You MUST Decide Who You Are

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

Day 2 of “Write Your Way to $5K” (the coaching program I entered recently) starts in just a few hours, so I’d better get some sleep.

But first, a few things.

It’s becoming clearer and clearer to me that a paid “Accountability/Goals” group on Skool (a community platform) is where I’m going to be taking my business next.

You’ll be invited to join, of course, once I have everything set up. But I haven’t perfectly clarified how everything’s going to work yet.

What I DO know is that it will be a community of smart, driven, invested individuals all moving forward on their goals and dreams, supporting each other, helping each other win.

I’m going to be VERY active in the community as well, so you’ll get direct access to me personally.

Actually, what I’ll probably do is set up a 1-1 call with me for EVERY new member after they join to talk about their goals, the progress they’ve made so far, what they’re struggling with, and how I can help.

As someone who has hit their reading goal of 100+ books/year ten years in a row, I can probably help you.

But I’ll have more details on that later.

For now, look at these two pictures:

The first is a picture of winter car COVERED in snow, and my walkway to my house, where there was snow coming up to my knees that I had to wade through to even get to my car.

The second picture is from the gym tonight. I just got back. Chest day. Accountability details at the bottom of this email.

Look: the snow on my car and up to my knees on my walkway were “stopping me” from getting to the gym. Until…

Until I said “I am a man who goes to the gym no matter what.”

Then I picked up the shovel and the ice scraper (one after the other lol), cleared off my car, and went to the gym f***ing anyway.

This is who I am. 

Who are you?

Because as Carl Jung said - and god I love this quote:

“The world will ask you who you are. And if you don’t know, the world will tell you.”

So I ask again: Who are you?!

Ask yourself this! Come up with a good answer. And DEFEND IT.

But that’s it for today.

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: 11AM (goal is to get back to a 10AM wakeup time)

Sleep Quality: 72% (getting to bed earlier will be key in bringing this up)

Pages Read: 33 (yea I know, I hate myself too lol)

Workout: Chest + Triceps

DB Press - 60lbs, 60lbs, 55lbs, 55lbs - (8 reps, last set to failure)

BB Bench - 140lbs, 140lbs, 135lbs, 135lbs - (6 reps, last set to failure)

DB Incline - 40lbs, 40lbs, 35lbs, 35lbs - (8 reps, last set to failure)

Triceps Pushdown - 58lbs, 58lbs, 58lbs, 58lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)

Rope Extensions - 28lbs, 28lbs, 28lbs, 23lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)

Work Completed:

Worked on Current Author Marketing Campaigns

Posted 1x on Instagram

Posted 4x on Twitter

Posted 1x on Facebook

Posted 1x on LinkedIn

Posted 3x on Threads

Attended the First Call of Write Your Way to $5K

Did Some Author Outreach

Outlined My Upcoming Paid Community

Decently productive day, but nowhere NEAR where I need to be at to reach some of my bigger goals this year.

Honestly, keeping myself accountable to you DOES help though. It helps tremendously.

But I’m headed off to bed now.

Until next time…happy reading!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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