I Can't Believe I Heard This Today

YOUTUBE 📚 THE READING LIFE 📚 PATREON

📚 Hey! Time to win.

There are just a little more than FOUR months until the end of 2024.

When I heard that today, my entire internal clock shifted. I developed this URGENCY that hasn’t left me since, and I don’t think it’ll leave me tomorrow, either.

Four months. That’s it.

Okay, fine, four and a half.

Still, the year is more than HALF over and I don’t know about you, but I’m not ready to ease up. I’m not going to be coasting until the end of the year, and hell, I mean people are acting like it’s February or something.

Like they have all the time in the universe.

You may know by now that I think there’s more to life than work and making money. If your August plans include a few beach days and some barbeques with friends, I’m not going to sit here and tell you that you should be “grinding” instead.

But you have to ask yourself…

Is four months enough time?

Do I have any time to waste?

Am I doing enough???

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Within My Direct Control:

Read 20 Books | 19 Books Left

Publish 8 New Time Mastery Videos | 8 Videos Left

Publish 31 YouTube Videos | 28 Videos Left

Publish 155 Medium Articles | 152 Articles Left

Completely Update My Social Media | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Patreon Page | Incomplete

Completely Update My Newsletter Platforms | Incomplete

Launch Affiliate Program for My Paid Community | Incomplete

Update 30 Patreon Book Notes | 30 Book Notes Left

Network with 500 New Authors | 493 Authors Left

Not Within My Direct Control:

Get Monetized on YouTube | 3,539 Watch Hours Left (11.48% Complete)

Negotiate 12 Newsletter Partnerships | 11 Partnerships Left

Organize 12 Instagram Collaborations | 11 Collaborations Left

Reach 118,000 Instagram Followers | 5,281 Followers Left

Reach 23,000 Threads Followers | 5,000 Followers Left

Reach 10,000 Twitter Followers | 2,300 Followers Left

Reach 4,000 Medium Followers | 2,071 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 Facebook Followers | 707 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 LinkedIn Followers | 1,241 Followers Left

Reach 10,000 YouTube Subscribers | 8,564 Subscribers Left

Reach 10,000 Reading Life Subscribers | 5,729 Subscribers Left

Reach 1,000 Competitive Advantage Subscribers | 466 Subscribers Left

Reach 50 Competitive Advantage Members | 12 Members Left

Reach 50 Patreon Supporters | 20 Supporters Left

Note: I’ll update follower counts once per week, since it’s such a waste of time to go through all of them every single night. Also, Threads annoyingly doesn’t give exact numbers. Oh well.

Read 7 Books | 6 Books Left

Publish 2 New Time Mastery Videos | 2 Videos Left

Publish 10 YouTube Videos | 7 Videos Left

Publish 50 Medium Articles | 47 Articles Left

Record VSL for Skool Community | Recording Soon

Upload Skool Community Testimonials | Gathering Now

Upload All Old Podcast Episodes | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Facebook Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My LinkedIn Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Updated My Twitter Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Threads Profile | COMPLETE ✅

Completely Update My Instagram Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My YouTube Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Medium Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Reading List Page | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Now Page | Incomplete

Completely Update My Website | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Newsletter | Incomplete

Completely Update My Patreon | Almost Finished

Update 10 Patreon Book Notes | 10 Book Notes Left

Network with 150 Authors | 143 Authors Left

Note: “Week One” Runs From August 1st-10th

Woke Up: 1:00PM

Sleep Quality: 80%

Pages Read: 75

Workout: Home Leg Workout

I honestly didn’t do much here. But I had to do SOMETHING, because I spent most of the day sitting down editing YouTube videos and writing my newsletter. It was better than nothing, but I’ll go to the ACTUAL gym tomorrow for a real workout.

Work Completed:

Posted 1x on Instagram

Posted 5x on Twitter

Posted 4x on Threads

Posted 3x on Facebook

Posted 2x on LinkedIn

Posted 2x to YouTube Community Tab

Published 1 New YouTube Video

Sent The Reading Life Newsletter

Worked on Updating 3 Book Notes

Worked on Updating My Various Platforms

Managed Paid Competitive Advantage Community

Completely Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow

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Alright, well today was good, but tomorrow needs to be better. I’m actually pleased with how the YouTube video and newsletter turned out, but it took way longer to publish them than I wanted, and I didn’t get to many of the other things I needed to do, and I didn’t do as much reading as I would have liked.

But hey, it’s 4:56AM here right now and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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