“Aim for your star, no matter how far, you must reach high above and touch your life with love, you must never look back, but charge on! Attack! See your goal your star of desire, see it red hot, feel it burning, you must be obsessed with it to make it your true yearning, be ready my friends for when you truly believe it, you will certainly achieve it and by all of God’s universal laws you will always receive it!”
Bob Smith
(American editor, author, founder of Orison Swett Marden Foundation)

Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present situation? Do you want to become a better and more beautiful person than you are today? Do you want weight loss, or an end to food obsession? How about inner peace?

Yes, you can have what you want! Of course you can. But accomplishing your goals while at the same time feeling inner peace means doing things differently than you’ve done them before. For example, if you been on every diet in the world and they haven’t worked, what makes you think the next diet is going to be the answer? The diet isn’t the problem. And there is immense beauty in the goal of what you wish to create. What might be out of alignment is how you are setting about reaching your goal. For today’s insight, I would like to boil down the new process to one word: Excitement.

Feeling excited about your goal, right now, is what is needed. Complaining about your situation doesn’t help you achieve success. Justifying your situation doesn’t help you achieve success. Blaming someone, or blaming yourself, doesn’t allow you to achieve success. Neither does feeling guilty, angry, depressed or sad. Instead, feeling excitement about achieving your goal is the ticket to success. Below are six new ways to think about Aiming For Your Star while creating what you want with Excitement:

1. You can have what you want, but it’s probably not going to happen instantaneously. So step number one would be acceptance. Accept where you are right now. Look in the mirror and give up the fight. Acceptance says, “Yes, this is where I’m at right now. I created this situation, this body, with my own thoughts and actions. I accept responsibility. Accepting responsibility means I stand proud in every decision I’ve made up until this point. I no longer beat myself up for mistakes made in the past, or mistakes made one minute ago. I breathe, accept, release and relax. I support myself in my creation of my body. I am free in this moment to love who I am, to love this body, to love my decisions, and to make new ones.”

2. Achieving your goal is going to take some effort. The biggest effort involved? Learning to get excited about what is wanted. Excited effort directed FOR what you want. Even when you “re-lapse”, especially when you “re-lapse,” learn to get excited again. Quickly. Dwelling on your failure, flogging yourself with criticism, and feeling dark isn’t going to help you one bit. When you fall short of your expectations and realize that what you wanted to happen didn’t, re-group and get excited again. Let go of old oppressive thoughts and actions where you tell yourself you’ve already blown it so the day is completely shot. No it’s not! Get excited!! Find a way to elevate yourself. Take a higher road. Look in the mirror into your own eyes. Tell yourself, oops! You still love yourself. The world didn’t end. You don’t have to wait until Monday to begin your path again. Rally your inner power when at your lowest points by getting excited again about what you want. Direct your efforts towards being in vibrational alignment with what you want. Nothing in the universe can prevent a man or a woman who wants to know Love – who wants to rise to the next level – from reaching it, because the entire universe is set up for the purpose of realizing this intention.

3. Let yourself dream. Dream big or just begin small. It doesn’t matter. For your life to work on the high level that you say you want it too, there’s no getting around doing the work it takes to get there. And the most important work . . . taking the time to dream. Start dreaming! It’s possible to have what you want! You can become the person you have always wanted to be! If you don’t dream it, no one else will. The very act of dreaming about what you want puts your attention on it. Now just add a little excitement and watch what begins to show up.

4. Set up your life to support your dream. This involves some action. Inspired action that serves to make you feel good and acknowledges your feeling good. Use your journal and write down your goal each day. Add colors and stars and stickers! Make the time to sit with your dream and feel it alive in your body. Allow yourself to feel how exciting it is to already have what you want. Create a dream board and cover it with pictures, symbols, and words of what you want. Look at it for 5 or 10 minutes when you first get up and again before you go to bed at night. Keep a nightly list of the action steps you took on your dream. Acknowledge the steps you are taking, no matter how teeny-tiny. It doesn’t matter. A step is a step. And success builds on success. What does matter is you decided to feel good about creating what you want.

5. Focus more on your desire than on your doubt. How do you do this? Make a decision. Decide that once an hour, for ten seconds, you are going to fill your mind and body with the excitement of your desire. Decide that each time you notice your doubt, you will stop and fill yourself with your desire. Say no to feeling bad. Allow yourself to enjoy the process of creating what you want. The feeling good happens now, in this moment, because you allow yourself to feel good. It does not magically appear at the end of your goal. Enjoy the process and the journey of achieving your goal.

6. Provide lots of positive, inspiring, uplifting, fun, excited self-talk. Don’t worry that you haven’t yet reached your goal. Or that you haven’t even started your goal. Or that you’ve got tons of evidence supporting why you can’t have what you want. Let go of perfectionism which is really just inner criticism that what you’ve done just isn’t good enough. Decide you are good enough to have what you want and decide you can feel good in the process. You think you are supposed to hurt and feel sad and angry each time you make a mistake. But what gift does that give you? How does that help your future and your life? It does not. Choose thoughts that uplift, encourage and bring joy. Allow feeling good to flow into your body on a regular basis.

Create from your heart and not so much from your head!

Copyright 2005, Dr. Annette Colby, all rights reserved.

Dr. Annette Colby, RD
Nutrition Therapist & Master Energy Healer
For free inspirational newsletter, articles & info visit:
http://www.LovingMiracles.com
Annette@AnnetteColby.com
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Opening Creative Portals to Success”

Along the path from where you are now to millions in revenue, thousands in readers, tens of thousands of prospects, or hundreds of clients — whatever criteria you use to define success for your coaching…there us is one key speedbump which is seldom talked about.

That is capacity.

This is especially true as your revenues grow up to six figures and you set your sights on building a seven-figure legacy business with a global impact.

How do you get your head around this problem? What secrets will ease your way through the growing pains?

In all the many thousands of hours of consulting, coaching and training I’ve done, there is only one key I’ve found to date that doesn’t require significant cash investment. And that is the concept of apprentices.

Several years ago I was one of those apprentices.

I’d been running my own recruitment business for some time, and had become disgruntled by putting great people into heirarchical organizations that stifled creativity and disregarded the whole person.

I decided to take a sabbatical and paid for supplies to begin volunteering with the Coaching Scoop’s Real Interviews project for Steve Davis and Thomas Leonard of CoachVille.

Some might say I had found myself a real winner of an apprenticeship program.

I tell you this story for two reasons.

(1) You may find yourself wishing for an apprenticeship for yourself, from time to time. It’s a great way to move quickly into new areas by finding a mentor who will trade you a lifetime of wisdom for your legwork.

(2) Regardless of where you think you ‘are’ in your work, you are ready for an apprentice. Because the benefits of an apprentice are in fact much greater to you than just the added pair of willing hands.

What you teach, you become.

And what you teach, also becomes your legacy.

As you mentor your apprentices, there is a point at which they become your proteges.

This is a tipping point that occurs when the apprentice graduates from learning to creating.

A few things to bear in mind as you prepare for apprentices:

(1) Don’t change what you do.

Design the apprentice relationships so that it doesn’t disrupt your productivity. Allow your apprentice to come into your existing set up. The key at the beginning is to increase your capacity, not add capacity.

Your apprentice is someone you invite to your house without cleaning up first. Soon enough, they’ll be helping you tidy things.

(2) Pick certain people for your apprentices. There are two main criteria.

You must like and respect them.

They should be entrepreneurially minded, meaning either they have run a business of their own OR they were brought up by familiy who did.

The latter covers just about every other characteristic you could want: loyalty, hard work, a sense of urgency, and a problem solving orientation.

(3) Use technology and systems to support the addition of new people to your business.

The most basic and essential way to induct an apprentice is to set up a system of shadowing. The simplest way is to set up your email so that a copy gets sent to your apprentice.

That’s a natural part of the selection process because the apprentice – mentor relationship can rely quite a bit on personal chemistry and whether or not the visions align.

Andrea J. Lee coaches entrepreneurs and online business owners. As Thomas J. Leonard’s General Manager, she helped build and manage the largest network and trainer of personal and business coaches in the world. Now the CEO of Andrea J. Lee Group of Companies, she writes, speaks and consults on Marketing, Internet and Business systems. This is an excerpt from the her NEW BOOK – Multiple Streams of Coaching Income, http://www.multiplestreamsofcoachingincome.com

Remember the days when we wrote with pen and paper? We took time and thought into each note written. There wasn’t email, text messaging, cell phones, or instant messaging. Don’t get me wrong these advances are great and useful. I have even succumbed to their wiles.

I just remember as a little girl waiting for the postal carrier. I wasn’t expecting anything in particular but each day I anticipated his arrivalhoping that I’d receive a letter-note-giftsomething. It really didn’t matter what it was I just enjoyed receiving.

Sometimes I would write my grandmother who lived nearly 2,000 miles away. Oh how I would love receiving letters from herdetailing her duties and adventures on the farm. I still have some of those letters in my memory box. These are all I have of her memory now but they are a priceless treasure I can open anytime I need to get that “love rush” from my grandmother.

Another memory that comes to mind is that of a Sunday School teacher. I don’t even remember her name, but I do remember the feeling of joy I got every time I received one of her postcards. Even though she lived only 2 blocks away, she thought enough of me each week, to hand write a small note on a postcard to say Hi, or to remind me of some Bible Lesson.

The written letter is how I came to know my husband. During my college days I moved near my grandmother, 2,000 miles away from my “friend”. He wrote me and I wrote him back. I’m not exactly sure when it happened but love struck the two of us. After one year of letters back and forth, we were married. I am proud to say that we have been married now for 11 years.

I know there isn’t anything magical about a pen and paperit’s the people behind the pen and paper that made my memories so sweet. In my own simple way I guess I am trying to provoke people to “live” again. Step outside, say hi to your neighbor. Pick up a packet of note cards and send them to friends, family, and even co-workers. They will appreciate it.

To my grandmotherthe letter writing queenand to my childhood Sunday School teacher where ever you areThank You for taking the time to touch a little girls life.

I beseech you nowsend someone a note today–Not an electronic lifeless piece of mail but a living letter or note. It could be as simple as a postcard or as detailed as a letter, whatever it is, put your heart into it and you’ll be sure to bless a soul for a lifetime.

©2005

Sara Duggan and her family live in California. She likes to crochet and write in her spare time. For more articles and fun activities visit http://www.mommie-care.com

Many writers struggle with the decision of whether or not to write “for free” – however – unless you are a wealthy, professionally published author – I believe there are many advantages to writing articles and offering them for free publication online.

Writers can truly benefit from submitting their articles to online databases for publishers to view and perhaps choose to publish in their newsletters or on their websites (for free).

Below is my list of the top ten reasons you should write articles and allow them to be published for free online.

The first, most obvious benefit to you as a writer, is the opportunity to get your work published.

The second reason is FREE PUBLICITY! – Most article databases online allow you to include a “resource box” at the end of your article. See
Part Two

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art12838.asp

for an index of lists and web sites where you can submit your articles for free publication.

The resource box is your opportunity to SELL yourself, your web site, your products, your services etc… Below is an example of a resource box:

Resource Box – © Danielle Hollister (2004)
Danielle Hollister is the Writing Host at BellaOnline
http://www.bellaonline.com/site/writing
and Publisher of BellaOnline’s Writing Zine
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art157.asp
to subscribe send email to:
bellaonlinewriting-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

By writing articles for free publication on a specific topic, you can establish yourself as an expert in that field.

By submitting your work to article databases and allowing newsletters and web sites to publish it for free, you multiply the potential number of visitors to your site dramatically.

(For example: If you write an article and publish it on your website or submit to a paying publication (and it’s accepted) – the only people who will see you work and/or visit your web site are either the people who already visit your website and/or the people who subscribe to the publication that prints your article. Where as, if you write an article and more than one newsletter and/or website publishes it, the chances are very good that a significantly larger number of readers will read and/or come to your website.)

There are literally thousands of newsletters publishers online – all looking for one thing – GREAT CONTENT. Your article(s) (if written well and about a popular subject) are definitely in demand.

It costs you nothing – not a dime – to submit your articles to databases for free publication online. The only thing that’s required of you is your time (and your ability to write a good article that people will want to read).
Think about it – is there any other FREE way for writers to get published, recognized and publicized online?

There are two ways to submit your work for possible publication by websites/newsletters that are seeking submissions from writers for free publication. You can join and distribute your work via announcement lists or submit your articles to online databases.

You can also target your audience by submitting your articles to individual ezines. Prior to making individual submissions consider these two quick tips:

Locate ezine publishers that ACCEPT article submissions

Find out what the publisher’s guidelines are for article submissions. You can easily access a list of prospective ezine publishers by visiting my new subtopic Ezine – Newsletter Directories.

By listing your work in article databases and/or submitting it directly to ezine publishers, you have the opportunity to establish new contacts and lasting relationships with professional publishers online.
Once publishers choose your articles for publication, they usually contact you via email to let you know when your work will be published in their publication (with a link to their web site). Their notification email to you will frequently include an invitation to submit more articles to their publication. (And if they do not directly invite you to contribute, they have still provided with their URL – which allows you to take the initiative to view their publication and consider possible future submissions.)

By getting your articles published online, you have opened the door for more traffic to your web site, new readers (possibly paying publishers and/or agents looking for good writers in a specific field), and name recognition across the web. Although writing articles for free publication does not pay you directly, it does provide the potential for earning money via product/class/service sales on your website.

© Danielle Hollister (2004) is the Publisher of the Free Ezine for Writers featuring news, reviews, and continuously updated links to the best resources for writers online like – freelancing & jobs, markets & publishers, literary agents, classes & contests, and more… Read it online at – http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art157.asp

Being a creative writer has never been easy. From learning
the craft, to practicing it, to selling your work.

But that enthusiasm we felt sparked into passion as we got
more involved in it and it continues to ignite us through the long
and hard road of getting published.

We are ready to make money from our writing. And it stands
to reason that we should. We have already perfected our profession.
Shouldn’t the money follow?

It doesn’t because being a good writer does not guarantee a
publisher will notice you. So as the rejection letters begin piling
up you begin to question whether being a writer was actually a
good idea or should you have hit yourself over the head.

Being a writer is the most wonderful thing. And there isn’t just
one road to success.

If you are submitting your work to publishers and getting nowhere
all you have to do is one thing. Change your mind.

Stop and think for a moment. You write. The product is yours.
So why do you need someone to sell it for you? Why do you
need to perfect those dreaded query letters just to get noticed?
And why do you have to suffer for your art?

Because the only way you can sell it is through publishers?

Wrong. Very wrong.

Put in the same amount of hard work you are putting in submitting
to publishers and actually get somewhere in your life.

The truth is writes have had a gut full of the whole publishing process…

o We can’t write what we want but have to cater to markets
o We have to make further changes when requested by publishers
o The amounts we get paid never justify the work put in

It is any wonder then that writes are becoming independent? They realize
their product is theirs so they don’t need anyone to sell it for them.
And most of all? They don’t need to suffer anymore.

So they put in all their effort to create their own business and sell
that product on the internet.

And know what? They make it.

The internet is an uncut diamond that we can shape into a fine jewel.
The audience is wide and it just asks something from you.

Be unique. Me-too’s don’t’ get anywhere on the net. This is where
readers turn for something different. Are you different?
Are you daring? Do you not beat to anyone’s drum but your own?

A business on the net is ideal for you.

I’m not talking about submitting your work to e-publishers.
I’ll taking about building a website and selling your work
straight from there.

Become your own boss because you can. Be the free spirit you always
wanted to be. Writers are known for their uniqueness. Don’t mould
your style to suite anyone. Unleash your creativity now because the
opportunity is out there waiting for you.

Take it and make a difference.

Writers have made their own success stories.

Do you want to make yours?

About the Author

Georgina Stath is a creative writer who took matters into her own
hands. She runs her own business. She writes what she wants. She keeps
all the profits. You can do it too. Just change your mind.
Join the ‘Entrepreneur Creative Writer’s Course To Success.’ It’s free
and highly informative. Send a blank email to
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What Is The Three Act Structure?

By Patrick Dent Dent Publishing Independent Writers – Independent Fiction

As the craft of writing has evolved, it has naturally formed the plot structure most pleasant to the human mind. This is the Three Act Structure, and it applies to short stories, novels and screenplays alike. What follows is the general flow of the Three Act Structure.

ACT ONE – The Setup

In Act One the protagonist meets all of the characters in the story. We also learn the main problem of the story. Everybody can usually plot Act One because we have to know the problem to have the idea. The trick in Act One is to keep it interesting. Don’t just start rolling out story points. Start at the most interesting point, where there is conflict and excitement, and help the audience sort it out. Act One is a preparation act for the viewer or reader. This is where they learn about the central character – whether they like him, whether they care about him, and whether they care about his dilemma. The protagonist may be the hero or the villain, depending on whose story is more interesting, whose story drives the plot forward. You should open Act One with a bang. Don’t start at “Once upon a time.” Open with a hook. By the end of Act One you should also have introduced the protagonist, the antagonist and set up all of the secondary character relationships.

Here are some general guidelines for the objectives of Act One. 1.Establish the status quo for the protagonist. 2.Present the initial impetus for a move or change by the protagonist. 3.Ask the central question of the book. Summarize your book in 25 words or less and you will find the central question of your book. 4.Define the wants of the major characters and their reasons for desiring these things. 5.Lay the groundwork and establish the stakes for the chase to occur in Act 2.

ACT TWO – The Chase

This is the most important act in the drama because you have the two most important structural moves in the story. 1.It complicates the initial problem. 2.It defeats the protagonist at its end.

The complication usually comes at the top of Act Two. The problem that we already set up in Act One, now has to become much more dangerous and difficult. A good way to design the complication is to let it be a piece of the back-story that has remained hidden until Act Two. The protagonist must then start to try to solve this bigger, more complicated problem, while the adversaries make moves to defeat them. Your adversaries must be in motion. Adversaries should not be standing around, waiting to be caught. The end of Act Two marks the destruction of the protagonist’s plan. At the end of Act Two the protagonist should be almost destroyed, and at the lowest point in the drama, either physically and/or emotionally. He (or she) is flat on his back and it looks like there is no way he can succeed.

Here are some general guidelines for the objectives of Act Two. 1.The protagonist behaves differently, more assertive 2.The protagonist tries to do the right thing, but is foiled by the antagonist three times. These are called reversals. Think of any story and spot the reversals. The overall conflict has three reversals and one conclusion. 3.Use the information presented in Act One. This is the groundwork we discussed during Act One. Objects and facts that appeared in the background of Act One now take on new meanings significant to the plot. 4.Make the chase unpredictable, stimulating, engaging and unique. 5.Rely heavily on physical action. 6.Put the characters in interesting situations and locations, ensuring those situations and locations relate to the hero’s intent.

ACT THREE

This is simply the resolution of the problem. From the rubble laying around him/her, the protagonist picks up a piece of string and follows it to the eventual conclusion of the story. Some stories have downbeat endings, where the protagonist learns a lesson, but dies or is defeated. Of course, there is no precise formula for success. It is always possible to alter this Three Act Structure, but remember, if you break these plot rules, you should at least know why you are doing it.

Here are some general guidelines for the objectives of Act Three. 1.Answer the central question of the book. 2.Fulfill all the promises made in Acts One and Two. 3.Answer all questions asked in Acts One and Two – no loose ends. 4.The protagonist must undergo a change to conquer a larger version of something that conquered him during Act 1.

For more information on writing and selling fiction, please visit www.dent-publishing.com and go to For Authors, where we have a free, 8-segment tutorial on the craft of writing and a five segment series on internet marketing – both free.

Patrick Dent Dent Publishing Independent Writers – Independent Fiction Featuring our new, covert ops thriller, Execution of Justice www.dent-publishing.com Bookstore@dent-publishing.com

A link can be understood as a recommendation from one web site to another, but you have to be recommended by pertinent web sites, to be sure you will get the expected results after implementing a wise linking program.

As a football player cannot give the best advice recommending an auto-parts provider in Singapore, a web site that sells discounted plasma TV’s won’t get any advantage by being linked from a lawyers’ firm site.

The first question we need to ask ourselves when thinking about creating a links program is “why do we need to do it?” and the answer is simple as “the more relevant and quality links pointing to your web site, the faster it will be ranked on better positions”.

Then there are several questions that pop up in our minds spontaneously like “to whom may I link to”, “and who should link to me?”, “how many links can I have?” and others. To solve those inquiries I’ve written the following linking basics:

1. We always have to search for themed links. As said at the introduction, there’s no chance to succeed with links coming from non-related web sites or links farms, moreover, your site can be banned if it’s related or work as a links farm.
2. Having more links than our competitors is not an indication of success. Search Engines qualify links by their quality and not by weight.
3. Reciprocal Links vs. One Way Links.

   A reciprocal link is easier to get as you exchange links with other (themed) sites to acquire better popularity, which is a good deal for both parties… a good but weak deal. Each time Search Engines algorithms give lower importance to swapped links.
   Quality one way links (inbound links) are recognized as more valuable by Search Engines and give higher relevancy if you have links pointing to your site instead of exchanged links.

4. Themed and Authority Links

   Themed links are those from business related sites and are the most suitable to link to you or vice versa. A good example of a themed link is a vacation review site with a link to the web site of a resort in Aruba.

   Authority sites are those with a very high raking (Google Page Rank 8-10) and because of its importance can send a link to a web site even if there is no match helping the linked site, as for example a news site linking to an online MP3 players store.

5. Find the correct web sites

   We want to focus our efforts on relevant incoming links, so to do that while earning time, you can search for those web sites that are linking to your top positioned competitors for your main keywords, then study how relevant they really are to your web site, and depending on what kind of site they are (informative, directory, business review, newspaper, etc), you can either submit your information for free or pay a monthly/yearly fee to get a one way link to your web site into their pages, depending on their policies.

6. Being consequent with your optimization process, you should create a good copy for each link to be implemented, including the desired landing page and the linked text. Directories allow you to add descriptions but if you are buying a link from a themed web site you may not be able to describe your site and simply add the optimized linked text and destiny URL.
7. While selecting a site to place a link (more important if you are buying it) you have to take into consideration the quality of the web site, their ranking at the Search Engines (At Google look the Page Rank parameter) as well as their content, to be sure it is appropriate for your business.

   Other factor that you have to look at is their own inbound links quantity and quality, identically as previously researched on your competitors’ sites.

8. When acquiring (exchanging or buying links) a deal known as a “links package”, even if they are quality and themed ones, make sure their IP’s are different to maximize the results.

   If they have the same IP, Search Engines can count them as a single source.

9. The less outbound links the site that links to you have, the most efficiently your site will get improved. When buying, you can ask how many links are being sold from that specific web site/page.

Search Engines algorithms won’t stop changing their parameters, but one thing that is clear is that receiving optimized text links from quality web sites will always help improving our rankings.

Mr. Daniel Katz is the Business Development Manager at Compucall Web Marketing Ltd – experts in International Web Marketing and Marketing Strategies.

Tips To Lose Weight – Escape From Excessive Fat

Are you trying to gain escapade from constant obesity and failing continuously? Are you getting angry and depressed for not losing weight effectively? Do not worry. With proper tips to lose weight you can easily get some serious effects. When you are emotional you automatically start eating more food, which tend to make you gain more weight. You can get emotional anytime and start eating a lot. So start losing weight so that you can enjoy perfect health and fit body.

Weight loss methods

Creating a weight loss plan does not simply mean eating less food. On the other hand, it means consuming dietary food that enhances physical fitness and improves your health considerably. A healthy body can turn us into a better human being so you should at anytime treat yourself with excellent weight loss plans and techniques. Weight loss can include weight loss surgeries, taking dietary pills, natural methods like walking, talking and exercising, performing aerobics, and eating normal diet at regular intervals.

Tips to lose weight in less time

Tips to lose weight do not make you slim and fit for less time. Proper losing weight tips help you to become slim easily and remain the same for long time. You should continue with your healthy diet and do regular exercises to maintain your weight loss. Following are the tips to lose weight:  Reduce calories-in and increase calories-out by taking dietary food.  Go for regular morning and evening walks, eat slowly and practice regular exercises to lose weight.  Eat three sensible meals at regular times and skip high-fat and high-calorie food anytime.  Eat more of vegetables, salads, fruits and soup than solid food.  Eat less of snacks.  Eat slowly specially when you are having chocolates, cookies, chips and ice creams.  Visit gyms or simply stay at home and lift weights for that will burn down your calories.  Have noni juice, which is a natural fruit juice and helps in reducing weight, decreasing severe obesity, enhances glow in your skin and diminishes stress.  Eat only when you are hungry.  Try to eat less at restaurants, hotels and outside places and eat more at home.  When you are having food include at least one non-starchy fruit and enough of vegetable stew to remain fit yet slim.  Try to have whole grains instead of refined grains for whole grains are more nutritious, healthy and satisfying.  Instead of sugar-sweetened drinks, use a latte with nonfat or low-fat milk.  Get plenty of sleep as sleep decreases hormone levels of cortisol and insulin, which allow more of fat storage.  Drink at least two quarts of water daily and omit items like butter, jam, sour cream, syrup, salt, sugar, salad dressings, French fries and soft drinks from your diet.

Weight loss surgery methods

You can also lose weight very fast with the help of weight loss surgery methods. Following are the weight loss surgery methods that make you slim overnight:  Stomach ballooning – a balloon is inserted into your stomach and inflated with water. The balloon is kept there for a convenient six months and then removed so that you become slim easily.  Liposuction – a substance is introduced into the fatty areas, a tube is inserted and fat is conveniently sucked out from the fatty place.  Gastric bypass – in this surgery the digestive system is completely transformed into a shape that can limit the amount of food intake.

Tips to lose weight not only makes you slim but also impart absolute inner happiness to all.

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I’m going to reveal a lead-generation selling formula, you can make a fistul of dollars with.

It’s a lot of fun to use, but it’s often over-looked.

Want to know what it is?

O.K., I’ll tell you. It’s…

Sweepstakes!

And here’s how you can start using sweepstakes as a lead generation tool, to build your list of prospects:

Let’s say you own a retail furniture store. Here’s what you do:

You run a display ad (or even better yet, you use several press releases) that says you’re going to be giving away a brand new set of living-room furniture valued at $10,000 Dollars, delivered to the person who comes into your store… registers for the contest… and comes closest to guessing how many square feet your entire furniture showroom display area is.

The person who guesses closest, gets the furniture delivered straight to the front door of their home.

You should film that entire delivery, by the way, and have that video clip playing on a television monitor over-and-over again at the front of your store, to build enthusiasm up for your next sweepstakes.

Also, if you’re really clever… team up with a local interior decorator and tell people you’ll be giving away a professionally designed custom layout as well, courtesy of this interior decorator.

Let your sweepstakes entrants know, the charge for the interior designer alone is worth “X” dollars.

Or, you could even team up with one of your furniture suppliers, and instead of having a “Guess how many square feet our showroom is” contest, you can have a “Tell me how many king size [insert your furniture supplier's name here] beds we have in our showroom” contest.

See which of your suppliers would be willing to share the cost of your contest with you, or maybe they’d spring for the whole shebang.

Anyway, you call your lead-generating contest:

“The $10,000 Dollar Sweepstakes!”

Then, you promote the living daylights out of it!

You do a direct mail piece promoting it (postcards may even work in this case)… use your local val-paks… run display ads… have banners announcing your sweepstakes all over your store… and you give every single interior decorator and moving company you know, brochures about it, to hand out to their clients.

This does 3 things for you:

First, it gets people interested in you.

Second, it forces people to come into your store to sign up and register to win the sweepstakes. You automatically get foot-traffic, and the names and addresses of qualified leads, you wouldn’t have had without the sweepstakes.

And third, since your prospects have to guess how large your showroom is, it forces them to walk around your entire store in order to make any kind of accurate “square footage” guess, right? And do you have any idea what each-and-every one of these qualified leads will be doing when they’re browsing up and down each of your lovely furniture showroom aisles?

They’ll be checking out all your furniture!

Mom’s will be thinking “Oh, this would look so nice in the baby’s room.”

And seniors will be saying “Wow, that would look great outside on our patio.”

And crooked CEO’s like Ken Lay from Enron will be licking their chops, saying “Hey, I can use a bunch of my shareholder’s money to buy all those brand new top-of-the-line Herman Miller chairs, for all the guys back at the office!”

Whatever.

The point is, people aren’t just going to come in, see your “$10,000 Dollar Sweepstakes” sign-up booth at the front desk, fill out the form, toss their entry into the box, and then leave.

Now at first blush, you might think giving away $10,000 Dollars worth of furniture is a lot to give away for FREE.

But au contraire… let’s look at the numbers here. Remember, before you ever make any kinds of marketing decisions, you must look at your numbers.

Because…

You are in the numbers business first, NOT… the marketing business!

So… here are some numbers:

Let’s say, over a 90-day period, you get 1,500 people to sign up. That’s an average of 17 people a day, which… between you and your interior decorator, and maybe a local moving company (who will do the delivery)… should be very do-able, especially with all the “weekend” traffic, furniture stores tend to attract.

(Oh, and by the way — depending on the sweepstakes rules in your state, you may even be able to say up front “This sweepstakes is only valid if we receive 2,000 entries.”, or whatever numbers work for you.)

And… let’s say your average customer sale is $1,000 dollars.

This means, you’ll need to make 10 sales to at least break even on the deal — now. Plus, whatever it costs you to promote your sweepstakes, so… let’s say you need to make 12 sales to make this promotion break even.

What you have to ask yourself, is… will you make 12 sales, to the 1,500 people who’ve come into your store and signed up for your sweepstakes?

That’s one sale, to every 125 people who come sauntering through your front doors.

Can you do this?

Honestly, I don’t know.

It depends on what your conversion ratio of prospects-to-customers is. Meaning, how many of your prospects, do you actually convert into paying customers?

But at least, now you have a working formula to use, so you can figure out what numbers you need, to make this sweepstakes of yours work!

Plus remember… you’re using this sweepstakes to generate leads for future sales, not for making sales today, right?

So what you also have to take into consideration, is…

How many sales will you make over the next 12 months, by sending out a monthly marketing piece to all these 1,500 qualified new leads you’ve now got?

After all, isn’t that what you’re supposed to be doing with your qualified leads, anyway?

And this translates into, “Will you be able to make a sale to 1 out of every 125 people who came through your doors, sometime during the next 12 months?”

Well, even if you’re only a halfway decent copywriter… as long as you’re consistently making these prospects a compelling offer each-and-every-month…

You Should Be Able To Do That!

Sweepstakes are especially good for retail stores, since they seem to have a hard time building their prospect list up.

It’s tough to get people’s name and address when they come in your store, especially if they’re just browsing and they don’t buy anything.

And why are sweepstakes so effective at generating qualified leads for you?

The answer is simple: For the most part, people don’t go out of their way to enter sweepstakes for items they don’t want, or wouldn’t buy at some point in time, on their own.

And really, almost any business can run a sweepstakes.

Like if you’re a hotel, raffle off an overnight stay in one of your better rooms. Then you do the same thing the furniture store owner did — you make a consistent offer to each and every person who signed up to win the overnight stay.

When you’re running a sweepstakes to generate leads, you must remember the purpose of “lead-generation”. And that is, sometimes it’s easier to build up your list of leads, so you can make consistent offers to your prospects, than it is to just try and sell them something directly.

(For more information on using “2-Step” lead-generating selling formulas, see my article and “2-Step” writing samples here.)

And running a sweepstakes is a fun and exciting way to get your prospects motivated and all fired-up about your business.

Do you know the most popular sweepstakes ever ran? (Yes, even more popular than “Ed McMahon’s Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes!)

Well, the most popular sweepstakes ever ran, was put on by AOL in April, 2004. Over 1 Million people entered the contest to win a Porsche Boxter seized by federal authorities, from a major internet spammer.

And let me ask you this: Do you think AOL did just a “little” marketing to those 1 million entrants?

Did you know, if AOL only got a 0.25% conversion rate, of entrants who eventually became AOL subscribers (that’s 1 out of every 400 people)… even at the lowest AOL subscriber plan of only $24 Dollars a month, this turns into…

$60,000 Dollars A Month… or… $720,000 Dollars A Year… Forever… For AOL!

Ka-ching! Not bad, hey?

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