{"id":18490,"date":"2026-01-17T23:09:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=18490"},"modified":"2026-01-17T23:09:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:09:45","slug":"a-sneaky-way-to-use-anti-resolutions-to-get-more-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/a-sneaky-way-to-use-anti-resolutions-to-get-more-done\/","title":{"rendered":"A sneaky way to use \u201cAnti-resolutions\u201d to get more done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know if this\u2019ll add anything to your life or not.<\/p>\n<p>But behold some New Year resolutions I make every year, but never get around to doing:<\/p>\n<p>1. Regular Twitter Spaces calls<\/p>\n<p>2. Live Zoom calls to my list<\/p>\n<p>3. Granting paying Email Players subscribers Marco Polo app access to me in addition to email access they have always gotten<\/p>\n<p>4. Writing a 4th Villains book<\/p>\n<p>5. Writing the graphic novel\/comicbook adaption script for my first Enoch Wars novel Zombie Cop<\/p>\n<p>Very unlikely I\u2019ll do any of these in 2026 either.<\/p>\n<p>i.e. Anti-resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>What I will be focusing on instead:<\/p>\n<p>* Getting a coherent 1st draft for the 7 (possibly 8 or 9) part series of novels I started writing in September<\/p>\n<p>* Growing my options trading account as quickly &amp; ruthlessly as possible to keep making cashflow faster than the <s>government<\/s> inflation can destroy it (what our Low Stress Trading framework does)<\/p>\n<p>* Helping take our Low Stress Trading company itself to $10 million &#8211; as we did just a hair less than half that in 2025, 600%+ growth (people are hungry for what it does, to say the least)<\/p>\n<p>* Putting out more &#8220;bait&#8221; for high quality Low Stress Trading affiliates, while turning off the low class\/low quality\/low info affiliates<\/p>\n<p>* Making the 15-year anniversary Email Players issue (the August 2026 issue) the best, most valuable, most intense of them all so far<\/p>\n<p>* Writing another Email Players &#8220;annual&#8221; issue<\/p>\n<p>* Going to the first mastermind I&#8217;ve attended since late 2018, especially since it\u2019s hosted by my pal Trevor Mauch and will be in the Burgle, which is less than 3 hours&#8217; drive and I drive up there once a month anyway<\/p>\n<p>* Possibly co-hosting our first &#8220;Vortex&#8221; event for our Low Stress Trading students in Bandon, OR, an hour from where I live &#8211; and in the very same wine bar\/restaurant where my business partner in BerserkerMail and Low Stress Trading Troy Broussard &amp; I plotted our first event (a one-off even we called \u201cWine Villains\u201d), that ultimately led to our various biz ventures like software and trading<\/p>\n<p>* Revamping my home page to optimize it for better and higher quality opt-ins<\/p>\n<p>* Assembling &amp; launching the sequel to my Copy Salesliloquies: Vol 1 book later this year<\/p>\n<p>Again, I don\u2019t know if this adds anything to anyone\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>But I have found writing all that out clarifying. And this sort of exercise is a way to get more done, even if for no other reason than it helps eliminate thinking about all the stuff you thought you&#8217;d do, but never really had any intention of doing it.<\/p>\n<p>If you have not done the same for your 2026, I highly suggest it.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about the paid Email Players newsletter here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.BenSettle.com\/alt\"><strong>www.BenSettle.com\/alt<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know if this\u2019ll add anything to your life or not. But behold some New Year resolutions I make every year, but never get around to doing: 1. Regular Twitter Spaces calls 2. Live Zoom calls to my list 3. Granting paying Email Players subscribers Marco Polo app access to me in addition to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-inner-game"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18490","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=18490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18513,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18490\/revisions\/18513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}