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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

Every business owner I’ve known -

Sorry, every SUCCESSFUL business owner I’ve known, has gone through all five steps of the “emotional cycle of change.”

It’s beautifully explained by Iman Gadzhi in this video here, which I watched earlier tonight.

Here are the steps:

1. Uninformed Optimism

2. Informed Pessimism

3. Valley of Despair

4. Informed Optimism

5. Success and Fulfillment

Most people - and I really do mean most people - never make it past the third step.

I did, because there was never a QUESTION in my mind whether I was going to keep going in my business or not.

I HAD TO make it, and so I never gave myself an “out” of any kind.

I was - and am - all in, all the time, to the very end. And so I was able to make it through every rough patch in the growth of my business and my personal brand online, and come out stronger and more motivated than ever on the other side.

But if you’re just getting started in your business, or if you’ve just hit a rough patch you think you may not get through, I highly recommend watching Iman’s video.

Even myself, who’s firmly between Steps 4 and 5 (closer to Step 5), got a lot out of it. It’s not super long, you can even watch it on 1.5x speed if you have to, but I recommend checking it out and taking notes.

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If you want to surround yourself with a group of ambitious, supportive winners on their way to adding $5K/month in monthly recurring revenue to their business, that’s exactly where you need to be.

Within My Direct Control:

Read 20 Books | 17 Books Left

Publish 15 New Time Mastery Videos | 15 Videos Left

Publish 27 YouTube Videos | 23 Videos Left

Publish 135 Medium Articles | 122 Articles Left

Completely Update My Social Media | 6 Platforms Left

Completely Update My Patreon Page | Incomplete

Completely Update My Newsletter Platforms | Incomplete

Completely Update My Email Welcome Sequence | Incomplete

Launch Affiliate Program for My Paid Community | Incomplete

Update 15 Patreon Book Notes | 15 Book Notes Left

Introduce Myself to 810 Authors | 757 Authors Left

Not Within My Direct Control:

Get Monetized on YouTube | 3,678 Watch Hours Left

Negotiate 12 Newsletter Partnerships | 11 Partnerships Left

Organize 12 Instagram Collaborations | 11 Collaborations Left

Reach 110,000 Instagram Followers | 1,246 Followers Left

Reach 20,000 Threads Followers | 4,700 Followers Left

Reach 9,000 X Followers | 1,412 Followers Left

Reach 3,000 Medium Followers | 1,134 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 Facebook Followers | 760 Followers Left

Reach 1,000 LinkedIn Followers | 316 Followers Left

Reach 5,000 YouTube Subscribers | 3,721 Subscribers Left

Reach 5,000 Reading Life Subscribers | 1,337 Subscribers Left

Reach 1,000 Competitive Advantage Subscribers | 538 Subscribers Left

Reach 50 Competitive Advantage Members | 11 Members Left

Reach 30 Patreon Supporters | 10 Supporters Left

Fill 8 Author Promo Slots Until End of June | 7 Slots Left

Fill 3 Open Business Coaching Spots | 3 Spots 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.

Woke Up: 1:00PM

Sleep Quality: 66%

Pages Read: 75

Workout: Back + Biceps

Cable Rows - 80lbs, 80lbs, 75lbs, 75lbs - (8 reps, last set to failure)

BB Rows - 60lbs, 60lbs, 60lbs, 60lbs - (8 reps, last set to failure)

Close-Grip Lat Pulldowns - 60lbs, 50lbs, 50lbs, 50lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)

DB Curls - 35lbs, 35lbs, 35lbs, 35lbs - (12 reps, last set to failure)

Work Completed:

Posted 1x on Instagram

Posted 4x on Twitter

Posted 4x on Threads

Posted 2x on LinkedIn

Posted 3x on Facebook

Posted 1x to YouTube Community Tab

Published 2 Medium Articles

Worked on Updating Backend Pages of My Website

Worked on My Email Welcome Sequence and Marketing Funnel

Got in Touch with 5 Authors Regarding Book Marketing

Scripted Some New YouTube Videos

Sent The Reading Life Newsletter

Had Coaching Call with Member of The Competitive Advantage

Completely Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow

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A lot of things went right today, which I’m always grateful for. Made some DECENT progress, but it’s proving harder than I thought to get my backend systems all ready and firing by the end of May!

I’ll make it though.

Tomorrow will be a great day too, as I’m going to be spending lots of time outside reading, but also recording some fun YouTube videos that should also do VERY well for my channel.

There’s one “trending” video with the title “YouTube Changed My Life (With Less Than 500 Subscribers) and I’m going to record my own version tomorrow. I have some things to add that weren’t mentioned in the other videos and creators are getting some INSANE views with that title + subject.

But hey, it’s 4:36AM here right now and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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