Default to Massive ACTION

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

I haven’t made a secret of the fact that this past year has been pretty dark.

In many ways it’s also been a fantastic year - so I don’t want you to think that it was all doom and gloom.

But there were periods, man, when there were things that didn’t make sense, my immediate future was uncertain, I had been taking some pretty heavy financial hits…

It all added up to being, well, not a whole lot of fun. But through it all, I always kept coming back to the necessity of taking massive action.

Sitting still hardly ever saves anybody.

No, when you’re going through some shit, you have to keep moving! You have to go THROUGH it - it’s all right there in the wording of the phrase.

Who was it, Churchill? I think it was Winston Churchill who said that if you’re going through hell, keep going.

Good advice!

The bottom line is that taking my salvation into my own hands was always the right decision. And the busier I got, the more action I took to overcome my current situation, the brighter that light at the end of the tunnel got.

Within My Direct Control:

Read 20 Books | 19 Books Left

Publish 15 New Time Mastery Videos | 15 Videos Left

Publish 27 YouTube Videos | 25 Videos Left

Publish 135 Medium Articles | 134 Articles Left

Completely Update My Social Media | 7 Platforms Left

Completely Update My Patreon Page | Incomplete

Completely Update My Newsletter Platforms | Incomplete

Completely Update My Email Welcome Sequence | Incomplete

Launch Affiliate Program for My Paid Community | Incomplete

Update 15 Patreon Book Notes | 15 Book Notes Left

Introduce Myself to 810 Authors | 802 Authors Left

Not Within My Direct Control:

Get Monetized on YouTube | 3,705 Watch Hours Left

Negotiate 12 Newsletter Partnerships | 12 Partnerships Left

Organize 12 Instagram Collaborations | 12 Collaborations Left

Reach 110,000 Instagram Followers | 2,643 Followers Left

Reach 20,000 Threads Followers | 5,200 Followers Left

Reach 9,000 X Followers | 1,409 Followers Left

Reach 3,000 Medium Followers | 1,143 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 Facebook Followers | 763 Followers Left

Reach 1,000 LinkedIn Followers | 344 Followers Left

Reach 5,000 YouTube Subscribers | 3,743 Subscribers Left

Reach 5,000 Reading Life Subscribers | 1,366 Subscribers Left

Reach 1,000 Competitive Advantage Subscribers | 548 Subscribers Left

Reach 50 Competitive Advantage Members | 11 Members Left

Reach 30 Patreon Supporters | 10 Supporters Left

Fill 8 Author Promo Slots Until End of June | 8 Slots Left

Fill 3 Open Business Coaching Spots | 3 Spots 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.

Woke Up: 2:00PM

Sleep Quality: 70%

Pages Read: 56

Workout: Rest Day

Work Completed:

Posted 2x on Instagram

Posted 3x on Twitter

Posted 3x on Threads

Posted 2x on Facebook

Posted 2x on LinkedIn

Published 1 YouTube Video Short

Worked on Updating Backend Pages of My Website

Worked on My Email Welcome Sequence and Marketing Funnel

Completely Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow

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This was a pretty encouraging day! Just lots of great things coming together - I’m really proud of myself for not giving up. Not that I’ve ever seriously considered it, but yea…rough year.

But if you’ve been following me for any length of time, you know that I REFUSE to be unhappy or to give in to pessimism or despair.

No matter what happens, I just keep moving forward. And I make sure to ENJOY what there is each day to BE enjoyed.

If you’re paying attention, wonderful things happen to you each and every day. And I try never to lose sight of that.

Anyway, it’s 4:30AM here so I’m going to bed. Have a great day, and I’ll see you tomorrow!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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