Did You Earn Your Sleep Tonight?

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

I still remember where I was when I read this fitness book by Joe Manganiello called Evolution.

This was back when I was working 12-hour nights as a minimum wage security guard, before I gained the freedom to work 16-hour days for myself :)

I had seldom read about anyone that dedicated to fitness, that passionate about getting the absolute most out of themselves each and every day.

Just his drive to reach peak physical perfection as it pertained to him and his potential…

I loved the book and it really fired me up. To the point where I still remember reading it all these years later and what it did for me.

I also remember one specific line, where he said that we all need to earn our sleep each night.

Earn our sleep each night.

Wow. Yes. This man gets it.

Look, it’s fine if today was a rest day or a day off or whatever, and you didn’t “earn your sleep” tonight. You get a pass.

Productivity is just doing what you intended to do, and so if it was your intention to get some rest today and take in a movie or something - and you did that - then you were perfectly productive.

But if you had shit to do today and you didn’t do it…

How can you honestly say that you’ve earned your sleep that night? You didn’t do anything. You earned nothing, and part of you knows that.

Your subconscious mind is always paying attention to what you say and do. Don’t break promises to yourself and do not let yourself down. EVER.

And be careful what you say to yourself, because there’s someone in the back of your mind listening to everything you say.

All that being said, if you did earn your sleep tonight, I’m proud of you. Sleep well, and let’s get after it tomorrow too.

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: 11:00AM

Sleep Quality: 75% (meh)

Pages Read: 65 (yep, definitely in a reading slump. Haven’t cracked 100 since I started doing these daily accountability emails.)

Workout: Legs

Leg Extensions - 80lbs, 80lbs, 80lbs, 80lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)

BB Squats - 150lbs, 150lbs, 145lbs, 145lbs - (8 reps, last set to failure)

Leg Press - 205lbs, 205lbs, 205lbs, 205lbs - (8 reps, last set to failure)

Leg Curls - 65lbs, 65lbs, 65lbs, 60lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)

Seated Calf - 75lbs, 75lbs, 75lbs, 75lbs - (20 reps, last set to failure)

Work Completed:

Worked on January 50-Book Giveaway

Work on Updating My Patreon Book Notes

Sent Out Latest Reading Life Email

Posted 1x on Instagram

Posted 4x on Twitter

Posted 2x on Facebook

Posted 2x on LinkedIn

Posted 1x on Threads

Attended the Third Day of Write Your Way to $5K Summit

Worked on Outlining My Upcoming Paid Community

Gained some major clarity today on my business, my overall direction, my next few steps forward, etc.

I’ll have more to say about this in future posts, but online education is becoming HUGE, and I’m going all in. My paid community is going to be a big part of this, my newsletter(s), YouTube, etc. Time to make major moves.

Until next time…happy reading!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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