Here’s a private question I got in response to yesterdays email…

Hey Alin, I have a question.

It’s not really a copywriting question, and more like a… life question I guess?

I’m in kind of a difficult season right now, where I’m working 55-60 hours/week atm (I’ve got 3 clients currently), and am making about (redacted)/month, trying to save up money for when my wife and I move to a new city and down to one income (mine) in a couple of months. (She’s going to medical school. And — right now the 3 clients are mainly so I can get more experience and use them as social proof for better paying clients later this year.)

Anyway, on top of that, I’m in my last semester of college, planning a move, am prepping to start my YT channel in a couple months when things slow down, workout every morning at 5:30am, and trying to have a life at 21 lol.

So, my question is — it seems like you’ve had difficult seasons of life as well, so I was just wondering how you got through it without having a mental breakdown, as you briefly mentioned in the email?

Here are a few things that come to mind off the top of my head…

Have you put your day to day on a CALENDAR?

At the beginning of every week, I outline all the things I am going to do that week via my Bullet Journal notebook.

Then I pop over to my Google Calendar and literally PLACE those things on my calendar. At specific times.

When I’m gonna write emails. Or play golf. Or build a new funnel.

Whatever it is.

That’s the first place you should start because that will give you a realistic picture of where you’re either wasting a ho’ bunch of time or where you need to CUT before you even start your week.

Not to mention…

It’s mental bandwidth.

Cause each thing you need to do is an “Open Loop” in your brain and having it on a calendar tells your brain…

“Think about that at 2PM when I’m scheduled to look at it.”

Once all the good stuff is on your calendar…

AUTOMATE or ELIMINATE the crap you shouldn’t be doing.

Like… Is Twitter installed on your phone? Delete it for 3 months.

Or do you spend 2 hours a week writing YouTube Scripts? Build a templated structure like HIVE (Hook, Intro, Value, Exit) to give you a 30% head start on the scriptwriting.

Anything you do a repeated basis… give it a structure or system.

Like my daily emails.

I use the same "Nasty Slob Method" I teach inside of Email Goat. Every single day.

That gives me wayyyy more mental bandwidth to do the writing itself.

BUT A WARNING IN THIS ⚠️

A huge mistake I’ve personally made (and see all the time) is killing the long term stuff.

Always keep one long term goal you work on.

No matter how chaotic, nasty, hectic or wild your season presumes to be!

Quick story to explain…

When I was working as a Pastor at a mega church—every season was crazy!

We were launching a new campus. Or a brand new website. Or Easter. Christmas. Small Groups. Mission Trips. Yada yada yada.

All good things BUT….

I was always exhausted and tired and never put a lick of thought into a “long term” project. Something I could really sink my teeth into. Build for the future, ya know?

Well at the time, that for me was writing a book.

I’d always wanted to write a book but punted it off my radar for…

7 YEARS!

I kept saying, “Oh I got big thing happening” or “This is my busy season.”

News Flash—the Devil wants you thinking like that. Always back peddling. Without room to breathe.

It’s when you figure out how to do the LONG TERM thing in the SHORT TERM chaos is when you are forced to build a system, focus and get rid of the crap that’s not moving the needle for you.

Which eventually, I wrote the dayum book in a chaotic season anyway!

It became a #1 best seller and I’m working on the second book right now.

So yes…

Trim the crap off your list, Inject some joy back into your life and pick one long term thing that you can invest say—an hour a day—into building. Something that in 3 years you’ll be happy you didn’t quit.

That something may be building your own online clientless copywriting business.

If so, checkout CopyCreator Club.​

It's the most long term, not sexy, daily grind business you could ever build.

Takes forever (1-3 years is what I estimate for newbies) and you feel like quitting all the time.

But if it were easy, everyone would have a $10K/mo internet business that takes them 2-3 hours a day to run. But they don’t. Cause they kept quitting when things got hard. The ones who are winning now (like El Copy Goat 😉) had to work through the easy and the hard seasons.

Such is life.

If you wanna build something long term, I’d consider reading the letter for CopyCreator Club linked above 👆

Hope this helps!

Your friend,

Alin “Long Term Copy Guy” Dragu