Business is Hard Enough. Don't Do It Without Friends.

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

Long day, short email.

This one’s about how having friends - a support network - in business is so clutch when it comes to making everything work.

I told you yesterday about how I joined that online business accelerator, and starting on the 29th, I’ll be having at least an hour a day of discussions and virtual meetups with a bunch of creators doing $20k, $30k, some of them $50k/month and up in their businesses.

I’ll be learning from all of them, and there are definitely a few guest presenters I had never heard of.

But there’s something I found interesting.

It’s that 9 out of the 20 or so creators “teaching” these accelerator masterclasses were either friends of mine, new acquaintances, people I’ve met and bounced ideas off of before…

It just struck me how much easier and more fun business can be when you don’t have to go it alone.

To be clear, I am nowhere NEAR their level. Yet.

I’d have to check, but I don’t think I’ve had my first $5k month yet.

But I keep working, I haven’t burned out, and I haven’t lost faith, and a big part of that is having that support network in place, knowing that I don’t have to do it all by myself.

I guess what I’m saying is this:

There are people out there who want to help us reach our goals, and maybe business doesn’t ever technically get any easier, but when you have friends supporting you, it certainly feels easier, and that’s something.

But that’s it for today.

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: 10:30AM (sleep is all over the place)

Sleep Quality: 76% (up 6% from last night but still)

Pages Read: 45 (plus some reading for work)

Workout: Shoulders

DB Press - 45lbs, 45lbs, 40lbs, 40lbs - (8 reps, last set to failure)

DB Front Raises - 25lbs, 25lbs, 23lbs, 23lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)

DB Lateral Raise - 23lbs, 20lbs, 18lbs, 18lbs - (12 reps, drop-set on the last set)

DB Rear Delt - 23lbs, 20lbs, 20lbs, 18lbs - (12 reps, drop-set on the last set)

Work Completed:

Worked on Updating Patreon Book Notes

Worked on Current Author Marketing Campaigns

Worked on Next Book Breakdown

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I don’t love what I achieved today, and I think - I KNOW - that a lot of it has to do with sleep. I mean, I wasn’t lazy or anything, but I wasn’t nearly as crisp mentally as I usually am when I get 8 hours. Even tonight I’ll get like…7 hours. Not ideal, but better than last night, and better than the night before.

What it really means though is that I have to race to catch up on things this week and next, which I always hate doing. Creative work is fun, but rushing isn’t.

As always, will try to do better. Keeping myself accountable to you every day in these emails does actually help though.

Until next time…happy reading!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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