One of the single most valuable books I’ve ever read for business is Dan Kennedy’s:

“NO BS Time Management”

My favorite part is about what he calls “Time Vampires”. These are people that suck up your time like a traditional vampire sucks up your blood. They basically tap a vein in your time and take as much of it as you foolishly allow because you’re too nice to stick a cross in their face and rebuke them… leaving you a pale, withered husk of a schlub — dried out of all energy, patience, and desire to work.

Anyway, Dan identified several of them.

But over the past 22+ years since first reading and as my business has grown, with my time becoming far more of a novelty it is now vs the commodity I originally allowed it to be…I’ve identified several more that try to scratch at my office window, thirsty, and begging to be let in. And each of them are particularly gruesome, dangerous, and blood-thirsty.

They are:

* The Debating Dracula – who always wants to debate you online or via email

* Bride Of Debating Dracula – who also always wants to debate you online or via email

* The “I’ll Be Back” Barnabas Collins – who has something you require, says they’ll be back, never returns, so you have to waste time chasing them all round hell and gone just to get whatever it is they were supposed to do or give you

* The Always-Late Lestat – who is always, without exception, late disrespecting both your time and theirs, always with an excuse of course (one of my friends is like this, one day a mentor told him, “if you’re late that means either you don’t respect their time or you don’t respect yours, either way you’re being rude and disrespectful…”)

* The Nagging Nosferatu – constantly nagging at you, sucking up your time drop by drop with their pedantic & pointless nagging

* The Count Of Chronic Texting – always texting you and demanding replies immediately

I’ve dealt with all these evil things.

And nowadays the second I so much as see one of their ghoulish shadows growing on the wall I immediately turn and stake them through the hearts, cut off their heads, and stuff garlic down their miserable throats. Then I set their bodies on fire and salt the ground in a circle around the ashes just to be sure.

Once I started ruthlessly doing that my income dramatically increased.

So did my productivity and enjoyment of my work.

More:

These time vampires are filthy, nasty, unclean… and totally worthy of contempt. And while you may foolishly think you are immune to their hypnotic gaze, I would bet someone else’s left testicle that at least 2 or 3 of these vile, “revenue revenants” have long ago tapped one of YOUR veins, and have been mainlining your time ever since… with you so used to it you no longer even notice it and are none the wiser.

My advice?

It certainly won’t hurt to have as much contempt for them as I do.

And the way to do that is to get Dan Kennedy’s NO BS Time Management book.

It’s like a time vampire hunter’s field manual. He walks you through how to valuate your time amongst other extremely practical and profitable tips. The chapters on self discipline & patience are especially valuable. Probably the two most valuable chapters of any business related book I’ve ever read in some ways that have lead, guided, and instructed me for over 20 years to accomplish more than my lazy bum competition.

I will also say this:

Once you understand your time’s value the way Dan shows in the book, you will likely never look at a time vampire trying to suck up your time ever again. You will see, as I saw many years ago, that a time vampire feasting on you is literally stealing money right out of your pocket.

The book is just incredibly useful.

And it changed everything, early on, about who I do business with.

Frankly, don’t even think of it as a “book.” It’s a sharp stake dripping holy water. And by using it you will have that much easier of a time identifying and dispatching these evil creatures of the night wanting to steal all your time and money and energy.

To get the book simply do this:

1. Go to Amazon and type in: “Dan Kennedy Time Management”

2. Look for the new 2024 version he wrote with Ben Glass

3. Add to cart…

Obviously, I have no affiliate or JV arrangement.

I just want everyone in my horde to possess it, use it, benefit from it.

Even if just makes you more likely to respect MY time…

Ben Settle

P.S. Since we’re talking about vampires:

If you want to see my own take on vampire lore, check out my Enoch Wars novels on Amazon too, while you’re there. Or, if you want a free, uhm… “taste”… of them without paying any money, I have the first novel (Zombie Cop) in the Enoch Wars mobile app free. It’s in there as an eBook, audio book, and even the screenplay if’n that creams your righteous twinkie. I also have writing tips, business tips, and fiction tips in there, too.

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