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My Monthly Review Framework (Try It Out for Yourself!)
Matt Karamazov
June 02, 2026
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🏅 Welcome Back to The Wealthy Creator!
I just completed my Monthly Review for May, 2026.
There were a tremendous number of things that went right this month, and when you zoom out, you can see that more clearly.
You lift yourself above all the day-to-day fires (and on some days, infernos) and you can see the good things that are happening that aren’t immediately obvious from your daily perspective.
I've been keeping in mind some wise words from Mitesh Jani, author of The Process: The Six Mechanics of Achievement:
"Don't trust, the process. TRACK the process."
I'm a tracker. That's who I am. I mean, I've been keeping detailed notes from every single book I've read since 2014 (getting close to 1,500 books now!).
So tracking comes naturally to me, but I've always found it tremendously useful!
In my Monthly Review, I track a few things:
*Life and Business Satisfaction Scores
*Life and Business Simplification Scores
*My Current Key Business Constraint
*My #1 Priority for the Next Month
*Things That Went Really Well
*Things That Maybe Didn't Go So Well
*Things to Keep Doing
*Things to Stop Doing
*Things to Maybe Try in the Future
It doesn't take me long, but I've gained TREMENDOUS clarity by doing a Monthly Review.
There's a bit more that goes into mine, and yours will naturally look a bit different, but I highly recommend doing one yourself! I can also recommend Jani’s book, The Process.
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After achieving my (somewhat meaningless) goal of reading 1,000 books before I turned 30, I set a new (also meaningless but cool) goal of reading 10,000 books. As of today, I’ve read exactly 1,496 books, including 42 books so far this year, and if you’re interested, here’s my full Reading List.
It's Monday. Every department already has context. Nobody prepped anything.
Your CFO opens Slack. There's a weekly Stripe revenue recap in #finance with a churned-accounts flag and a net-new breakdown. She didn't ask for it.
Your head of product opens Slack. There's a GitHub summary in private channel: PRs merged, PRs stale, Linear tickets that moved. He didn't ask for it.
Your marketing lead opens Slack. There's a Google Ads performance comparison in private channel, with a note: "Meta CPA crept up 18% this week. Might be worth pausing the broad match campaign." She didn't ask for it either.
All-hands at 10am. Everyone already knows the numbers. The meeting is about decisions, not catch-up.
That's what happens when one colleague works across every tool your company uses. Not one department's assistant. The whole company's coworker.
Viktor lives in Slack. Top 5 on Product Hunt, 130 comments. SOC 2 certified. Your data never trains models.
"Not only have we caught up on several months of work, we are automating manual tasks and expanding our operations to things previously not possible at scale." - Jesse Guarino, Director, Torque King 4x4
*Buy My New Lamborghini Gallardo | EXTENDED PURCHASE DATE TO AUGUST
*Upload 200 Wealthy Creator Course Videos | 200 LEFT
*Publish 225 New YouTube Videos | 211 LEFT
*Hit Monetization Hours on YouTube | 2,404 LEFT
*Reach 500,000 Instagram Followers | 375,855 LEFT
*Reach 200,000 Threads Followers | 174,656 LEFT
*Reach 200,000 Twitter Followers | 190,670 LEFT
*Reach 50,000 LinkedIn Followers | 47,653 LEFT
*Reach 50,000 Facebook Followers | 46,662 LEFT
*Reach 50,000 Medium Followers | 46,644 LEFT
*Reach 250,000 Reading Life Subscribers | 234,800 LEFT
*Reach 250,000 YouTube Subscribers | 246,040 LEFT
*Reach 50,000 Wealthy Creator Subscribers | 48,529 LEFT
*Reach 500 Skool Community Members | 447 LEFT
*Reach 500 Premium Reading Life Members | 460 LEFT
*Reach 500 Patreon Community Supporters | 459 LEFT
(The Audience Growth Numbers Are Tallied Weekly)
*Finish Reading 20 Books | 19 LEFT
*Publish 13 Reading Life Newsletters | 12 LEFT
*Publish 75 Medium Articles | 74 LEFT
*Publish 22 YouTube Videos | 22 LEFT
*Publish 12 New Course Videos | 12 LEFT
*Publish Skool About VSL | INCOMPLETE
*Update Author Marketing Page | INCOMPLETE
*Update My Instagram Profile | INCOMPLETE
*Update My Resources Page | INCOMPLETE
*Update My YouTube Channel | INCOMPLETE
*Update My Welcome Sequence | INCOMPLETE
*Update 30 New Patreon Book Notes | 30 LEFT
*Organize My YouTube Studio | INCOMPLETE
*Set Up My ChatGPT Ads Campaign | INCOMPLETE
*Outline 28 Medium Articles | 26 LEFT
*Publish 17 Medium Articles | 16 LEFT
*Publish 3 Reading Life Newsletters | 2 LEFT
*Publish 3 Wealthy Creator Videos | 3 LEFT
*Publish 3 YouTube Videos | 3 LEFT
*Record 10 YouTube Videos | 10 LEFT
*Script 13 YouTube Videos | 10 LEFT
DATE RANGE: June 1st—7th
Woke Up: 9:00AM
Sleep Quality: 83%
Pages Read: 195
Workout: Rest Day
Work Completed:
Posted 1x on Instagram
Posted 4x on Twitter
Posted 4x on Threads
Posted 4x on LinkedIn
Posted 4x on Facebook
Worked on Writing 6 Classics Introductions
Worked on The Reading Life Newsletter
Worked on Creating Sponsorship Deliverables
Worked on Current Author Campaigns
Managed Wealth Creators Community on Skool
Completely Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow
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I thought LAST month was crazy - damn. I have sooo much going on this month it’s insane. Mostly good stuff (though I have some pretty heavy deadlines bearing down on me), but this is going to be a MASSIVE month for my business.
The focus for the next few days and weeks is getting those first four classic novel Introductions written, and then the final two, and that’s a TON of work. But at the end of it I’ll have my name on the front of a published book! And gotten paid to read books all day. So that’s pretty cool!
Anyway, I’m going to get to bed. Thanks for being here, and we’ll talk soon!
All the best,
Matt Karamazov
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