{"id":8782,"date":"2014-08-01T06:30:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T13:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=8782"},"modified":"2014-08-01T06:30:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T13:30:21","slug":"what-the-hellz-the-matter-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/what-the-hellz-the-matter-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Hellz The Matter With You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the year over half way gone, I got to looking at some of the\u00a0goals I publicly made in January, specifically:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Write a sequel to my zombie book\u00a0<\/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\u00a0workshop I do with Andre Chaperon, Jack Born and Ryan Levesque)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Do more media appearances (radio and print)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Write an email marketing book for a traditional publisher<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NOTE: This list did not count the intangible goals I made &#8212; like having\u00a0more patience and self discipline, yada yada yada<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, guess what?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already knocked out almost all them bad-boys:<\/p>\n<p>Weekly podcast?<\/p>\n<p>Check.<\/p>\n<p>Zombie Cop sequel?<\/p>\n<p>Affirmative.<\/p>\n<p>(First draft of &#8220;Vampire Apocalypse&#8221; is in the can as of a week ago\u00a0&#8212; should be ready before Christmas, and make a great &#8220;stocking\u00a0stuffer&#8221;&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Write 6-7 emails per week instead of just 5?<\/p>\n<p>Yeppers.<\/p>\n<p>(Sometimes I even do more than 7&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Do more consulting-type deals?<\/p>\n<p>You bet your gluteus assimus &#8212; although I changed this to public\u00a0speaking. (i.e. Spoke at the &#8220;No Excuses Summit&#8221; in Vegas at the\u00a0end of June, and speaking again at another event in Phoenix in\u00a0November for Greg Gomez III, plus doing a special training for a\u00a0mastermind group in Florida for Ray Higdon at the end of October).<\/p>\n<p>As for the rest?<\/p>\n<p>The 3 I haven&#8217;t done (yet) are:<\/p>\n<p>(1) Write more how-to Kindle books&#8230; (2) do more mainstream media\u00a0appearances&#8230; and (3) write a book about email marketing for a\u00a0traditional publisher.<\/p>\n<p>But, it ain&#8217;t no big thing.<\/p>\n<p>Two of those 3 I decided not to pursue.<\/p>\n<p>Mainstream media ain&#8217;t nearly as profitable as doing podcast\u00a0interviews (which I have done more of this year). And a traditional\u00a0publisher? Why bother? Much more fun self publishing, and I don&#8217;t\u00a0really care about having the prestige of being published by a\u00a0traditional publisher.<\/p>\n<p>What about you?<\/p>\n<p>You aggressively going after your 2014 goals?<\/p>\n<p>No?<\/p>\n<p>What the hellz the matter with you.<\/p>\n<p>Time is passing anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Might as well DO something with it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, one more thing.<\/p>\n<p>About writing more &#8220;how to&#8221; Kindle books&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Not sure I&#8217;ll reach this goal.<\/p>\n<p>But to see the 16 books I have there now, check out:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BenSettle.com\/kindle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.BenSettle.com\/kindle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the year over half way gone, I got to looking at some of the\u00a0goals I publicly made in January, specifically: Write a sequel to my zombie book\u00a0 Start a weekly podcast Write 6-7 emails per week instead of 5 Write more &#8220;How to&#8221; Kindle books Do more consulting type deals (like the &#8220;Oceans 4&#8221; [&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-8782","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\/8782","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=8782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}