How to Reach Escape Velocity

YOUTUBE  📚 THE READING LIFE  📚  PATREON

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

I’ve missed my share of credit card payments in the past, so I hope you’ll forgive me saying this:

But I woke up to $1,400 flying into my business account today, after receiving payment on a $600 invoice the other day, some other business income at the beginning of the month, etc.

I’ve probably made about $2,500 in the first week of February, and although I don’t expect that to happen every week, I am headed towards the most profitable month ever in my business.

This was no accident, and it’s been a long time coming, but I’m finally hitting “escape velocity,” by which I mean that phase where I can start investing much more heavily into growing my business, setting off this flywheel effect that will just keep turning faster and faster and faster.

For example, I’m already a full time creator and I’m already investing a little bit into growing my business, but soon I’ll be able to pour gas on the fire with paid ads, hire a video editor to help me put out more YouTube videos, which will earn me more YouTube AdSense revenue, etc. etc.

Everything just builds on itself to help me grow my business even faster, which leads to more profits, which allows me to grow my business faster, and the virtuous cycle repeats.

The advice I’d give from my own experience here is to set up a similar flywheel effect in your own life and put it to work for you.

If you’re in business yourself, then focus on momentum and building up to the point where your success fuels even greater success.

With your health, just by moving each day, you’ll have more energy, which will inspire you to work out more often.

Being active will then make you start to think about the foods you’re putting into your body, which will make you think it’s a shame to be working out all these hours and still eating garbage…and upwards along the same virtuous cycle.

Momentum is your competitive advantage, and you get it by stacking wins on top of each other and working every day to reach that escape velocity.

Opportunities to win abound, flywheel effects can be created in so many areas of your life, and they will compound in your favor, to the point where winning on an even more massive scale will just seem…inevitable.

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: 11:00AM

Sleep Quality: 73%

Pages Read: 75

Workout: Back + Biceps

Lat Pulldowns - 60lbs, 60lbs, 50lbs, 50lbs (12 reps, last set to failure)

BB Rows - 130lbs, 130lbs, 130lbs, 130lbs (8 reps, last set to failure)

Cable Rows - 70lbs, 70lbs, 70lbs, 70lbs (8 reps, last set to failure)

BB Curls - 70lbs, 60lbs, 60lbs, 60lbs (12 reps, last set to failure)

DB Curls - 30lbs, 25lbs, 25lbs, 25lbs (12 reps, last set to failure)

Work Completed:

Worked on Preparing My Upcoming Paid Community

Attended “Write Your Way to $5K” Workshop

Posted 1x on Twitter

Posted 1x on Instagram

Decently productive day, even though I didn’t publish nearly enough on my various platforms. Yes, there’s a reason for it, in that I’m working hard on my paid community, doing backend stuff for my business, etc.

But still. The posts need to go up! That’s part of my business too!

Tomorrow, the focus will be on getting the next book breakdown published, I’ve got another creator summit workshop to attend, and some book marketing to do for various authors, but I’m still going to prioritize getting those social posts out.

So until next time…happy reading!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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