My Video Just Crossed 1,000,000+ Views!

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

Before I get into the video that got me 1M views, I want to share a quick exercise I JUST did and found extraordinarily helpful.

Being OBSESSED with time and not wasting a single moment of it, I’m always looking to optimize my schedule, save time, work faster, etc.

And today I both scared myself AND gave myself hope by separating my entire day into half-hour blocks to see how much time I ACTUALLY have each day.

This is dead-simple math, of course.

You don’t even need a calculator to realize that if you’re awake for 16 hours (assuming 8 hours sleep) and you divide those hours into 2, you’re left with 32 half-hour blocks.

The wild part of the exercise is actually FILLING those blocks with the activities you normally do each day and seeing how much time you have left.

It’s…not much!

A terrifyingly, vanishingly small amount of time. And that’s assuming nothing goes wrong, you don’t WASTE any time, you’re able to focus, etc. etc. Lots of “ifs” here. But it’s definitely an exercise worth doing!

But okay, so about that video…

3,500 people followed me on Instagram as a direct result of posting this video here. That’s pretty wild!

It’s now up to 1,000,000 views, 8,500 likes, 4,000 shares, and 20,000 saves!

AND...

My inspiration for this post was another reel I saw from a different creator who got 250K views with this same format.

The Takeaway: Research! Analyze your "competitors" (by which I mean just other people creating online, you don't have to "beat" them if you don't care about that), and use what's already working for them in YOUR content.

Put your own spin on it, of course, and make it YOURS, but take inspiration wherever you find it.

You may just walk away with 1M views and 3,500 new followers :)

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Reach 110,000 Instagram Followers | 2,643 Followers Left

Reach 20,000 Threads Followers | 5,200 Followers Left

Reach 9,000 X Followers | 1,409 Followers Left

Reach 3,000 Medium Followers | 1,143 Followers Left

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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.

Woke Up: 1:00PM

Sleep Quality: 80%

Pages Read: 60

Workout: Shoulders + Biceps

I didn’t track my workout today, it was just a “fun” session while I get back into training after taking some time off. Felt great though, and strong. Will be back to tracking my workouts next week!

Work Completed:

Posted 1x on Instagram

Posted 3x on Twitter

Posted 3x on Threads

Posted 1x on Facebook

Posted 1x on LinkedIn

Published 1 YouTube Video Short

Organized My Work for Next Author Campaigns

Managed My Paid Community on Skool

Worked on Updating Backend Pages of My Website

Worked on My Email Welcome Sequence and Marketing Funnel

Completely Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow

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Productive day, but tiring! I’m beat! And it’s way too late for me to justify staying up any longer, so I’m going to cut this off here. But YOUR day might be just beginning, and it is YOURS to make it a masterpiece if you choose to. I believe in you.

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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