The Two Masters That Determine Your Future

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There are two opposing forces that rule your life.

You must submit to one of them, but the choice of which one is completely yours.

You can either form good habits and make them your masters, or you can form bad habits and they can be your masters instead.

Personally, I’d rather become a “slave” to fantastic habits and have them almost literally carry me where I want to go, instead of becoming a slave to bad habits and being powerless to improve my life.

Many (most?) of your waking activities will be carried out on autopilot, but winners make sure they program themselves with the great habits that will lead straight to getting everything they want out of life.

Not enough people have told you this (ideally every day), but…

You can be a winner too.

You can be a winner, and it starts with cultivating winning habits.

And associating with other winners, learning from them, getting inspired by them, etc. That’s another huge part of the equation, but I’d say that even that is secondary to having great habits:

*Reading Books

*Working Out

*Sleeping Well

*Asking Questions When You Don’t Understand Something

*Living in the Moment

*Planning Your Day the Night Before

*Treating People with Courtesy and Respect

These are all habits you can form, and they’re going to make all the difference for you, as they have for me and basically everyone who’s achieved some measure of success in their own lives.

Exercise your freedom to choose positive, life-affirming, successful habits, and then submit to their benevolent dictatorship. That’s the formula.

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3. Time Management, by Brian Tracy

Within My Direct Control:

Finish Reading 20 Great Books | 17 Books Left

Publish 8 New Course Videos | 8 Videos Left

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Publish 150 Medium Articles | 141 Articles Left

Completely Update My Social Media | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Patreon Page | Incomplete

Completely Update My Newsletter Platforms | Incomplete

Completely Update My Entire Main Website | Incomplete

Launch Affiliate Program for My Paid Community | Incomplete

Update 30 Patreon Book Notes | 18 Book Notes Left

Network with 600 New Authors | 560 Authors Left

Not Within My Direct Control:

Get Monetized on YouTube | 3,484 Watch Hours Left (12.9% Complete)

Negotiate 12 Newsletter Partnerships | 12 Partnerships Left

Organize 12 Instagram Collaborations | 12 Collaborations Left

Reach 119,000 Instagram Followers | 4,252 Followers Left

Reach 24,000 Threads Followers | 3,900 Followers Left

Reach 11,000 Twitter Followers | 3,209 Followers Left

Reach 4,000 Medium Followers | 2,042 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 Facebook Followers | 690 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 LinkedIn Followers | 1,109 Followers Left

Reach 10,000 YouTube Subscribers | 8,449 Subscribers Left

Reach 10,000 Reading Life Subscribers | 5,455 Subscribers Left

Reach 1,000 Competitive Advantage Subscribers | 426 Subscribers Left

Reach 50 Competitive Advantage Members | 11 Members Left

Reach 50 Patreon Supporters | 19 Supporters 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.

Read 5 New Books | 3 Books Left

Publish 2 New Course Videos | 2 Videos Left

Publish 3 YouTube Videos | 3 Videos Left

Publish 35 Medium Articles | 34 Articles Left

Upload New VSL for Skool Community | Editing Now

Upload Skool Community Testimonials | Gathering Now

Upload All Old Podcast Episodes | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Instagram Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My YouTube Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Website | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Newsletter | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Patreon | Almost Finished

Network with 140 Authors | 120 Authors Left

Note: “Week Two” Runs From September 8th-14th

Woke Up: 2PM

Sleep Quality: 70%

Pages Read: 125

Workout: Shoulders

Smith Press - 100lbs, 90lbs, 80lbs, 80lbs (8 reps, last set to failure)

DB Rear Raise - 23lbs, 23lbs, 23lbs, 23lbs (12 reps, last set to failure)

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

Shoulder Press - 65lbs, 60lbs, 50lbs, 50lbs (12 reps, last set to failure)

Work Completed:

Posted 2x on Instagram

Posted 3x on Twitter

Posted 3x on Threads

Posted 2x on LinkedIn

Posted 2x on Facebook

Posted 1x to YouTube Community Tab

Worked on Updating My Website

Worked on Current Author Campaigns

Worked on My Next Book Breakdown

Managed Paid Competitive Advantage Community

Completely Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow

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Decently productive, fulfilling day. Nothing too crazy though. Tomorrow we’ve got our bi-weekly live call inside The Competitive Advantage mastermind and I’m looking forward to that, but I’m also going to be head-down on FINALLY getting my latest YouTube video up, and making some major dents in some of my other September goals.

But hey, it’s 4:15AM here right now and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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