{"id":12536,"date":"2017-11-14T08:39:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T16:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=12536"},"modified":"2017-11-14T08:39:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T16:39:17","slug":"playboys-guide-to-knowing-who-to-avoid-in-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/playboys-guide-to-knowing-who-to-avoid-in-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Playboys Guide To Knowing Who To Avoid In Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite Twitter accounts Wall Street Playboys\u00a0recently shot out another gem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>If you&#8217;re looking for new contacts?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Avoiding the unhappy is probably the very first rule<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No such thing as unhappy &amp; &#8220;successful&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is some of the best advice you\u2019ll ever get.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of the 48 Laws of Power, too.<\/p>\n<p>And, it\u2019s something I\u2019ve been actively doing for years. Nothing personal against miserable people. But other peoples\u2019 misery is as contagious as the bewb-onic plague, and just as deadly to your peace of mind and success. This is especially true when their misery is self-inflicted, they do nothing to change their circumstances, and even stubbornly cling to it for the attention\/drama\/flakebook likes it creates.<\/p>\n<p>Best part?<\/p>\n<p>Social media makes it as easy as falling off a couch to spot \u2018em.<\/p>\n<p>See someone constantly droning about how sucky their lives are (personal life, business life, love life, family life, dating life, work life, friendship life, online life, offline life, and the list goes on\u2026) and all their so-called \u201cproblems\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Avoid them.<\/p>\n<p>Even better:<\/p>\n<p>Cut \u2018em out completely.<\/p>\n<p>I routinely do this, coldly and without explanation. Including to people I\u2019ve done business with and who have been paying customers, people I\u2019ve considered friends, and even certain family members who get out of line.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never once regretted it.<\/p>\n<p>(If anything, I tend to wait too long to do it.)<\/p>\n<p>Just reading their bull shyt will screw with your head.<\/p>\n<p>All right enough.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re full of misery, there\u2019s not much I can do to help. That is, unless your misery is caused by a lack of sales. If that\u2019s the case, my \u201cEmail Players\u201d newsletter can wipe that slack, bovine-look off your face in no time.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the link:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite Twitter accounts Wall Street Playboys\u00a0recently shot out another gem: If you&#8217;re looking for new contacts? Avoiding the unhappy is probably the very first rule No such thing as unhappy &amp; &#8220;successful&#8221; This is some of the best advice you\u2019ll ever get. It\u2019s one of the 48 Laws of Power, too. And, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-email-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}