Spanking the dark forces undermining your communities and country
Published: Wed, 06/12/19
— Paul Hartunian
The above is one of my favorite quotes, because the world really is changed with a checkbook.
Not hashtags.
Or handwritten signs on tumblr.
Or good thoughts.
Or positive thinking.
Or telling people "love and light!"
Or trying to get someone de-platformed because they offend you
Or the law of attraction.
Or electing "your" politicians.
Or Facebook "likes."
Or soaking the middle class and rich in more taxes.
Or social media images with the guy who played Willy Wonka espousing someone's political or ideological propaganda.
Or Trump.
Or memes.
Or bribing corrupt bureaucrats.
Or the United Nations.
Or... or... any of that nonsense.
No my little droogie, it comes from a checkbook.
And oftentimes, several checkbooks.
For example:
There is an organization out there called "The Innocence Project". And what they do is, they help get innocent people out of prison. And, they do it with DNA testing, re-examining peoples' cases, uncovering fraud and corruption in the legal process, etc. They just got New York to finally crack down on and punish corrupt prosecutors after showing them how over 200 people there have been falsely imprisoned, and counting…
They've helped exonerate some 400 people so far.
That's 400 people who were (on average) in prison for 13 years including 18 who were on death row, enduring all the usual fun times prison has to offer:
* Dodging rapists
* Corrupt & violent prison guards
* Wondering when (or if) they'll see their spouse or kid again
* No freedom
* Constant fear & physical danger
* Food that'd make a rodent sick
* And the list goes on...
Well guess what?
When the Innocence Project takes a case on, it isn't some fool waxing stupid on flakebook and trying to shame people into liking a post that pays for the work it takes to get the innocent man off.
It's a checkbook.
Or, in this case, lots of checkbooks.
Lots of people putting their money where their mouths are.
Anyway, the point?
Nothing to do with marketing.
No business insights, either.
Not even (gasp!) anything about email.
No, the point is this:
As a business owner with financial independence (or someone working on being financially independent)... and who has the ability and opportunity to work for yourself... call your own shots... make your own paycheck... control your financial destiny... you have the chance to affect real change.
The kind of change that saves lives.
In his "System Club Letters" Email Players subscriber Ken McCarthy put it best:
"One of the best things you can do for your country is to become economically independent - and use your economic independence to take a stand against the forces that routinely undermine our communities and our country. If people like us don't do it, who's going to?"
Good point, Mr. McCarthy.
Anyway, something to chew on.
My vehicle of choice for financial independence is email.
It's what I teach in "Email Players" each month and it's something you can learn, too.
If you want to master using this vehicle, simply do this:
1. Log off facebook for a few minutes
2. Fight the withdrawal symptoms created from disconnecting from the social media hive mind for a few minutes
3. And go to this link:
http://www.EmailPlayers.com
4. Apply the info each month
This last part is important.
If you don't apply the info, it won't do you a lick of good.
All right, that’s it for today.
More fun tomorrow…
Ben Settle