What Are Your Goals for February?

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đź“š Hey, good morning! Time to win.

Today was apparently the first day of February. Man that one snuck up on me “something fierce.”

This might also be the first time I’ve ever used “something fierce” in a sentence - I don’t hate it!

But okay, it being the first of the month, that means it’s time to lay out exactly what you and I want to achieve and/or create this month.

It’s a longer month than usual, too - 29 days. But we can’t afford to waste a single one.

For myself, February is all about simplification and consolidation - building out my business systems, and reining in some of the chaos of January.

Without boring you with a full explanation of all the loose ends I have to tie up if I want to regain the clarity and focus I had last year, here’s what I’m promising you that I will publish/launch/complete by the end of February:

*Fill Out My Newsletter “Welcome” Sequence (the emails that people get right after signing up to, you know…welcome them)

*Launch “The Competitive Advantage Podcast” (this will work great because I can upload author interviews and more to YouTube, increasing my revenue and reach at the same time)

*Launch “The Standard” (The Standard is my paid accountability group on Skool.com, which I’ll be inviting you to join as soon as it’s ready so that the entire community can help each other reach our goals together)

*Update “Time Mastery” with 20 New Videos (Time Mastery is my online course that helps people save 20+ hours a week, and the current plan is to include this within The Standard and give current students enrolled in Time Mastery free access to The Standard for life)

*Outline All My Posts/Content for March

*Publish 1x Weekly Book Breakdown

*Publish 5x Weekly Editions of “The Reading Life”

*Publish 7x Weekly Editions of “The Competitive Advantage”

*Publish 3x Weekly YouTube Videos (by the end of the month, I want to have the systems in place to help me publish one every day, but so far I haven’t been able to get that to work)

*Publish 3x Daily Articles on Medium

*Publish 3x Daily on Instagram

*Publish 8x Daily on Twitter

*Publish 2x Daily on LinkedIn

*Update All My Social Media Profiles

*Update 20 Patreon Book Notes

*Get Back to Inbox Zero

If all this sounds like a lot…

Yeah! That’s exactly the point! To do MORE than everyone else is doing to reach their goals. To move forward with relentless momentum until I take everything I want from this life.

So yeah, it’s going to take some work. A lot of work. Work I’m more than prepared to do.

I’m also extremely knowledgeable about time management :)

That being said, it will certainly be a challenging month, and I’ll have to make a few sacrifices. Odds are, you’ll have to sacrifice a few things you enjoy - at least for a little while - to get what YOU want.

Such is life.

Oh yeah, I’m also going to read 25 books this month.

AND never miss a single workout for the whole month.

What can I say? I’m psychopathically obsessed with achieving my goals, which makes me EXACTLY the kind of person you want fighting for YOU and YOUR overwhelming success in life.

You’re in the right place :)

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: 12:00AM

Sleep Quality: 80% (decent, getting better)

Pages Read: 123 (getting back to form here too!)

Workout: Shoulders

DB Press - 50lbs, 45lbs, 45lbs, 40lbs - (8 reps, last set to failure)

DB Rear Delts - 25lbs, 25lbs, 23lbs, 23lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)

DB Front Raise - 23lbs, 23lbs, 20lbs, 20lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)

DB Lateral Raise - 20lbs, 20lbs, 18lbs, 18lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)

Work Completed:

Worked on Updating My Patreon Book Notes

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

Worked on Outlining My Upcoming Paid Community

Sent an Author Invoice for a Project

Answered Some Emails (still quite a few left to go!)

Worked on the Next Book Breakdown

It was a good day! Part of the difference has been my sleep! As in SLEEPING MORE! My god what a difference to my productivity, energy, and peace.

January was a horrible month for sleep, and I paid for it in lost income, more disorganization, and just needless stress and complexity. That ends today.

So until next time…happy reading!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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