What Happened to Mindset Training?

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

There are too many people out there right now giving “mindset” a bad name.

You know who they are; you’ve seen them.

They’re the “manifesting” coaches with no real-world results telling you to just “visualize” your dream life and that it’ll be “on its way to you” or some shit.

Or the people telling you to “think rich thoughts” and you’ll be “magnetic to money” or whatever.

Which, I mean hey, they’re not necessarily wrong in principle.

But because they have nothing else to teach besides mindset - because they have no other credibility besides being persuasive - people see through their shit fairly easily, but then come to the mistaken conclusion that mindset is all fake, or at least not very important.

No! That’s the wrong takeaway!

Yes, reject the easy answers and the wish fulfillment stuff, but mindset? Mindset is sooo damn important. It’s foundational. It’s key.

You’re not going to be able to hold onto any kind of success for any length of time without a rock-solid mindset, and elite-level mental mastery.

It’s true: people who teach mindset teach mindset because they don’t have anything practical to teach. But…

To throw out the entire idea of positive self-belief, visualization, uplifting self-talk, neutral thinking - all these things and more. That’s a mistake.

The power of mindset is real. It’s not only real, it’s CRITICAL to your success. Don’t let these fake gurus give it a bad name.

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: 72%

Pages Read: 72

Workout: Shoulders

DB Press - 55lbs, 50lbs, 50lbs, 45lbs (8 reps, last set to failure)

DB Front Raise - 30lbs, 25lbs, 25lbs, 25lbs (12 reps, last set to failure)

DB Rear Raise - 30lbs, 30lbs, 25lbs, 25lbs (12 reps, last set to failure)

DB Meadows - 10lbs, 10lbs, 8lbs, 8lbs (8 reps, last set to failure)

Again: I don’t actually know what to call those last things. I heard about them from this YouTuber named John Meadows, and you basically perform six movements with a very light weight (I literally started with 10lbs) and all six movements (side, forward, up, down, side, down) count as just one rep. They’re a real killer! Perfect for finishing off a good shoulder workout. I’m going to keep calling them DB Meadows from now on :)

Work Completed:

Posted 1x on Instagram

Posted 3x on Twitter

Posted 3x on Threads

Posted 1x on LinkedIn

Posted 1x on Facebook

Posted 1x to YouTube Community Tab

Performed New Author Marketing Outreach

Worked on Current Author/Client Projects

Scripted Some New YouTube Videos

Outlined Content Strategy for April/May

Today was one of those days (thankfully, appearing quite often now) that had me super optimistic about the future and where everything is heading. Not just in my own business, but for the people who follow me and work with me, and people in general.

There’s a lot of negative shit out flying around out there, but the people who are seeing clearly also see MASSIVE amounts of opportunity out there too. For all of us. Maybe I’m just an overly optimistic person haha. I just believe that the future of humanity is going to be GREAT, and I’m going to keep doing what I can to help people thrive.

Maybe that sounds a little lame haha. But I stand by it! It’s what I believe. It’s what I’m about. I want the best for people, and I believe that if we work hard, stick together, and help each other out, we can make some great things happen.

But that’s it for today.

Until next time…happy reading!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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