Your Psyche Has to Be Rewarded for Paying a Price

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

I recommended a phenomenal book earlier tonight in my other newsletter: a book called Choose Your Enemies Wisely, by Patrick Bet-David.

Here’s one of my favorite quotes in the entire book:

I’m the worst for delaying gratification TOO LONG, and not rewarding myself for a job well done. Part of me always feels like the work is never over, and that I can never allow myself a reward of any kind.

Resist this trap as much as possible; better than I’ve been able to, at least.

Now, of course, plenty of people go the OPPOSITE way, and blow stacks of cash the minute they make some little bit of money.

That’s a serious trap to avoid too.

But if you’re calling on your willpower and your drive and your determination every single day with no rest, no reward, no compensation for putting yourself through that, it’s just like red-lining the engine of a car and keeping your foot down until the car breaks down.

Don’t get lazy. Don’t coast. But also don’t deprive yourself of the fruits of your labors forever.

Read the book, too. It’s amazing.

I ended up with nine pages of notes.

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Note: “Week Three” Runs From July 15th-21st

Woke Up: 1:00PM

Sleep Quality: 75%

Pages Read: 45

Workout: Skipped (Failed Today - And I Hate It)

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Today felt very strange for some reason. This has nothing to do with business, but more of a sense that I’m suspended over the cliff of the future and that the next 3-5 years of my life are going to look VERY different.

Not necessarily worse, just DIFFERENT. I don’t know. Weird times we’re living in, I guess. At least I’ll always have my books :)

But hey, it’s 5:54AM here right now and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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