my entire workflow and backend systems to help me work even more efficiently and stop wasting time in silly, nonsensical ways.

As organized as I am, I still keep updating my systems, cleaning them out occasionally, and always striving for three things:

Simplicity!

Simplicity!!

Simplicity!!!

I’m always taking away tasks, eliminating steps, delegating work…

When I take a look at other people’s productivity systems - if they even have one - I’m usually somewhat shocked and horrified.

Several inboxes, no idea what’s coming and going where.

Multiple demands on their time and attention, but no PRIORITIES to determine which fire gets put out first.

I don’t usually get stressed out, but watching other people flail around in disorganization and panic stresses ME out.

There’s a better way.

And invariably, that better way is also a SIMPLER way.

See, I don’t have a bunch of different Notion templates or spreadsheets or time management apps and calendars. None of that shit.

I run my $5K per month creator business with Google Docs.

Seriously.

My workflow is organized by day and by platform, so I know exactly what I’m supposed to be working on, and it’s synced with my calendar so I know when it needs to be published.

I have a list…it’s literally just called my “Follow Up” list…where I empty all my extraneous thoughts about how to grow my business, projects I may want to pursue, books I want to look up later.

That Follow Up list gets cleared at the end of every workday.

My email inbox is another story, but that’s a priority for this month: getting it back down to zero and KEEPING it there.

My sanity can’t take it. When you have big goals and ambitions, you need a system that’s as simple as your vision is large.

PROGRESS ON APRIL GOALS:

Read 20 Books | 18 Books Left

Publish 12 New Time Mastery Videos | 12 Videos Left

Publish 28 YouTube Videos | 27 Videos Left

Publish 140 Medium Articles | 138 Articles Left

Get Monetized on YouTube | 3,733 Watch Hours Left

Completely Update My Social Media | 7 Platforms Left

Completely Update My Patreon Page | Incomplete

Completely Update My Newsletter Platforms | Incomplete

Completely Update My Welcome Email Sequence | Incomplete

Get Down to Inbox Zero | Embarrassing Number of Emails Left

Negotiate 10 Newsletter Partnerships | 10 Partnerships Left

Do 12 Instagram Collaborations | 12 Collaborations Left

Reach 110,000 Instagram Followers | 5,929 Followers Left

Reach 20,000 Threads Followers | 5,900 Followers Left

Reach 9,000 X Followers | 1,386 Followers Left

Reach 3,000 Medium Followers | 1,163 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 Facebook Followers | 763 Followers Left

Reach 1,000 LinkedIn Followers | 358 Followers Left

Reach 5,000 YouTube Subscribers | 3,808 Subscribers Left

Reach 5,000 Reading Life Subscribers | 1,359 Subscribers Left

Reach 1,000 Competitive Advantage Subscribers | 563 Subscribers Left

Reach 50 Competitive Advantage Members | 14 Members Left

Reach 30 Patreon Supporters | 10 Supporters Left

Update 25 Patreon Book Notes | 18 Book Notes Left

Introduce Myself to 280 Authors | 269 Authors Left

Fill 4 Author Promo Slots for May | 4 Spots Left

Fill 1 Open Business Coaching Spot | 1 Spot Left

Fill 5 Open Fitness Coaching Spots | 3 Spots Left

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.

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: 12:00PM

Sleep Quality: 83%

Pages Read: 75

Workout: Rest Day

My break from the gym is almost over. I actually may go tonight for a brief, low-intensity workout just to help me ease back into hard training. Back at slightly heavier intensity next week, and RIGHT back into the heavy shit the week after that.

Work Completed:

Posted 1x on Instagram

Posted 5x on Twitter

Posted 5x on Threads

Posted 1x to YouTube Shorts

Scouted Some New Potential Author Partners

Worked on Next Book Breakdown

Worked on Sales Page for The Competitive Advantage

Scripted My Next 2 YouTube Videos

Outlined Next 5 Medium Articles

Did Some Personal 1-1 Coaching via DMs

Reorganized My Workflow and Saved My Sanity!

Lots to be proud of today. Got some big things coming together, and the rest of this year is looking GOOD.

I still have to remind myself often to look up at my long, long, LONG term goals (I’m talking 50-100 years in the future), since I often forget that I’ve got a lot of life left ahead of me. Sometimes you just get so caught up in today, you know?

I also had an ex-girlfriend message me on Instagram today. We’ve always been on excellent terms (my mom loves her haha) and it was nice reconnecting. We talked about meeting up later this summer, but no solid plans yet.

Pretty sure that’s the first time I’ve mentioned anything more personal than just business in these emails!

But that’s it for now.

Until next time…happy reading!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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