Permanent Failure NEVER Happens

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If you haven’t heard already, my complete breakdown of Feel-Good Productivity, by Ali Abdaal, is finally ready, and you can read the whole thing here for free.

I sent it to my main newsletter subscribers yesterday (The Reading Life) and I’m not sure if you’re subscribed to that, but I went all-out writing that free breakdown for you and didn’t want you to miss it.

I want to talk to you very briefly about failure though.

There’s a book that I highly, highly recommend called The Miracle of a Definite Chief Aim, and I want you to read a quote from the book below.

Permanent failure virtually NEVER happens!

Winners don’t STAY down, even if we do get KNOCKED down occasionally.

These last two years have been brutal for me (personally, and to a lesser degree professionally), but never ONCE did I consider PERMANENTLY staying down.

It’s literally not an option that ever crossed my mind.

Sure, like Mitch says in the quote above, I had to make some serious adjustments - diversifying my revenue streams, working longer hours, eliminating distractions, etc. It was a hard slog for a good year and a half when I didn’t know the answers to some pretty big questions.

But I never feared failure, because I knew it would never permanently beat me.

It doesn’t have to permanently defeat you, either, and it never will, just as long as you commit to NEVER backing down from what you SAY that you want in this life.

Failure might rip through the ranks of lesser business owners, and people who just kinda thought that “maybe” they wanted to run a business. But we are not like them. YOU are not like them. You will not give up. You will not give in. And neither will I.

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Finishing that book breakdown was a MAJOR undertaking, and I fell behind on some of my other work because of that, but I feel GREAT having finally finished it. I just sent it off to Ali’s team, and they’re going to help spread the word! So that should be pretty epic.

Tomorrow, I HAVE TO get going on YouTube. I said that it was a priority, but then I didn’t MAKE it a priority by devoting time to it in my calendar. Yes, yes, the breakdown. But still. I hate falling behind and so I’m making a major push now.

But hey, it’s 3:21AM here right now and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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