Happy New Year! 📚🎉

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📚 Hey, happy new year!

It’s Day Two of 2024, and I damn sure hope you’ve kept the promises you made to yourself on December 31st.

AND that you’ve followed up on all the hard work you did yesterday.

It’s important to build momentum going into the new year - and to keep it up - but it’s also important to realize that you’re not just going to “magically” turn into the most insanely disciplined version of yourself just because some clock struck midnight.

The date has nothing to do with your level of discipline.

There are a lot of midnights left in 2024, and your job - if you’re serious about squeezing the life out of this new year - is to make sure that each new day sees you laying down evidence of that new, supremely motivated, disciplined, and effective version of you.

It’s not just going to “happen.”

But it CAN happen. It just takes time, and consistency, and REAL EFFORT, which is the true, time-tested answer that most people just don’t want to hear.

Listen: I could make a WHOLE lot more money and have a WHOLE lot more influence (even more than I already have) by telling people what they want to hear. But that’s not my style.

I’m here to bring that higher version of yourself out of you, into the light of day, and to do that, we need to ruthlessly honest with each other.

The ONE PERSON who you must never, EVER lie to though is YOURSELF. 

It all comes back to offering easy answers.

People love them. They eat them right up.

But usually, the hardest option is going to be the best. It’s the one that’s going to bring the greatest results.

It’s the difficult path, the hard conversations you have with yourself, and the honest answers, rather than the easy, ineffective ones.

Personally, I made a ton of insane progress this year.

I gained something like 75,000+ followers across my social platforms (2x my following in 2022), read 103 books, left my job to become a full-time creator, networked with other big creators, forged alliances, and set myself up for a killer 2024.

It was all intentional, and it was all the result of taking the hard way forward instead of the easy way out.

I won’t go on and on, but I just feel as though we all have the very special, rare opportunity to do something spectacular with this year, and I for one am NOT going to waste it.

Not a day, not an hour, not a single minute.

I worked 12 hours today (so far) and I’m still not done. I’ve got new YouTube videos in the works, I’m onboarding a few new coaching clients, getting ready for the soft launch of The Winners Circle (more on that in a future newsletter), updating Time Mastery and making that as amazing as it can be, writing book breakdowns, reading tons of books, lifting heavy weight at the gym…

Just on…and on…and on…

I worked 15 hours on New Year’s Day! And am I complaining?

Hell no! I LOVED it. I made astounding PROGRESS while everyone else was hung over from their yacht parties.

Nothing against yacht parties, believe me, but I’m not fucking around this year.

Succeeding in 2024 is going to require an INSANE level of focus and discipline that you may be uncomfortable with…

But you can develop it.

You can make progress. You can get better.

And I’m right here with you.

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I’d say that’s enough for right now, but I will pass along a list of the best books I read in 2023 if you’re interested, and we’ll talk really soon.

Make today count. Work hard. Drive. And try to enjoy it, because tomorrow’s never guaranteed.

Until next time…happy reading!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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