{"id":3791,"date":"2012-08-17T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2012-08-17T06:00:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T13:00:36","slug":"might-as-well-just-set-fire-to-your-bank-account-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/might-as-well-just-set-fire-to-your-bank-account-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Might As Well Just Set Fire To Your Bank Account Now&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got this interesting question about timing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Ben, I work a full time job, have a family and not a lot of time. I want to get my online business started but I&#8217;m thinking I should wait until I can focus on it more so I can make money faster. Thoughts?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;ll give you my thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>Time is passing anyway, so why wait?<\/p>\n<p>In fact, as a wise Star Trek villain once said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>&#8220;Time is the fire in which we burn&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s absolutely true.<\/p>\n<p>Time is like FIRE.<\/p>\n<p>Our lives are a giant forest, and the second we&#8217;re born a fire is set to it. During our lives we can do things to FAN those flames (like by not eating right, abusing drugs, etc) and burn the forest down faster.<\/p>\n<p>We can also do things to SLOW it down, too.<\/p>\n<p>But you can&#8217;t douse that fire totally.<\/p>\n<p>It ALWAYS burns.<\/p>\n<p>And eventually, ALL our forests burn down.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s hokey, but it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>There is no &#8220;right&#8221; time.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only TODAY.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time is passing anyway.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fire &#8212; fast or slow &#8212; is burning.<\/p>\n<p>Why put it off?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re marketing online, quit screwing around, start building a list and send it an email every day that sells subscribers a solution to their pains and problems. It&#8217;s fast, cheap and (if you do it right) extremely profitable.<\/p>\n<p>So get crackin&#8217; my friend.<\/p>\n<p>Every day you put it off, you rob yourself.<\/p>\n<p>For specialized help, check out &#8220;Email Players&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The next &#8220;Email Players&#8221; issue is a perfect starting point for beginners in a multitude of ways &#8212; both the main content of the issue and also the bonus training that is shipping with it.<\/p>\n<p>Both will help you get started FAST.<\/p>\n<p>And, making sales much quicker.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got this interesting question about timing: &#8220;Ben, I work a full time job, have a family and not a lot of time. 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