How I Conquered FOMO Once and For All

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It’s Saturday night, and in my old life, I’d still be at the bar right now (working), politely making sure the last few customers left for the evening.

But now, a year and a half after I left that job to become a full-time content creator, I’m here at 4AM, doing up an invoice for a book marketing project, prepping my work for tomorrow, touching up some video scripts I’ll be recording for YouTube and elsewhere, and writing this email.

I mention that, not to say how “hardcore” I am for working on Saturday night, but just to highlight how strange it would appear to my former self that this is where I’d rather be.

The truth is, I loved my job at the bar. It was often the highlight of the week! I had sooo much fun there, and there are times I do miss it.

But I wanted this more.

Turns out, I wanted this so much more than my old life that I haven’t even been back to visit my old bar in I don’t even know how long.

I “miss it,” but I also don’t. I thought I’d experience all this major FOMO while my friends were out partying and having a good time, but that’s not how it happened.

It might have been misleading to say that I “conquered” my FOMO, when in reality it wasn’t quite like that. I just turned toward the life I wanted more, and away from the life that was rooting me in the past. The “fun” life that I feared missing out on.

For you, it’s entirely possible (I would even say probable) that there is a much better, bigger life for you, waiting somewhere beyond that idea you have that you’re going to miss out on all these fun times.

Instead, you should fear missing out on that BIGGER life, not the one that’s holding you where you are now.

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Alright, home stretch here in November! We’ve got one week left to make some big things happen! This should be exciting.

As you can see above, I’ve got a TON of work ahead of me, so I honestly won’t even be leaving my house except to go to the gym next week. The rest of the gym, I’ll be staying at home, on the grind.

But hey, it’s 4:28AM here right now and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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