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You need to work less, not more, to get things done.

You’re building your business on the side of your day job and it’s going well.

But you’re going so much slower than everyone else online.

They all have more followers and more business than you.

So, what’s going on?

When you finish work for the day, you’re probably exhausted.

You might have the time to work on your business if you’re lucky. But you sure don’t have the energy.

Of course you don’t!

• You’ve been in meetings all day!
• You’ve been dealing with that co-worker who doesn’t pull their weight.
• Your boss gave you more meaningless work.

How are you meant to sit down and work on your project when all you want to do is slump in front of the TV?

Take Action

Go through all the meeting in your calendar for this week.

1. Ask for an agenda for any that don’t have one
2. For those that do have an agenda, are you really needed?
3. Decline the ones you’re not needed at
4. Provide the information you know the person needs before the meeting so that you don’t have to have one.

Subscribe to an AI service

1. This depends on what you need the most. ChatGPT will do most things you want.
2. List out all the tasks you do manually where you think the AI could help
3. List the amount of time it takes to do those tasks without AI
4. List the time it takes to do with AI (sometimes it can actually be longer while you’re trying to prompt it or get the right output)
5. Save your best prompts as templates to deploy in the future

List your high leverage tasks for your own business.

1. What is going to move the needle?
2. What is scalable?
3. For Dan Koe, this is the focus on writing because that is the foundation of his business most days.
4. If you’re in build mode, it won’t be writing but will be coding or research instead.

Focus on rest.

1. Let your mind relax so it can be creative
2. Don’t fill it with junk in the morning
3. Go for a walk

If you implement all of the above, you’re going to do better at the day job in general because your time won’t be taken up with so much nonsense.

More importantly, you’re going to have the energy after the day job to build the life you want.

With the rest that you’re giving your mind, you’ll start to have creative ideas.

These probably won’t be great ideas. But they might be! You’ll not know if you don’t have them.

And once you do have these creative ideas, now you’ll have the time and energy to act on them.

Some will flop. But some will be your next great video or product.

If you don’t protect your time and energy at work, you’ll never be able to escape the rat race and build the life you want.

This is how I’m building my business on the the side.

It’s how I have the energy to have a client call at 10 pm.

Implement a minimalist workday and protect your time and energy.

Once you’ve done that, impactful rest is they key to creative ideas and building the life you want

P.S.

• Book a free call with me if you need help improving your operations with ClickUp: Book a call​
• Listen to The Koe Cast to learn more about Dan Koe’s minimalist productivity system: The Minimalist Productivity System (6 Years Of Work In 6 Months)​
• Forward this newsletter to someone you think needs to work less.