Invest in the S&ME 500, Not the S&P 500

YOUTUBE  📚 THE READING LIFE  📚  PATREON

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

No matter what the stock market or Bitcoin is doing, I will ALWAYS invest in myself.

Heavily. Consistently. Relentlessly.

Call it the "S&ME 500" - a term I got from Alex Hormozi.

For example, tonight I bought:

3 Books - $60

Green Screen - $30

New Lighting Setup - $60

Advanced Viral Editing Course - $100

Tomorrow I'm joining a new content creation accelerator ($500) and I actually just finished going through a different writing summit/accelerator hosted by my friend Ayodeji Awosika ($500)

This is on top of spending thousands of dollars on books and coaches each and every year.

To me, the choice is simple:

Invest $1,000 into the stock market and end up with just $1,090 at the end of the year

OR

Invest $1,000 into the S&ME 500 and build the SKILLS to earn $10,000+ per month 

You don't build wealth earning 9% interest on $1,000 at a time.

You build wealth by increasing your income dramatically, and investing that for the long term.

And for the record, I’m not against investing in the stock market. Far from it.

I think (rather, I KNOW) that it’s a fantastic wealth-creation vehicle with real power to move some BIG money into your life…over a 40+ year timespan.

But think about it.

I mean, forty years from now you’ll be…considerably older. Obviously haha. And of course I hope you’re still in good health by that time, but many people aren’t.

Not when they get up into their eighties and nineties.

Which is when all that “wealth” is supposed to have been created in the stock market after a lifetime of skipping lattes and other things you love.

The math isn’t mathing.

No, you need to earn money FASTER, while you still have the health and vitality to enjoy it.

As my mentor and friend M.J. DeMarco says, wheelchairs don’t fit inside the trunks of Lamborghinis.

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: 69%

Pages Read: 35

Workout: OFF DAY

This was supposed to be arm day, but I’m listening to my body here and turning in early. I am EXHAUSTED, and I knew that if I went to the gym tonight I wouldn’t get home until very late, then I’d have to write and send this email, do a bunch of prep for tomorrow, etc.

And then I’d be in an even worse position tomorrow.

So I’m making the smart decision and skipping the gym…for only the 3rd time this year. Sure, I mean it’s only March, but I’ve been nearly perfect in getting all my workouts in.

I always preach “95% compliance” and I think that’s a reasonable, even excellent expectation for most people. 100% compliance would be great, but things happen, and you can’t be too rigid or else you’ll make dumb decisions…like staying up til 5am instead of going to bed when you’re body and mind really need it.

Work Completed:

Worked on My Next YouTube Video

Studied Online Video Editing Course

Posted 2x on Twitter

Posted 2x on Threads

Batch Created Social Media Content

Attended Writing Summit Workshop

My productivity dipped today, but it was a pretty good professional development day, and it was also just…fun.

I spent quite a bit of time with family, bought that video editing course and dove into it, posted a BIT, worked on my next video and stuff, but didn’t generate a tremendous amount of output.

I’m going to bed way earlier tonight though, and I’m NOT setting an alarm for tomorrow (perks of being the boss and working from home), so even though I’ll wake up a bit later, I’ll be a LOT more rested, and ready to hit Saturday pretty hard.

So until next time…happy reading!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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