Sleep Faster!

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

This is Day 2 of my “Total Accountability” project - basically sharing everything I’m doing to grow my business, read 200 books this year, train for more fitness shoots, etc. etc. All that stuff.

If you read yesterday’s email, you probably guessed (correctly) that today was…

Not ideal.

My sleep has been allll off, and before I share with you what I did today to move closer to my Ultimate Vision, I have to say a few words about sleep.

On 8 hours of sleep, I feel as though I could cure cancer while fighting off a pack of hyenas at the same time. But anything less than 5?

Man. Today was brutal to get through.

Your sleep is SO incredibly important to your success and although usually I’m pretty good at getting enough of it, “pretty good” isn’t going to cut it for people like us who demand the BEST from ourselves each and every day.

Today wasn’t my best.

It could have been worse, but yea, I’m not going to be able to do all those things I mentioned above if I don’t get serious about sleeping.

I know Arnold says you just have to “sleep faster,” and while I do love that line, consider this your reminder from your friend Matt to GET SOME SLEEP!

It’s IMPORTANT. Your success rests (no pun intended) on whether or not you keep doing the fundamentals, over and over and over, and sleep is definitely one of those fundamentals.

One of the best books I’ve ever read on sleep is called Why We Sleep, by Matthew Walker, and I highly recommend it. So check that out if this is something you struggle with.

I’m going to bed right now, but at the bottom of this email I’ll lay out everything I did today to move closer to my vision.

…and notice that I STILL went to the gym. Even though I didn’t feel like it. THAT’s when it’s MOST important that you get there.

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Woke Up: Around 2 (that’s PM! Shameful!)

Sleep Quality: 79% (although it felt like 29%)

Pages Read: 48 (ugh)

Workout: Back and Biceps

Lat Pulldowns - 55lbs, 50lbs, 50lbs, 50lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)

BB Rows - 125lbs, 125lbs, 125lbs, 115lbs - (8 reps, last set to failure)

Cable Rows - 70lbs, 65lbs, 65lbs, 65lbs - (8 reps, last set to failure)

Barbell Curls - 60lbs, 60lbs, 60lbs, 50lbs - (8 reps, last set to failure)

DB Curls - 30lbs, 25lbs, 25lbs, 23lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)

Work Completed:

Consolidated My February Content Strategy

Worked on Updating Patreon Book Notes

Worked on Current Author Marketing Campaigns

Published 1 Medium Article

Posted 1x on Instagram

Posted 2x on Twitter

Posted 2x on Threads

Posted 2x on LinkedIn

Posted 2x on Facebook

Posted 1x on YouTube Community Tab

I also did some light organizational stuff, just getting my work ready for tomorrow (helps tremendously to plan things out the night before), and get on top of a few things.

There are still a few emails from coaching clients and others that I have to respond to, but THAT can wait until I’ve had some sleep :)

Until next time…happy reading!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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