{"id":7958,"date":"2014-01-04T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=7958"},"modified":"2014-01-04T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T14:00:53","slug":"how-to-build-a-legacy-that-outlives-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-build-a-legacy-that-outlives-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Build A Legacy That Outlives You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burping along on my 2014 goals&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Last couple days I talked about having more patience and more self discipline &#8212; both of which will be invaluable in helping me achieve my next 2014 goal, which is none other than&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Pumping out more projects.<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Write a sequel to my zombie book (which will be about a vampire, not zombies)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Start a weekly podcast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Write 6-7 emails per week instead of 5<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Write more &#8220;How to&#8221; Kindle books<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Do more consulting type deals (like the &#8220;Oceans 4&#8221; mastermind workshop I&#8217;m doing with Andre Chaperon, Jack Born and Ryan Levesque in Vegas next month)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Do more media appearances (radio and print)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Write a book (about email marketing) for a traditional publisher<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And the list goes on&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing:<\/p>\n<p>Over the past couple years I&#8217;ve kinda coasted.<\/p>\n<p>By that I mean, I have mostly focused just on writing the &#8220;Email Players&#8221; newsletter, along with these emails, and emails for other ventures I have my fat fingers in&#8230; plus a few books here and there. But recently (for reasons I will go into later) I&#8217;ve been motivated to do more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To push myself harder.<\/p>\n<p>To conquer new territory.<\/p>\n<p>And, build a legacy that outlives me.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t do that by staying comfy.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I have to get out of my comfort zone.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what?<\/p>\n<p>You should do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Not just in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>But, for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n<p>(Otherwise, what&#8217;s the point?)<\/p>\n<p>More tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Go here for more beef soup for the soul:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristianBusinessSecrets.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.ChristianBusinessSecrets.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burping along on my 2014 goals&#8230; Last couple days I talked about having more patience and more self discipline &#8212; both of which will be invaluable in helping me achieve my next 2014 goal, which is none other than&#8230; Pumping out more projects. For example: Write a sequel to my zombie book (which will be [&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":[8,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","7":"category-email-marketing","8":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7958","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=7958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}