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I live in a country where rice is the staple food. And what does it mean? It means that a major percentage of the population are diabetics. Rice when processed by our digestive system become glucose. So that means too much sugar in our bodies. Anyways, how do we see that as a money making opportunity as well as helping diabetics? It’s really pretty simple. This is how my cousin and I did it. My cousin works for a multinational company that deals with medical equipments and supplies. He got a huge discount if he purchases merchandise from where he worked. He supplied me with blood glucose monitoring systems (the portable ones) and test strips. ( the paper strip where in you put trickles of your blood to be inserted in the portable machine to know you blood sugar level.) I made money selling those monitoring systems for a profit or I charged for a fee if a person wants to know his or her blood sugar level or I sold the test strips only. I got like residual income from people with diabete...

I’m going to start off with the kind of business that I’m directly involved with. I have been a professional reader for over ten years now. I have accumulated throughout the years a steady client list here and abroad. I get paid for my services in cash or in kind. Getting invited to dinner or parties most of the time is one fringe benefits that I really enjoy just because of my skills. How to Start:If you have an interest in this field, have an appointment with a reader. Experience what’s it like to have someone do a reading on you. Then gather knowledge through reading books or the internet. Once you get the hang of it , practice doing readings yourself on friends and relatives. You get better as you practice consistently.For reasons that should be obvious, people love to have their horoscopes done, believe it or not. To get a glimpse of the future is a nearly irresistible temptation. Where to do it:Your home will do just fine. You don’t need a mysterious setting. With the stereotypic...

I grew up in an environment where home based business was a way of life. My mother used to own a home bakeshop. In my eyes it was natural for strangers to come and go in our house. Our kitchen was bigger and busier than most average family because of all that baking going on. As young as eight years old i was already introduced to the life of business. Suffice it to say, my teenage years were spent acquiring the necessary skills for the business like cake decorating, sugar and gumpaste flower molding and of course baking. During summer vacations I conducted short term classes for students and moms. It was an early training for me and an opportunity to earn money to buy all the knickknacks any teenager would love to own. For that particular summer I generated enough money to buy a top of the line stereo system. My early experience taught me to be aware of best business opportunities, money making ideas and lots ways to make money. In short it taught me to be entrepreneurial.There are lo...

5 Best Formats In Writing Articles If you are a beginner in online marketing, who is on a tight budget and know nothing about arbitrage(Pay per click) . Your best bet for advertising strategy is article writing. Writing online articles is the best way to generate traffic to your websites and will cost you nothing. The internet is mainly about information. And what a powerful way to have many visitors at your site than by offering relevant information through the articles your write. You can’t gain momentum just by writing one article. You need to crank out as many articles as you can in order to gain a wide readership to have a following. So here are my 5 favorite formats in writing online articles the fast way: 1. Tips/ Advice/Lists- easy to read, lots of white space chunks of information. Example: Ten ways to…. Three steps for,,,, Six ideas that…. 2. Cause/ Effect- you set up a situation and describe the result or you may want to trace multiple causes and effects. This format uses ...

Creativity is not a gift. It is something we have to work for. If you think you are either born creative or non creative, then you are laboring under a mistaken notion. Creativity is within everyone’s reach. Master these strategies to unleash your creative potential. -Saturation. Research is the first step to creative thinking. The great inventor Thomas Edison initially gathered and studied all the data and previous experiments of other inventors. He filled his mind first with all the facts before he tried to solve the problems himself. -Incubation. Having done all the work on a conscious level, the second step is a passive one. By relaxing, loafing and letting go, all you have learned and experienced in your lifetime will simmer in the part of your brain. We call it the subconscious mind. It works in a mysterious way, converting the data into new concepts and patterns. Salvador Dali, the master of surrealism used to sit in an armchair and hold a key over a plate on the floor. When he...

Setting goals is old hat. But there is a new way to look at it. Do you ever wish that your current circumstances were different? Do you wish you have a better job? Wish your children were more discipline and well behave? Wish you were thinner, drive your dream car, less financial problems, more compatible with your wife or girlfriend? We secretly hope that a bolt of lightning will wipe out our misery in one crackling instant. But wishing and hoping don’t bring about change. Goals do. Setting goals outline the steps you can follow one day at a time to make change possible. Like treasure maps, goals show the way to riches so wonderful you can’t even imagine. Setting goals reassure you that if you follow the path, you will arrive at the destination you want. I used to wait for a bolt of lightning to reduce all my worries to nothing. I wished that I will find the kind of work which I most care about and wish to be able to utilize my favorite set of skills on a daily basis. More than anythi...

Does this describe you? Your career is the envy of everyone you know. Your relationship with your partner is a non stop lovefest, money seems to drop out of the sky and you are so healthy you can’t even remember your last sniffle. You say this is not you? Good. If you have this wrong notion that, if you don’t get 100 percent of what you want such as the supermodel girlfriend, multi-million dollar record contract, the gulfstream jet you just not have anything. That’s being a full throttle 100 percent of a person. And you are a prime candidate for a cardiac arrest. Life is a series of compromises. As long as you are satisfied at least seventy-five percent of getting what you wanted then you have a fighting chance to be happy. Here are some why- didn’t-I- think –of- that ways in finding happiness. -Attitude is better than aptitude. People often lose their jobs not on the basis of proficiency but because of personality .It is the same thing with promotions. So be nice. -Dress Better. ...

In finding happiness we must understand that it’s not a feeling to be awaited. Happiness is definitely within our control. Although sometimes we ourselves sabotage the ways to finding happiness. We pursue these images of perfection in any symbol like a Ferrari F50, !00 foot yacht, a supermodel girlfriend and all that hype the media is selling us. Well you might think these things will make you happy but probably won’t. Just ponder on the downside of owning these tangible artifacts of perfection. You will shell out tens of thousands of dollars in luxury tax, annual insurance, maintenance, storage plus expenses for super premium fuel only. And how about half the male populace hitting on your gorgeous girlfriend? Can you sleep with your one eye open for the rest of the time you have a relationship with a supermodel? Can you go the distance of having a relationship whose 100 percent all about her 24/7? Happy people usually nurture habits that make them the way they are. Acquire these ha...

This is a checklist if you want to know the guy you have the hots for is worth keeping. It doesn’t matter if someone you’re dating is a deadringer for Tom Cruise or Enrique Iglesias as long as he has integrity, flexible, giving and treats you with compassion. You don’t have to know the person since kindergarten days, these subtle hints speak volumes about that person. He has: -A German shepherd. A goldfish or a niece he is fond of. Even owning a plant is a good sign. This shows the person is not commitment phobic. He has the affinity for nurturing and be constant to something in life. -Sense of humour. Being able to laugh together helps diffuse tension. Life is serious enough as it is. It doesn’t matter if he has a PHD in nuclear engineering , if you can’t laugh together your relationship is going to fizzle. Just make sure you have the same kind of sense of humor. If he laughs at the Three Stooges and you just look and stare or he doesn’t get why you find Jerry Seinfeld funny,...

When we are in a state of true happiness , studies how that there iare actually certain biological changes occur. There is increased activity in the brain center that inhibits negative feelings and quieting of those that generate worrisome thoughts. There is also an increase available energy and enthusiasm for whatever task is at hand. We have the drive to strive toward a great variety of goals. Here are bits of insightful and I might add offbeat tips to nudge you back into that state of ephemeral true happiness: -Don’t be an ingrate. Everyday ask yourself “What do I have that I am grateful for?” Your list like your health, your decent income, your solid relationship etc. By the time you are done checking off your list all the feelings of gloom and doom will have flitted away. -Ignore the stock market. Chinese researchers found a direct link between the daily performance of the stockmarket and the mental health of those who closely followed it. So give your investments time and give yo...

Learning meditation techniques is easy as abc. If there is one discovery in my adult life that I’m grateful for it’s learning meditation techniques. I wondered why I didn’t stumble upon it sooner. I am product of a broken home. I grew up insecure. A classic worrywart is what I used to see myself.. I worried about this and that. Outside I came out okay , I graduated in college, worked in the family business but inside I was crumbling. Endless loops of useless concerns invaded my mind. I lived my life that way until I learned about meditation techniques. Now I’m calmer, happier and able to manage whatever challenges that life has in store for me. My own techniques of meditation here’s how I do it: 1. I pick a quiet place, instead of sitting comfortably I prefer lying down, my arms on my side. I close my eyes and take deep breaths. Inhale through my nose and exhale through my mouth. When we are anxious we tend to take shallow breaths and that will even make us more anxious. Because the ac...

The pursuit of happiness is the most basic of all human rights. But we should know that happiness is a state of mind. It is ephemeral. You cannot reach a permanent state called happiness and remain there all the time. For some, true happiness is called “flow”. Flow is when you are totally focused and zoned in to what you are doing at the moment that you are oblivious to the outside world and to the passing of time. To achieve flow, we can creatively find ways to dodge the bullets of frustration, worry and depression into practical relaxation methods consequently help us to find true happiness. Here are some ideas to try: -Count your blessings. Develop that gratitude attitude. Pause each day to reflect on some positive aspect of your life and experience a heightened sense of well being. When you are appreciative and thankful you are subconsciously attracting more things in your life that you are going to be thankful for. -Scent the air. Research finds the benefits of aromatherapy in rel...

You are accountable to you. What, who, where you are today are the results of the choices and actions you took. Excuses are the very anti-thesis of dedication and hardwork. Are you sometimes guilty of making excuses especially when things go awry or your inability to make things happen the way you want? Excuses like too shy to date, not enough capital to start a business so on and so forth. The excuses get more outrageous everyday. Achieving a better life through hardwork and persistence are replaced by the excuse mill. Living excuse- free isn’t easy, but refusing to accept anything but the best from yourself can only lead to future success. And when you achieve success you will have no need for excuses. Following the path of least resistance. We look for challenges that requires less energy and present fewer obstacles. You can’t buy a well-developed body or buy a par golf score. Those are available only through intelligent, consistent work to anyone who is willing to apply his m...

Worrying is the heart of anxiety. Our mind spins on an endless loop of low grade melodrama. One set of concern leading on to the next and back again. We all experienced it right? More so with chronic worriers. When the same cycle of worry intensifies and persists it will become a full blown anxiety disorders such as phobias, obsessions and compulsions . But of course these are extreme cases. Worry makes us clench our jaws and lines our faces with wrinkles. Turns the hair gray and in some make it fall out. Ruins our complexion with all skin rashes and pimples. We have to lose ourselves in action so we won’t have the luxury of time to stew and fret about things that might not happen. Here are my two favorite worry busters that I would like to share to you. You might find an idea or two that you like. Some people when they are bothered by thoughts of worry, would immediately head off to the gym, badminton or basketball courts or to the local batting cages and sweat off their worries away...

Do you spend a longer time just trying to shake off a bad mood? Are you aware that moods are contagious? Moods are like a virus it can be swiftly and subtly passed from person to person. Happy or sad like a virus, some of us are the transmitter while others are susceptible to catching. Mood swings are normal. We need to have emotions. But we don’t need them to control us. Here are ways I found and applied to take charge of my moods. Moods drift from one person to another via slight, unconscious and unintentional signals, such as facial expression, posture or tone of voice. Just seeing someone express an emotion can evoke that mood in you. Understanding the contagious nature of emotions can help you screen out unwanted moods. Respect your rhythms. Your mood varies throughout the day, based on shifting levels of energy and tension. Schedule your most important tasks in your “peak” or high energy times. For example, I’m a morning person . I do my writing, if not schedule important meeting...

Brainstorming is one strategy for something creative to come into fruition, Write all ideas, the good , the bad, the ridiculous and funny ones. Scrutinize. You can do self-quizzing to come up with a solution to a problem, a wonderful product etc. Here are a list of questions to creatively spur you to open the floodgates of streaming ideas. -Other uses. Is there a new way to use this? -Borrow or adapt. What other ideas might be adaptable? -New twist. What other shape? -More so. Increase strength. Ex. Extra strong beer. -Substitutes. What replaces? -Less so. Eliminate? Ex. Antenna –less mobile phones -Rearrange. Transpose cause and effect. -Reverse. Do the opposite. -Combine. Combine purpose. Ex. Benjamin Franklin dislikes switching eyeglasses so he invented the bifocals.

When you have finished an exercise, there’s ultimately a feeling of exhilaration of the knowledge that you have achieve something. In order to get that peak experience in every workout you have to: -Develop total Concentration. Learn to focus your eyes on one point during an exercise and stay aware of how the muscle feels performing each exercise. -Breathe properly for concentration. Use gentle abdominal breathing to relax your body and deep full thoracic breathes to focus your energies before an exercise. -Focus your mind. Count repetitions to yourself, to help focus your mind and increase your power of concentration. -Stay in the moment. Don’t let your thoughts wander to any other time or place. Be here and now. Be one with the iron. -Learn to relax. To develop total intensity, you need to learn to relax. Tensing your whole body is counter-productive. It simply drains you of energy. Always feel free to leave out a set, decrease the poundage or slow down your cardiovascular routine. F...

Champions , winners , spiritual millionaires and go getters are just a few terms we tag successful people in pursuit of excellence in their professions. Be it in art, sports, politics or business endeavor they belong to the top echelon of the society. They display distinct set of qualities that separates them from the mediocre lot. What are these qualities? So that we can emulate those enviable characteristics and apply it in our own circumstances. -They move forward in anyway they can. They find the arena that interests them and via hard work they create their own breaks and opportunities. By doing so they generate their own luck. -They get going. They start in the smallest way by becoming educated or trained. Then they will take any job that will eventually give them the experience they need. Because they work more and procrastinate less they prosper, They know that talent is ninety-nine per cent perspiration. -They get to work right now. They have little time for agonizing ab...

Don’t you feel how frustrating it is working out religiously but you can’t seem to make any visible progress? Many months into your weight training programs you can’t see any changes in your muscle and fitness? That particular occurrence is called plateau. The secret to get over your exercise plateau is muscle confusion. Professional bodybuilders use this technique every time they reach plateau. And so they never have trouble in their bodybuilding programs. Muscle confusion is a technique to varying your workout routine, to keep your muscle guessing and thus spur growth and definition. Here are some ways to do muscle confusion: -Change the order of exercises. -Change the repetitions and the weights. Ex. High reps with light weights, medium-medium combo, low reps with heavy weights. -Change the length of rest intervals between sets. -Vary the tempo of exercises and length of rest intervals within a routine. -Pyramid some of your movements. -Do descending sets on others. -Superset, trise...

Charting your course toward a better job or promotion will involve how to acquire the requisite skills and knowing how to sell your talents. These steps tell you how to get that one position to the next but also how to get from one profession to the next. -Be a good presenter. Learn to acquire a compelling voice, learn to enunciate clearly and project enthusiasm. Practice. Presenting is theater. Act it out, persuade, not impartial or solemn. Join speaking club like toastmasters . Scan the yellow pages and check out voice teachers and take lessons. Enroll in an acting class. -Write well. Short, clear, crisp sentences. No spelling mistakes. Good grammar. Never dictate. Always edit or rewrite. Persuasive writing is always conversational in style, not academics. Just like you are talking casually to a friend at a dinner table. -A talent for ideas. Read everything. Learn to read fast and digest them. Keep up with trade journals that your bosses read. Regularly check out best seller li...

I’ve combed through a library of inspirational and motivational books. I tried to uncover secrets of successful people. I thought there must be a specific strategy,a technique, an insider’s secret in order to have the life you want, to achieve your dreams. But guess what? All the books I have bought, borrowed and read all say the same thing. And that is, there are no quick fix, magic pill or potion to achieving whatever we set out to do like, reaching a career goal, losing weight or improve our relationships. Anything worth achieving is available through intelligent and diligent hard work to anyone who is willing to apply his mind, body and spirit toward the life he or she wants. We live in a ready mixed society. We have come to expect gratification immediately and we look for possible shortcuts in our undertaking. But if you want to master yourself and be the best that you can be, you must be able to surrender completely to the demand of the quest. Personal mastery takes continual pra...

Are you not in awe watching people who do their work so excellently? Don’t you feel goosebumps when you imagine Michael Jordan’s innovative style of playing basketball? How about Michael Jackson’s signature dance move the moonwalk? Don’t you ever wonder how J.K. Rowling wrote such an engaging and riveting series of best selling books? These aforementioned names of celebrities are people who do their jobs very, very well at extraordinary level. They have style and smooth flow. Just like a true master skier, who became one with their skis, the mountain and the snow. He loses himself in skiing as a master dancer loses himself in the dance. The effort disappears and what is left is the experience of effortlessness. I speak not only of highly glamourous people but also the “everday people”. The plumbers, carpenters, bakers etc. who do their work with such ease and economy of movement. When we sit back and marvel at the success of others in their area of expertise we should remember that th...

For every situation in life, we all have a choice. Either we approach it negatively or positively. It doesn’t matter if we have stress in our lives. Everyone does. It is how we see it and how we deal with it that makes the difference. Anxiety, depression and panic attacks are all physical manifestations if we worry and expect the worst. We may not able to change immediately the circumstances in our lives that cause us distress but we can consciously choose to manage these situations in such a a way that they don’t control us any longer. We should start looking at the stressful situations and learn more positive ways in dealing with them. If we expect good things to happen, learn relaxation techniques and start exercising then stress will become manageable. World war 2 fighter pilots left a treasured task like a good book or letter from a loved one half read before they went off on a mission. Just to have a positive expectation and they will be eager to face the enemy, survive and com...

We are happy when we’re thinking good things and we are unhappy when we are thinking bad things. Our thoughts or what we choose to think about is determined entirely by what you think and what you think is up to you. You can be destitute, alone, living in a cardboard box and still be deliriously happy if you choose to be. If you are looking for someone else to make you happy ,to give your life meaning, to make your life complete then you are doing things like almost the rest of the world do. And that doesn’t mean its always right. It’s this Hollywood hogwash likes to dish out. We complete ourselves first. We make ourselves happy first. When we achieve that aura of happiness, it’s only a matter of time someone will pick out the vibes we exude. Thus become fascinated, intrigued and naturally drawn to us. They want to try to get some of that happiness for themselves. Spend a few weeks reviewing your list and retraining your mind. Spend five minutes during the morning when you get up, at l...

One screenwriter once said “ Don’t go to writing school, they weed out the eccentric impulses within you.’ He emphatically exhorts not to mimic what’s celebrated but surpassing it. Here are practical ways to get that writing habit: 1. Determined which are your most alert hours and put all them aside for writing. Plant yourself in front of your computer or your writing tools and spend as much time as you can there. If you miss a day, get back to work the next. 2. Carry a notebook at all times, anything might be material. Jot down initial inspirations; whatever excites your imagination. 3. Know you subject; don’t skimp on the research. 4. Brush up on your grammar , vocabulary and spelling. 5. It’s best to write the way you talk and think, don’t strain for an effect. 6. Respect your readers. Snag their interest as quickly as possible preferably with the first sentence. 7. Spend time organizing your thoughts. Use sentences, paragraphs, chapters like building blocks. 8. Expand, cut, polish,...

Good Conversation Starters Here’s how to dazzle anyone with your witty verbal skills. You don’t have to look anywhere to find good conversation starters. Here are guaranteed icebreaker questions for practically anyone you’ll want to meet. How To Talk To Anyone About Anything By Leil Lowndes Actors and Actresses Remember you are dealing with an ego that is constantly being bruised by agents, producers and insensitive relatives who don’t recognize true genius when they see it. Begin with: >How did you prepare for that role? When you decide you want deep communication with the rising star, let her regale you with stories about her “craft”. Ask her who she “studies under” and what “techniques” she uses. Architects Ever wonder where the saying “ well back to the drawing board” comes from? Young architects dream of creating the ultimate structure, but many compromises later, frustration often overwhelms their ambitions. Begin with: > What’s the size of your office? Firm is acceptable, ...