I'm All Set Up to SMASH My June Goals

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

I started off STRONG in June so far. I hope you did as well.

And as much as “new beginnings” can be a great way to build excitement for making a big change, don’t beat yourself up if June 1st wasn’t everything you wanted it to be.

It’s a long month, and we have to pace ourselves.

But like I said, I started off strong with a VERY productive day, and I’m setting myself up for a great day tomorrow too.

What we want to do is stack up wins, build momentum, and then let that carry us forward.

If we can do that enough months in a row, we can win. No matter what we’re chasing.

I set my June goals today, and if you’ve been following me for a while you’ll notice a few changes.

Nothing worth dwelling on, it’s just that I reduced a few targets (choosing to update 8 videos of my course this month instead of 15), and increased a few more (I think I can get my main newsletter, The Reading Life, to 10K subscribers this month, whereas my previous goal was “only” 5K).

The reason for my optimism (one of the reasons anyway) is that once I get my welcome sequence set up and a few other backend things optimized, I’m turning the paid ads funnel back on and going HARD on newsletter growth.

In future emails I’ll break down exactly why, share some numbers, etc., but my newsletter is - and will continue to be - such a big revenue driver for me that I really want to push it as far as it will go this month.

I also feel confident because I’m dialing in my SLEEP, which has been a big issue for me these past few months.

I have a habit of getting so excited about what I’m working on that I stay up until odd hours and ruin my effectiveness for the next day.

That doesn’t happen this month.

I’m not going to let it.

So that’s a little bit of what’s going on this month, and in future emails I’ll break down each goal into further detail and fill you in on my actual PLAN for achieving them.

If you have similar goals of building a strong personal brand online (which is the purpose of this newsletter, after all, to help you do that), then my breakdowns should be extremely helpful for you.

I’ll show you exactly what I’m doing, why I’m doing it, what I tried before that didn’t work, and what I’m going to do after that.

Truthfully, this is one of the first months or so that I’ve felt QUALIFIED to do that.

I mean, it wasn’t too long ago that I was making FAR less than $5K per month as a creator.

But now that I’ve “broken through” and have developed a repeatable system that works, I look forward to sharing it with you over the coming weeks, months, and years!

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Within My Direct Control:

Read 20 Books | 20 Books Left

Publish 8 New Time Mastery Videos | 8 Videos Left

Publish 29 YouTube Videos | 29 Videos Left

Publish 150 Medium Articles | 150 Articles Left

Completely Update My Social Media | Incomplete

Completely Update My Patreon Page | Incomplete

Completely Update My Newsletter Platforms | Incomplete

Completely Update My Email Welcome Sequence | Incomplete

Launch Affiliate Program for My Paid Community | Incomplete

Update 20 Patreon Book Notes | 20 Book Notes Left

Introduce Myself to 600 Authors | 600 Authors Left

Not Within My Direct Control:

Get Monetized on YouTube | 3,660 Watch Hours Left

Negotiate 12 Newsletter Partnerships | 12 Partnerships Left

Organize 12 Instagram Collaborations | 12 Collaborations Left

Reach 115,000 Instagram Followers | 6,013 Followers Left

Reach 20,000 Threads Followers | 4,400 Followers Left

Reach 10,000 X Followers | 2,383 Followers Left

Reach 3,000 Medium Followers | 1,126 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 Facebook Followers | 759 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 LinkedIn Followers | 1,306 Followers Left

Reach 10,000 YouTube Subscribers | 8,705 Subscribers Left

Reach 10,000 Reading Life Subscribers | 6,304 Subscribers Left

Reach 1,000 Competitive Advantage Subscribers | 524 Subscribers Left

Reach 50 Competitive Advantage Members | 10 Members Left

Reach 40 Patreon Supporters | 16 Supporters 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.

Read 5 Books | 5 Books Left

Publish 2 New Time Mastery Videos | 2 Videos Left

Publish 7 YouTube Videos | 7 Videos Left

Publish 35 Medium Articles | 35 Articles Left

Completely Update My Facebook Profile | Incomplete

Completely Update My LinkedIn Profile | Incomplete

Completely Update My Threads Profile | Incomplete

Completely Update My Medium Profile | Incomplete

Completely Update My Email Welcome Sequence | Incomplete

Update 10 Patreon Book Notes | 10 Book Notes Left

Introduce Myself to 140 Authors | 140 Authors Left

Woke Up: 12:00PM

Sleep Quality: 90%

Pages Read: 75

Workout: Rest Day

Work Completed:

Posted 2x on Instagram

Posted 1x on Facebook

Posted 1x on LinkedIn

Posted 5x on Twitter

Posted 3x on Threads

Posted 1x to YouTube Community Tab

Worked on My Next YouTube Video

Worked on My Email Welcome Sequence and Marketing Funnel

Managed My Skool Community and Replied to Messages

Completely Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow

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I think I said pretty much everything in the main body of this email. I went pretty long, so I’ll keep things short here.

Great day, super productive and fun…EXCITING. I felt GOOD about today.

Things are headed in the right direction, results are coming fast because I’m putting in the smart, hard work, and yea. Things are good.

But hey, it’s 4:10AM here right now and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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