Daily schedule

What are you doing with your time?

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A few days ago my dad looked at the bookshelf I’ve got in my room and started browsing through my collection of the 70-something books I’ve collected and (mostly) read over the past 1–2 years.

Some titles caught his attention—either as interesting titles he’d someday wanted to read or simply as titles he recognized and might or might not previously have read himself.

Either way, he then muttered the following in a way that made it seem he was more so talking to himself than he was to me, “I should really start reading more often”.

The thing is, he’s juggling a lot of stuff currently.

Some examples (purposefully kept vague for privacy reasons):

He recently started a new IT consulting job for which he’s taking a lot of additional training, both at home by experimenting with this new (at least to him) technology to learn how to best serve his customers, as Earl Nightingale would tell you are your real bosses, as well as following different trainings through his employer to collect some new certificates.

At the same time, he’s also working on getting his online business gig up and running, regularly working out (6 times a week right now—he’s actually doing better in terms of fitness than I am right now (and I introduced him to it)) which also includes heavily counting his calories and making sure his macros are correct, reading my emails and almost everything else I write (sorry not sorry for giving you extra work to do throughout the day), as well as being a father and a husband and keeping time for family and leisure.

So that made me realize something.

We all have so much stuff we want do, stuff we don’t want to do, and stuff we simply need to do no matter whether we want it or not. A lot of stuff, yet not a lot of time to do everything. Let alone all the stuff we spend our time on that we neither actually want nor need to do (these are the real time-wasters).

You’d be surprised how much time of our day we spent on that last type of activity (I know I waste a ton of time every single day).

Anyway.

I won’t claim to know the solution to fixing your time schedule and being able to doing everything you want to do—I don’t know.

What I do know is the importance of recognizing the problems in your daily schedule and actively sitting down trying to come up with 1) your current schedule (including the time you waste) 2) your ideal schedule and 3) a better, improved, and realistic schedule you could start working towards to make your life and the world you live in a better place.

That said.

Another thing I know, when it comes to working on improving your business AND saving time, is that you can do both of these by applying the tips and principles I teach in Email Valhalla to write faster while also writing more persuasively so you can build a bigger list, make more sales, and build a bigger, better, more thriving business, all while spending less time selling.

Don’t believe my biased ass?

Check it out for yourself here: https://alexvandromme.com/valhalla


I have a confession to make

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I haven’t been hand-copying sales letters anymore.

This bad behavior of mine has been going on for almost a month now (25 days to be precise). Truth be told, I have no excuse for it either.

It all started when I messed up my shoulder a while back (even though it wasn’t my writing shoulder). Still, my mind found it a good enough reason to convince myself that it’s ok to “take a break” because of it.

Yet it wasn’t until I sat down recently and looked at my daily goals and tasks I was supposed to do that I finally noticed how I still hadn’t gotten back to doing this daily practice of mine (a practice I have no doubt has been helping me develop as both a (copy)writer and a marketer).

This might sound recognizable to you, it might not.

Who knows.

Either way, let this be a reminder to check back in on your (positive) habits once in a while to make sure everything’s in order.

Another such habit that I’ve found to immensely improve my life ever since the day I started doing it—and it has only continued to improve my life more and more the longer I keep on doing it consistently and religiously, day in, day out—was the practice of writing an email every single day.

No exceptions.

I was writing daily emails when barely anybody was reading them, when I had nothing to sell, and yes, even when I thought I had nothing to say or write about.

Even more.

All of these so-called “problems” are solved by writing daily emails and staying consistent.

Day after day.

Email after email.

Do this for at least 30 days and you’ll soon realize 1) people will start listening/reading your stuff 2) you’ll figure something out that you can sell (and something your readers need/want 3) the more you write, the more things you’ll have to say to the point where if you’ve been writing for a long enough time you’ve got too many things you want to say/write about and not enough time/days/emails to write about them.

Anyway.

If you’d like a head-start to properly get this habit of daily email writing going then check out Email Valhalla here: https://alexvandromme.com/valhalla


To work or not to work

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I’ve been taking it slow the past few days.

In fact, I’ve barely been doing anything at all.

This reminded me of an interview with Mr. Beast I once saw where he was explaining his “work schedule”.

I use the word ‘schedule’ conservatively here.

But what he said is that he’d work all the time, every single day, until you just can’t do it anymore. He works until he burns out and only then does he take a day or two off to reset and start working again… until he can’t anymore and the cycle repeats.

Admittedly, he didn’t recommend anyone to try it for themselves, but I found it a logical and efficient approach.

Now, I’m far from a Mr. Beast.

I don’t work nearly the hours he works, but I can and will work a lot depending on the situation.

And on that note, taking a day or two off once in a while isn’t a bad thing.

(I can already hear the hustle bros and productivity community screaming at me)

But let this be a reminder.

Not every system has to be complex, not every system has to be perfect, and certainly not every system is a one-size-fits-all.

Even my systems and solutions aren’t.

They’re simply created and optimized for my life, my business, and my philosophy.

But then again.

If you like the way I do things and want to build a similar business. Then I’d highly recommend you to check out Product Creation Made Easy where I dive deeper into my whole product creation framework—which (next to how I do email) is the backbone of my entire business.

Check it out here: https://alexvandromme.gumroad.com/l/product