I've Changed (For Real This Time)

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📚 Hey! Time to win.

Check the time this email was sent. Not 3AM, 5AM, 6AM (what was I thinking?!).

No, 230AM. Atlantic Standard Time.

(It would have been earlier, but I just got with “scheduled website maintenance” haha)

EARLY, by my standards, and I’m reforming my whole approach to sleep, productivity, business, content creation…

What can I say? September is a time of new beginnings!

I’ll always be a bit of a night owl, so I can’t imagine I’ll ever start going to bed earlier than this. I love how empty the gym is at midnight, and that’s when I prefer to train, even though it is a little close to bedtime.

But it’s significant because if you’ve been here for a while, you know that lack of sleep has probably been the biggest thing holding me back in business…with my reading goals…with everything.

As always, we are our own worst enemy.

But YOU can change too, and you don’t have to wait until September 1st, your birthday, New Year’s Eve (hardly anybody actually changes on NYE)…you can start a new course right now.

You can just….decide that whatever’s holding you back right now isn’t going to be an issue for you anymore. Or, at least, that you’ll take concrete, definitive steps towards taking care of it and moving FORWARD.

For me, it was sleep. And it took working with a coach, answering to my accountability group, and facing the shame of writing these emails (admitting that I had fallen short yet again) - it took all these things to get me to start taking sleep more seriously, and to make major changes.

You can start with minor changes, of course. And most people should. But the important thing is to realize that you have the power to change.

You’re going to like the new You.

There are still 11 spots remaining inside The Competitive Advantage community and you can grab one of the last remaining ones here.

If you want my personal help to add between $1-5K/month in monthly recurring revenue to your business, and grow your audience and authority by leaps and bounds at the same time, that’s exactly where you need to be. Join here.

Within My Direct Control:

Finish Reading 20 Great Books | 20 Books Left

Publish 8 New Course Videos | 8 Videos Left

Publish 30 YouTube Videos | 30 Videos Left

Publish 150 Medium Articles | 150 Articles Left

Completely Update My Social Media | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Patreon Page | Incomplete

Completely Update My Newsletter Platforms | Incomplete

Completely Update My Entire Main Website | Incomplete

Launch Affiliate Program for My Paid Community | Incomplete

Update 30 Patreon Book Notes | 30 Book Notes Left

Network with 600 New Authors | 600 Authors Left

Not Within My Direct Control:

Get Monetized on YouTube | 3,484 Watch Hours Left (12.9% Complete)

Negotiate 12 Newsletter Partnerships | 12 Partnerships Left

Organize 12 Instagram Collaborations | 12 Collaborations Left

Reach 119,000 Instagram Followers | 4,843 Followers Left

Reach 24,000 Threads Followers | 4,700 Followers Left

Reach 11,000 Twitter Followers | 3,225 Followers Left

Reach 4,000 Medium Followers | 2,054 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 Facebook Followers | 691 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 LinkedIn Followers | 1,131 Followers Left

Reach 10,000 YouTube Subscribers | 8,476 Subscribers Left

Reach 10,000 Reading Life Subscribers | 5,562 Subscribers Left

Reach 1,000 Competitive Advantage Subscribers | 449 Subscribers Left

Reach 50 Competitive Advantage Members | 11 Members Left

Reach 50 Patreon Supporters | 21 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 New Books | 5 Books Left

Publish 2 New Course Videos | 2 Videos Left

Publish 7 YouTube Videos | 7 Videos Left

Publish 35 Medium Articles | 35 Articles Left

Upload New VSL for Skool Community | Editing Now

Upload Skool Community Testimonials | Gathering Now

Upload All Old Podcast Episodes | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Instagram Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My YouTube Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Website | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Newsletter | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Patreon | Almost Finished

Update 10 Patreon Book Notes | 10 Book Notes Left

Network with 140 Authors | 140 Authors Left

Note: “Week One” Runs From September 1st-7th

Woke Up: 1PM

Sleep Quality: 85%

Pages Read: 65

Workout: Rest Day

Work Completed:

Posted 1x on Instagram

Posted 4x on Twitter

Posted 4x on Threads

Posted 2x on LinkedIn

Posted 2x on Facebook

Outlined 10 Medium Articles

Scripted 7 YouTube Videos

Worked on Updating My Website

Worked on Current Author Campaigns

Worked on Next Book Breakdown

Batched Content for the Next Week

Managed Paid Competitive Advantage Community

Completely Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow

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Alright, we’re into a new month! I feel great about the possibilities - for all of us. I know we’re going to crush it this September, and I want to tell you that I really appreciate you being here.

I know the last half of these emails are almost exclusively about “Me,” but I always try to pass along something helpful in each issue as you go about building your business and strengthening your brand online.

Business is tough as hell, and not everyone succeeds, but keeping myself accountable to you absolutely helps, and I hope that you can take what you learn from me (hopefully it’s a lot!) and pass it along to someone who could really use your help.

But hey, it’s 2:30AM here right now and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

P.S. Whenever you're ready, here are three more ways I can help you:

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