Take What's YOURS This April

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

It’s April 3rd and I’ve been hitting the ground running, making progress on all my goals, and taking what’s mine.

I hope you’ve been doing the same.

You keep putting in the work while everyone else quits?

You keep moving forward when everyone else says it’s too hard?

If you keep doing that…

You’re going to make it.

I believe in you, your abilities, and your potential.

Always have, always will.

Today, I’m going to lay out my business goals for the coming month.

What I’m going to do actually is keep a running scorecard in every email from now on, so you know exactly what kind of progress I’m making (or not making) on my goals.

It’ll be a form of radical accountability that will help me stay on track, since I do NOT want to let you down.

I mean that.

I take my commitments seriously, and knowing that 400+ people are going to be able to read this email and call me out if I’m being lazy…

Well I find that incredibly motivating.

And maybe it goes without saying, but I HIGHLY recommend you put yourself out there as well, to SOMEONE, and stay accountable on the way to your goals.

You’re welcome to do that inside my supportive community full of ambitious professionals who WANT to see you succeed.

But you don’t have to join MY community.

I do, however, hope you join A community, because there really is no better way to achieve your goals.

With that said, here are mine…

APRIL GOALS:

Read 20 Books | 20 Books Left

Publish 12 New Time Mastery Videos | 12 Videos Left

Publish 28 YouTube Videos | 28 Videos Left

Publish 140 Medium Articles | 140 Articles Left

Get Monetized on YouTube | 3,734 Watch Hours Left

Completely Update My Social Media | 7 Platforms Left

Completely Update My Patreon Page | Incomplete

Completely Update My Newsletter Platforms | Incomplete

Completely Update My Welcome Email Sequence | Incomplete

Get Down to Inbox Zero | Embarrassing Number of Emails Left

Negotiate 10 Newsletter Partnerships | 10 Partnerships Left

Do 12 Instagram Collaborations | 12 Collaborations Left

Reach 110,000 Instagram Followers | 5,950 Followers Left

Reach 20,000 Threads Followers | 6,000 Followers Left

Reach 9,000 X Followers | 1,392 Followers Left

Reach 3,000 Medium Followers | 1,167 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 Facebook Followers | 763 Followers Left

Reach 1,000 LinkedIn Followers | 358 Followers Left

Reach 5,000 YouTube Subscribers | 3,818 Subscribers Left

Reach 5,000 Reading Life Subscribers | 1,359 Subscribers Left

Reach 1,000 Competitive Advantage Subscribers | 563 Subscribers Left

Reach 50 Competitive Advantage Members | 15 Members Left

Reach 30 Patreon Supporters | 10 Supporters Left

Update 25 Patreon Book Notes | 25 Book Notes Left

Introduce Myself to 280 Authors | 280 Authors Left

Fill 4 Author Promo Slots for May | 4 Spots Left

Fill 1 Open Coaching Spot | 1 Spot Left

Note: I’ll update follower counts once per week, since it’s such a waste of time to go through all of them every single night. Also, Threads annoyingly doesn’t give exact numbers. Oh well.

As you’ll notice, some of these aren’t completely within my control. I can’t force anyone to follow me on any of these platforms - all I can do is publish my best work, keep showing up, and become someone WORTH following.

And I can’t make any of these authors decide to work with me, but if I pitch my book marketing services to 280 authors (whose books I actually LIKE), then four of them represent just 0.014% of the total.

I like those odds! And I, like you, am willing to put in the work. To do whatever it takes to…MAKE. IT. HAPPEN!

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: 1:30PM (gah, shameful)

Sleep Quality: 73%

Pages Read: 20 (unusually low total for me!)

Workout: Rest Day

I’m actually taking the next few weeks off the gym, with the exception of some light cardio and maybe some even lighter weights. That’s what I do: I’ve been pushing myself extremely hard these past few months and have made spectacular gains, and so I’m giving my body (and mind) some extra time to recover and come back bigger and stronger.

Work Completed:

Posted 1x on Instagram

Posted 3x on Twitter

Posted 3x on Threads

Managed Competitive Advantage Community

Invoiced an Author for Book Marketing Services

Worked on Sales Page for The Competitive Advantage

Outlined 5 Medium Articles

Outlined My Entire Content Strategy for April

Did Some Boring Backend Organizational Stuff

Oh man, solid effort today. Really pleased with how everything is coming together, even though I had to toss an entire rough edit of a YouTube video because the audio sucked.

That’s something I’ve learned about making videos: people will forgive your camera gear, you don’t need a fancy light setup, or a bunch of fancy editing, but people will NOT stay for bad audio. So yeah, I had to toss that video.

But it’s not the worst thing. It wasn’t a GREAT video anyway, and so I’ll just chalk it up to “rehearsal” or “practice.” Tomorrow is another day.

But that’s it for today.

Until next time…happy reading!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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