The Guiding Principle of My Life

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

I always get Zig Ziglar and Jim Rohn mixed up.

But one of them said the following words, and it made a huge impression on me as a younger man:

Turn out it was Zig Ziglar. I just Googled it. You’d think with such a memorable name I’d be able to remember he said this.

But truly, those words have never left me, and I’ve built my entire business…no, my entire LIFE on those words.

You can get anything you want in life.

IF.

You help enough OTHER people get what THEY want.

So simple, so profound, so demonstrably true in every field where collaboration is necessary for success - like business.

Instead of looking for ways to take from the world, look for ways you can be of service - ways in which you can give.

It really does come back around.

It’s also just a wonderful, fulfilling, gracious way to go through life.

Speaking of being of service, I’ve never done this before, but bear with me:

I’m going to start offering fitness coaching as part of my 1-1 client work and I’m looking for 5 people who want to take the leap and become my first fitness clients.

If you’re looking to make a big, positive change to your health and fitness and start turning heads wherever you go, let’s work together!

If you follow my program and do exactly what I recommend, you’re going to be able to shed pounds at will, get leaner and stronger, and start commanding attention and respect with your newly-built, impressive physique.

I’m still coaching entrepreneurs and creators on how to grow their business and their personal brand (I’m at $5k/month and growing fast), but this is different.

Currently, I charge $400/week to work with business owners, but since I’m new to fitness coaching, I want to offer it to you for $400 a month instead. Just because I have more experience in business coaching than fitness coaching, so I wanted to charge appropriately.

So, a 75% discount, worth $1,200.

And as part of it, I’ll also give you free access to The Competitive Advantage community for the entire time we work together and an additional year after that.

Membership in the community is $75/month, so on top of the $1,200 discount on personal coaching, you’ll get the $75 membership for free too.

So, for example, if we work together for six months, you’d also get 18 total months of membership in the community, worth $1,350.

If that sounds like something you’d be interested in, just reply to this email and let me know!

I’ve been able to get incredible results for myself, but this is the first time I’ll officially be helping other people get in shape, thus the massive discount.

And now, here’s how my April goals are progressing. I’ll be updating the social media numbers tomorrow, but everything is up to date:

PROGRESS ON APRIL GOALS:

Read 20 Books | 18 Books Left

Publish 12 New Time Mastery Videos | 12 Videos Left

Publish 28 YouTube Videos | 27 Videos Left

Publish 140 Medium Articles | 138 Articles Left

Get Monetized on YouTube | 3,734 Watch Hours Left

Completely Update My Social Media | 7 Platforms Left

Completely Update My Patreon Page | Incomplete

Completely Update My Newsletter Platforms | Incomplete

Completely Update My Welcome Email Sequence | Incomplete

Get Down to Inbox Zero | Embarrassing Number of Emails Left

Negotiate 10 Newsletter Partnerships | 10 Partnerships Left

Do 12 Instagram Collaborations | 12 Collaborations Left

Reach 110,000 Instagram Followers | 5,950 Followers Left

Reach 20,000 Threads Followers | 6,000 Followers Left

Reach 9,000 X Followers | 1,392 Followers Left

Reach 3,000 Medium Followers | 1,167 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 Facebook Followers | 763 Followers Left

Reach 1,000 LinkedIn Followers | 358 Followers Left

Reach 5,000 YouTube Subscribers | 3,818 Subscribers Left

Reach 5,000 Reading Life Subscribers | 1,359 Subscribers Left

Reach 1,000 Competitive Advantage Subscribers | 563 Subscribers Left

Reach 50 Competitive Advantage Members | 15 Members Left

Reach 30 Patreon Supporters | 10 Supporters Left

Update 25 Patreon Book Notes | 18 Book Notes Left

Introduce Myself to 280 Authors | 274 Authors Left

Fill 4 Author Promo Slots for May | 4 Spots Left

Fill 1 Open Business Coaching Spot | 1 Spot Left

Fill 5 Open Fitness Coaching Spots | 5 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.

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: 12:00PM

Sleep Quality: 92%

Pages Read: 45

Workout: Rest Day

I’m taking the next few weeks off from the gym, with the exception of some light cardio and maybe some even lighter weights. That’s the plan: I’ve been pushing myself extremely hard these past few months and have made pretty spectacular gains, and so I’m giving my body (and mind) some extra time to recover and come back bigger and stronger.

Work Completed:

Posted 2x on Instagram

Posted 3x on Twitter

Posted 3x on Threads

Posted 1x on Facebook

Posted 1x on LinkedIn

Introduced Myself to 5 New Potential Author Partners

Worked on Sales Page for The Competitive Advantage

Scripted My Next 2 YouTube Videos

Did Some Competitor Content Research

Managed Competitive Advantage Community

Did Some Backend Organizational Work (Boring)

Exhausting day today - I’m slacking on sleep again, and that needs to change.

But made some decent progress and have renewed confidence that I’ll be able to hit MOST of my April goals. I think “Daily YouTube Uploads” is going to slip away from me, but I might be able to get that back on track. Would certainly like to. In fact, I need to make it more of a priority.

Things are good though, rolling right along, and the future looks bright!

But that’s it for today.

Until next time…happy reading!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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