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Extreme Accountability
Matt Karamazov
January 23, 2024
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đź“š Hey, good evening! Time to win.
It’s 5AM right now as I type this, and I don’t want to send this out tonight - I want to sleep - but I have to start something important.
As you may know, The Competitive Advantage is a little bit more…intense than my other newsletters. More goal-driven. Action-oriented.
It’s where I make no apologies for being psychotically obsessed with succeeding in business (and in life) and helping as many of the people who follow me win as well.
Because the game of business is a lot more fun when we all win.
With that in mind, I’m going to be sending these emails out daily. If you’d rather not receive daily emails from me, I’d absolutely understand and I’d be sorry to see you go, but this will serve an important purpose.
That purpose is to put in place extreme accountability.
Basically, I want to show you that I am exactly who I say I am, and that I’m working as hard to make my Ultimate Vision a reality as I’m always encouraging you to work.
So every night, I’m going to send out an email detailing what I did during the last 24 hours to move my business forward, and I’m also still going to be sharing the same strategies and advice that I’ve been sharing in this newsletter all along.
The Competitive Advantage is still going to be about YOU, and helping YOU win, but I’m just going to be adding this accountability device to the end of my emails.
And sending them out nightly.
It being 5:16AM now, I’m going to stop talking and tell you what I did during the last 24 hours to make my Ultimate Vision a reality.
Here also is the latest video uploaded to my YouTube channel:
At the bottom of this email is everything I accomplished today…
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Woke Up: Around 12 noon (very late for me, not too happy about it)
Sleep Quality: 100% (not sure I trust this reading though)
Pages Read: 51 (shamefully low for me)
Workout: Chest and Triceps (feeling better after my hernia surgery)
DB Bench Press - 60lbs, 60lbs, 55lbs, 55lbs - (8 reps, last set to failure)
BB Bench Press - 135lbs, 135lbs, 125lbs, 115lbs - (6 reps, last set to failure)
DB Decline - 40lbs, 35lbs, 30lbs, 30lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)
Triceps Pushdowns - 53lbs, 53lbs, 53lbs, 53lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)
Rope Extension - 28lbs, 28lbs, 23lbs, 23lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)
Work Completed:
Scripted Next YouTube Video
Sent Reading Life Newsletter
Worked on Current Author Campaign
Performed Some Personal Coaching Work
Published 1 Medium Article
Worked on 2 Other Medium Articles
Organized My Content Calendar and Workflow
Posted 2x on Instagram
Posted 3x on Twitter
Posted 1x on Threads
Posted 2x on LinkedIn
Posted 2x on Facebook
Posted 1x on YouTube Community Tab
And that’s just about it. It was a decently productive day, but I NEED to step it up if I want to hit my Jan/Feb objectives.
I mean, I’m updating Time Mastery, I’ve got my new podcast coming out, articles I want to write, my goal of reading 200 books this year, all my workouts, YouTube videos, book breakdowns…
Yea, it’s a lot. No wonder I know so much about time management! I HAD to figure this stuff out if I wanted to perform at a high level consistently.
Which I CAN’T do if I don’t get some sleep, so I’m going to sign off now. Thanks for reading, I hope it inspired you a bit, and I’ll keep these coming as we hit our goals together.
Until next time…happy reading!
All the best,
Matt Karamazov
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