{"id":13349,"date":"2026-04-16T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13349"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:31:58","slug":"thursday-thought-nimble-means-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/thursday-thought-nimble-means-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Thought: Nimble Means Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Plays are always evolving and as plenty of us have learned, <a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/lessons-from-the-big-axe-american-express-2025-edition\/\">they can vanish in the blink of an eye<\/a>. That&#8217;s especially true if you&#8217;re a believer in axe-everything-Saturday, but I digress. When a play inevitably dies for you, you&#8217;ll need to pivot to a new play. If you&#8217;re like many of us, that takes time with roadblocks like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Analysis paralysis, like &#8220;what&#8217;s the best way to get money into that new account?&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fear of another shutdown, or &#8220;but what if this new play gets me shutdown at my credit union?&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Setup friction, or &#8220;I need a new EIN and some micro-deposits, I&#8217;ll do that later&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Opportunity cost, or &#8220;I could just run over to Kroger instead&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve got a few more to add to the list too. The punchline here should be obvious, when you let roadblocks get in the way, you&#8217;re not earning money on a new play. Since plays can die in weeks or months, getting six to seven figures through them in a short time can be the difference between earning lunch money or earning a new SUV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good luck friends!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"834\" height=\"822\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13352\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-3.png 834w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-3-300x296.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-3-768x757.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Then there are the plays that earn &#8220;lunch&#8221; money instead of lunch money. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plays are always evolving and as plenty of us have learned, they can vanish in the blink of an eye. That&#8217;s especially true if you&#8217;re<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13557,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349\/revisions\/13557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}