Goal Setting Tip: "Split Them Into Two"

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

I spent the day setting my professional goals for May (after taking a few days off at the beginning of the month to recharge) and I made a change that you might want to adopt for your own goal-setting practice, assuming you have one.

It’s perfectly okay if you don’t, by the way.

But I’m going to assume that, if you’re signed up to this newsletter, you’ve actually got fairly LARGE goals and you don’t want to waste any time reaching them.

The change I’ve made was simply dividing them between what’s within my direct control and what is not.

For example, one of my goals this month is to get monetized on YouTube, for which I need to accumulate another 3,700 watch hours on my channel. 

But I can’t FORCE anyone to watch my videos (I would if I could haha).

So, “Get Monetized on YouTube” goes under “Not Within My Direct Control.”

What I CAN do, however, is make more videos, and work to improve on the quality of those videos with each and every new upload.

Another goal is to fill up the 3 spots I have left for business coaching.

But again, I can’t directly control whether or not an entrepreneur/creator decides to work with me.

All I can do is, again, put out great work, keep an eye out for leads, reach out to people whom I think I may be able to help, and wait for inbound leads to come in too.

It might help you to approach goals in this way as well.

I know it can do wonders for your mental health, happiness, and overall life satisfaction.

Because the best you can do is, by definition, the best you can do.

We MUST do our best if we want to achieve great things in this world, but we also can’t let external events dictate to us whether we’re winners or not.

Within My Direct Control:

Read 20 Books | 20 Books Left

Publish 15 New Time Mastery Videos | 15 Videos Left

Publish 27 YouTube Videos | 27 Videos Left

Publish 135 Medium Articles | 135 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 | 810 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: 12:00PM

Sleep Quality: 83%

Pages Read: 60

Workout: Rest Day

Work Completed:

Posted 1x on Instagram

Posted 3x on Twitter

Posted 3x on Threads

Posted 2x on Facebook

Posted 1x on LinkedIn

Published 1 YouTube Community Post

Worked on Updating Backend Pages of My Website

Worked on My Email Welcome Sequence and Marketing Funnel

Managed My Paid Community on Skool

Reached Out to 3 New Authors

Recorded My Next YouTube Video

Set My Goals for the Month of May

Completely Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow

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I’m feeling EXTREMELY optimistic about how May is going to go, which is interesting because of how much the end of April simply SUCKED.

But hey, I guess I don’t tend to stay down for very long.

One thing I’m proud of is that I didn’t get too down on myself - and certainly not for long. There were some personal things that were kinda kicking me around the last few days of April, but they couldn’t hold me down.

My optimism and drive remain undefeated.

It’s also strengthened my commitment to help OTHER people win, and I’m convinced that there are more people than ever who need someone to rely on, who wants the best for them, and is willing to extend themselves in a spirit of mutual cooperation.

If the world can’t keep ME down, then it sure as hell won’t be able to keep the BOTH of us down!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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