Work The System by Sam Carpenter
Sam Carpenter’s Work The System Book
“The leader’s role is to first see the wheels of the machine, and then to get those wheels turning with maximum efficiency.” – Sam Carpenter
Constantly Feeling Overwhelm, Exhaustion, Lack Of Motivation, Or Even Frustration?
If you are experiencing any of these feelings with your business, chances are that your organization skills, productivity, and efficiency could use some work! I know because I have been there!
A few months back I found myself completely overwhelmed by what I needed to do everyday.
The bad part is, I wasn’t just overwhelmed by what I needed to do to keep my business running, but also I was incredibly overwhelmed by all the opportunities I had to grow my business.
I know, that sounds weird, but in the internet marketing business, there is so much opportunity for growth that sometimes you can even get so overwhelmed just by the thought of deciding what to do next!
Luckily I read Sam Carpenter’s book Work The System! This book really taught me some amazing new skills that I can apply to my business, but what’s great is many of these skills are also very helpful in other areas of your life too!
Systematize And Organize Everything By Folders
Reading the book made it very clear to me that I needed to begin to create my own folder system within the files on my computer so that at any moment I could find a document, image, or anything else within seconds. And more importantly I wanted the process of finding anything to take as little brain power as possible!
Although Sam didn’t give me exact details of how I would accomplish this, he gave me the much needed overall concepts I needed to come up with my own system.
How Exactly Did I Organize My Business And Why?
As I said before I was overwhelmed, I was working on multiple online businesses and trying to grow them all while making it worse and worse as time went on.
You see, the more our businesses grew, the more overwhelmed I got because I had a very poor business structure. It was ok for me to get by when I first started out, but once you get to the point where you are working on multiple products, or projects, it becomes more and more important to have a solid infrastructure for growth.
Here are the basic decisions I made:
- I decided that it was going to be very difficult for Karen and I to both easily work on our business at the same time, and also in different places if we didn’t start organizing our files on Dropbox, instead of one of our computers. This way we can access the files anywhere, and we can also share files with our team.
- I decided that I wanted to organize my folders with as few top name folders as possible. In other words, when I go into Dropbox, I only want to see a couple folders, but if you open those folders you will then see many folders inside those folders, and even more inside those folders, etc..
- I decided that I wanted my system to be organized by products, or projects. For instance, this blog post would have it’s own folder. Inside of the folder it would have different folders for all the elements of this page. It would have a folder for the text document, a folder for the video, folder for the image, etc..
- I decided that I needed to create templates for new products or projects. This way anytime I want to start a new one, I just copy and paste the folder, then rename it.
I’m also experimenting with many more ideas and always trying to increase my organization and efficiency, but those are the main changes I have made to this point, and I think they are the best place to start!
That’s all for now. I hope you guys have enjoyed this video blog post and that you have gotten some value out of it.
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To success beyond your wildest imagination!
– Matt & Karen Hale
