I Was Flying a Jet with Just ONE Working Engine

YOUTUBE  📚 THE READING LIFE  📚  PATREON

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

The above quote is from The Answer, by John Assaraf and Murray Smith, the next featured book at The Stairway to Wisdom.

That’s the book breakdown I’m writing now.

But imagine that:

“Your potential to achieve what you want is essentially without limit."

It seems like we’re so limited, though, right?

To me, what that says is that most people - including me sometimes - literally have no idea how powerful the human brain actually is, or that we can tap into its power at almost literally any time.

Reminds me of one of my favorite philosophers, Colin Wilson, who said that human beings were like great big jet airplanes, flying on just one engine.

So much personal power available to each and every one of us that we’re just not using…but what if we did?

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: 1PM (still not great, getting back to a decent wakeup time though)

Sleep Quality: 91% (decent!)

Pages Read: 53 (honestly not great numbers, but January has been wild)

Workout: Triceps + Biceps

Triceps Pushdown - 58lbs, 58lbs, 58lbs, 58lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)

Skull Crushers - 50lbs, 50lbs, 50lbs, 50lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)

DB Triceps Press - 40lbs, 40lbs, 40lbs, 40lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)

DB Curls - 35lbs, 35lbs, 30lbs, 30lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)

(I uncharacteristically cut my workout short when I realized it was almost 4AM and I’d be screwing myself over for tomorrow if I stayed there any longer!)

Work Completed:

Worked on Current Author Marketing Campaigns

Worked on Next Book Breakdown

Worked on My Strategy with My Social Media Coach

Posted 1x on Instagram

Posted 3x on Twitter

Posted 1x on Facebook

Posted 1x on LinkedIn

Posted 1x on Threads

You’re seeing me at my worst here, and I really haven’t had a “Super Productive” day since I started sending these accountability emails. I mean, I’m completing a decent amount of work, but I’m falling behind on a lot (like responding to emails!)

All this is to say I’ll have to take a step back and see what I can change for this coming week. Making sleep a priority again is going to be a BIG part of my plan though.

On the 31st I’m also going to “call my shot” for February, and let you know EXACTLY what I plan on completing, publishing, etc.

That way I will have NO CHOICE but to execute. My plan/goals will be right out there for everyone to see, and if I don’t hit them, you’ll know.

Next month is also the month for the launch of my paid mastermind/community, so you’ll be hearing more about that.

Basically a way for us to work more closely (in a group setting - I’ll probably limit spots to 50 or so) and team up together to hit our targets for February.

Right now, though, I’m going to bed! Talk to you tomorrow.

Until next time…happy reading!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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