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How to Set Yourself Up to Win This September
Matt Karamazov
August 28, 2024
📚 Hey! Time to win.
Don’t wait until September to start thinking about September.
There are still four days left in August, and the highest-performers in the world have been thinking and planning and strategizing for days, maybe even weeks.
We don’t just leave our next moves to chance - we make things happen, and we help everyone in our group win too.
That’s why on Friday, at 2PM Eastern, we’re having another live call inside The Competitive Advantage community to make sure we all have extreme clarity on how we’re going to absolutely smash it this September.
All community members are invited, but this is something you can also do by yourself, for yourself.
Yes, it’s better to have an entire group of people to bounce ideas off of, but even giving SOME prior thought and attention to how you’re going to move forward already puts you ahead of the vast majority of people for whom September will be a total loss and surprise.
Do NOT let that happen to you. Your life is too important to leave it to chance.
That means, first and foremost, mapping out at least a vague idea of what you want to achieve next month, and a tentative action plan for achieving it.
For myself, that takes the form of a content strategy, outreach strategy, health and fitness strategy, business development strategy - all of it.
None of this can be left to chance.
The easiest win of all is taking the time to get this process started, because you can be sure that most people just won’t.
Set yourself up to win next month. Do it early. Do it with intention. Do it with faith and purpose. Do it now.
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Note: “Week Four” Runs From August 25th-31st
Woke Up: 1:00PM
Sleep Quality: 70%
Pages Read: 55
Workout: Rest Day
Work Completed:
Posted 1x on Twitter
Submitted 2 Medium Articles
Introduced Myself to 10 New Authors
Worked on Updating My Website
Worked on Current Author Campaigns
Worked on the Next Reading Life Newsletter
Had Video Call with Head of Beehiiv Partner Program
Had Video Call with Another Twitter Creator in My Niche
Managed Paid Competitive Advantage Community
Completely Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow
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You’ll notice that today’s email is being sent out much earlier, and that I was pretty quiet on social media today! It’s rare that I don’t post at ALL, but this was one of those “behind the scenes” days” where most of my work was on the business development side of things.
I also have a VERY early meeting tomorrow for coffee with a friend of mine (one of the top fitness coaches/authors in the world) and for some stupid reason I agreed to be there at 8am haha. Ah well, at least it’ll get me to bed earlier.
Tomorrow is going to be HEAVY on the content side, and also preparing for September, which is obviously something I’m taking very seriously.
I think I mentioned before that Ali Abdaal is sharing my breakdown of his book (which I’ll be finishing soon) with about 1.5M people on three different platforms, and that’s a huge opportunity I need to absolutely smash.
But hey, it’s 1:37AM here right now and I’m going to bed!
All the best,
Matt Karamazov
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