Sample Content Preview Guide them through the process The member will feel comfortable knowing that someone is there for guidance. A good introductory video of what the membership is all about and the people behind it will be very soothing for any new member and keep them coming back. Set Expectations Immediately... Once the introduction is done, the first level of comfort has been given to the new member. Now it is very important to keep the enthusiasm up. For that you need to set expectations. This is very important because loss of enthusiasm is as bad as is overenthusiasm, and both will lead to a drop in membership. Give them a map to follow For increased membership retention, the key element is to set expectations to avoid disappointment. Show your new members a few success stories and model examples. This will help them understand the kind of expectations they can have by being a member of your site. Explain The Perks Of Being A Member. Member benefits are the reason why the member joined in the first place. You might have done well to explain what the benefits are in advance. Still, reiterate all of it once again. Never think that repetition is going to be boring. For new members, this the first time they are hearing everything after signing up. So it is more authoritative, as far as they are considered. Keep things benefit-driven Again, if there are 10 benefits, maybe three or four might have piqued a person’s interest at the time of joining. After joining, a member might pay extra attention to all the benefits and might feel a wow factor on hearing the entire list. Also mention additional benefits that are indirect, like getting involved in a community, making new friends, and so on. Being realistic is the key to better increase your membership retention. The first interaction is crucial However small the first benefit of being a member is—be it a payment transferred, the actual special content received, or a gift, is very crucial. It is human nature to feel, believe, and have confidence and comfort of reliability. So it is very important to state the exact timing or position for the first receivable benefit new members will receive. This gives enormous confidence and feel of reliability for the new members. Also, this throws in an element of transparency. Members might feel this whole activity as more trustworthy and know they’ve come to the right place. The key is retention, and the feeling of trustworthiness and value of the site are the most important factors contributing to the increased membership retention. Help Them Enjoy Their Experience! “All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.” You might have heard this saying before, and now is the time to apply it to your online membership site. Being too serious and activity-oriented makes the site a monotonous affair, and the members gradually will start losing interest, leading to a drop in members. Set a relaxing tone Give the feel of relaxation and enjoyment too at this stage. Use a bit more personal tone while explaining things and creating videos. This will avoid the serious tone and will give a comfortable feel to new members. It is very important to use a casual tone, as the new member can be a bit nervous. It is important to bring in an element of a relaxed mood. Keeping Your Members From The Start... Also, give members the feel that there are plenty of moments ahead that are quite enjoyable and valuable. Give Clear Cost Instructions The last step is to give a crisp and clear idea on the site’s payment process well in advance. Payment includes all the transactions from and to the member. A clear idea on this front will make the new member feel confident in the membership. Also, he or she will not carry false expectations that may lead to disappointment later. This is the key to have better retention rates. These tips are general guidelines of how to keep a newly joined member active and continue with the membership for a longer period of time. The real factor, however, depends on the activity of the online membership site.

Sample Content Preview Focus on Buyers Only This statement may sound contradictory since you also want to convert freebie seekers into paying customers. Well, it means you should add only people who have actually bought from you to your email list. You might think you are ignoring the most popular list building tactic of giving away a freebie for signups. The logic is that you are after signups of real buyers and not freebie seekers. You will be surprised that some freebie seekers who feel they need to buy something to get another one from you will actually buy from you. With the steps we shall list further down, you can convert most of such signups to buyers. Exceed Subscriber Expectations This one is obvious. It is the best way for ensuring that your buyers are extra satisfied. Ensure that you keep adding a little more value with every email response you send out to your qualified list. Add freebies to the messages occasionally. It could even be just a link to a valuable article, video, a free report or any other useful resource online. You do not want them to think every communication between you and them is a promotional message which contains one of your affiliate links. When properly implemented, this step greatly enhances your credibility. It makes your subscribers view you as a friend who has an honest interest in their affairs. They will see you as a true friend who is always ready to help. Let Your Subscribers Improve Your Products The best way to conduct your product research is to tactically ask your subscribers what they need or want. When you discover this want or need through their answers, you then create a product which fulfills that need for them. That way, you already have a qualified crowd of buyers waiting to buy your next product. Converting Freebie Seekers into Serious Buyers Freebie seekers worry all internet businesses. Only taking without buying is a major drain to all businesses. Nevertheless, with the right steps and approach, you can avoid these scenarios. Your service or product is never the problem. Some freebie seekers who have been converted admit to expecting being shown that they are valued and respected by the marketer. They admitted to wanting a sure ‘escape route’ should they need to use it. If you find it hard to turn such people into evangelists for your brand, try the following steps. You will surely notice an increased user engagement and loyalty while the number of your paying customers will rise considerably. Give Away A Freebie This may sound contradictory. The trick is that you should offer the freebie with some kind of attachment. You can either give the freebie together with a secondary product option to be bought or, offer a ‘limited free trial’ version of your actual product. You use the freebie to gather a crowd then you send them all to the right landing page. Although you may still need to perform some ‘weeding out’ with this method, it is still a good way of offering them an ‘upgraded’ product version with several perks, before they get to collect your freebie. Use Joint Ventures You can use joint ventures to create a qualified buyers list. It involves entering an agreement with other marketers especially industry influencers. Such marketers then promote your product to their list. Interested subscribers are then sent to your landing page. The only downside to this depending on how you view it is that, you will have to give your partner a cut of the profits. Building Your Buyers List – Fee vs. Free Let Freebie Seeking Subscribers Improve Your Product Do not let this confuse you. Here, you are asking the questions to know why the freebie seekers are not buying from you. Their answers will point out the adjustments or corrections you need to make to your product or service. After making the corrections, you can then remarket the product to the freebie seekers. Then, some of them will surely be converted. An amazing product or service will take you far. But in modern online business, you might need to go a bit further. You do not want the community you have built thinking that you have taken their money and left them out in the cold. You must get them involved, provoke their excitement and make them feel they must keep using your product. That way you will always have a qualified buyers list just waiting to be converted. “Use This Fool-Proof Viral Strategy & Add Hungry BUYERS to Your Email List By Leveraging Others!”

Table of Contents The Name Of The Game 1 Chapter 1: The Alpha Marketer.... 7 Chapter 2: How To Create Authority Today ... 11 Chapter 3: Behind The Scenes Of A 7 Figure Online Business . 20 Chapter 4: How To Generate Targeted Leads 28 Chapter 5: The Highest Paid Writing Profession In The World 33 Chapter 6: Autopilot Business .... 46 Chapter 7: How To Get High Ticket Clients .... 52 Chapter 8: How To Create Recurring Income . 57 Chapter 9: How The Rich Get Richer .... 66 What You Must Do Right Now ... 74 Sample Content Preview Chapter 1: The Alpha Marketer If you've been in the Online Marketing scene for at least a few months, then you will have already learn of some of the marketing top guns. The guys who are crushing it in this business. You will have also come across more marketers in the making. And then, there is the rest of the crowd. The majority of the people who are not making much money - or any at all. After so many years of Internet development, evolving technology, abundance of training products, software, and more opportunities than ever before, how is it that the odds of success had hardly improved? Is the playing field still far from being leveled? Or hmm... could the culprit be the individual himself? Most people might find it unsettling to learn that they are responsible for their own success (or the lack thereof) but in actual fact, it’s good news. Isn't it great to be able to forge your own path and be the master of your own destiny? Or would you rather surrender that power to someone else and be at the mercy of external forces you have little to no control over? The main point is this: if you've been struggling to make sales, be it online or in person, the first thing you've got to do is take responsibility for your actions - or the lack thereof. For success is found within you, not outside you. It's not found in the e-book you've just bought, or the seminar you're about to attend. I mean, sure, these are great time savers and a compass in the right direction, like this book you're reading right now. However ultimately, your business isn't going to build itself. Not in the initial stage, at least. And these books, courses, programs, software, etc. they're just tools for you to use and leverage on. If you're a lousy carpenter, you can have the best saw in the world and still produce mediocre work. But put average tools into the hands of an expert and he can craft beauty. It's hard not to see where this is going. Here's a question for you: - What makes some people more attractive than others? - Why are people attracted or drawn towards certain people? - How do certain people get famous? - Why do some people have the ability to say something that gets others to follow them? - Why some people have the power to influence others to buy from them (product or service), while others don’t? - Why some people can still thrive despite being in a limited resources situation? - How do you become all of the above? Is it luck? Is it privilege or certain race/country? Now, what I’m about to share with you isn't a typical marketing book.In fact I got it from an unlikely place... dating. In the PUA (Pick Up Artist) world, there are two types of personalities: Alpha and Beta. When you look at it, this same theory holds true everywhere else. You're going to have people who are leaders, followers and wannabes - this is Basic Human Psychology 101 and it's wired in since the Cavemen Era. There are tribal leaders and there are kings and queens back then. Today it's expressed differently, like CEOs and other leaders in our midst. So, adopting dating terms and attraction terms... What makes an Alpha marketer? What makes a Beta? By now you're aware that there are many ways to observe the industry but this is one way. That’s why most people fail, because they're not even thinking of becoming an Alpha ; even those who do rise might only know it subconsciously. So, what has this got to do with lead attraction? Well, this is because people buy from people they like, know and trust. They don’t want another “me too” marketer. If there’s nothing special about you, why the hell must they follow you? Your goal, is to be an Alpha. Build your business. Don't worry if you don't feel confident yet. It’s meant to be built, not given. It’s earned after you conquer some fears or new heights. So, how do you become an Alpha? Chapter 2: How To Create Authority Today So, by now, you would already know you got to be an Alpha to achieve massive success in the marketing world. Attraction is not a choice - people naturally gravitate towards an authority figure. It’s why people read the news and quote from it, and also the same reason why people look up to and quote from the words and works of pioneers, inventors, teachers, entrepreneurs and thinkers. People trust them, as supposed leaders or experts of their respective fields. However, some Internet marketers out there have the wrong idea. They think that one has to collect the relevant qualifications and certificates to create authority. Now, you don’t have to do that. In fact, it’s not necessary at all. Because here’s the thing: you don’t have to wait for someone to endorse you before you can start. After all, who out there certified these certificate-giving guys? Don’t waste your time on such things. It is more often a procrastination move. Give yourself permission to go ahead and do it now (which by the way, is an Alpha trait!). The truth is, people listen to you if you are capable of solving a problem for them. You just have to find ways to inspire confidence in them. “But... How can I be teaching others when I’m not an expert or successful yet?” - this is one common self-limiting belief that hinders one’s potential. If you don’t feel good enough, you operate from a position of lack. This is one mentality you have to change in order to succeed. All you have to do is make an effort to position yourself as an authority figure.

Table of Contents The Best App to Slow Down and Speed up iPhone Videos 4 Top iPhone Video Recording Tips That Minimize the Amount of Editing You Have to Do 5 Top Quality Video Editing Apps for iPhone 8 Trimming iPhone Videos the Easy Way 10 Using the Free iMovie iPhone App for Editing Videos 12 Best Free Video Editing Apps for iPhone 14 Creating and Editing a Slideshow Video on Your iPhone 16 Creating Stop-Motion Videos on Your iPhone 18 Cropping Videos on Your iPhone 20 How to Add Audio and Sound Effects to iPhone Videos 22 Sample Content Preview Use the Grid Feature Filmic Pro provides a grid feature which allows you to use the Rule of Thirds which professional photographers use all the time. When in use, a 9 panel, 3 x 3 grid ap-pears over whatever you are viewing through your camera lens. These 9 rectan-gles are equally sized, and the goal of using the grid is to help you perfectly center the focus of your video, from top to bottom, and side to side. Turn this feature on by choosing Overlays, Settings, then Thirds Guide in Filmic Pro. Choose the Correct White Balance before You Start Recording Your iPhone will record videos with a set white balance if you do not mess with this feature. However, manually adjusting the white balance on your videos guar-antees you get the colors you are looking for every time, and that your subjects and backgrounds look natural. If you are using Filmic Pro as recommended, place a plain white napkin, handker-chief, or piece of paper in front of your camera lens and tap the white balance button (third from the left on your bottom menu) until you get the natural white-ness you desire. Download Filmic Pro and use the above tips and you will dramatically reduce the amount of time you have to spend editing your videos. There are other features in the Filmic Pro app not discussed here which further help you edit your photo cre-ations, which sometimes means turning trash into treasure. Top Quality Video Editing Apps for iPh-one Recording videos on your iPhone is only half of the fun. The true enjoyment comes from making normal, everyday, routine experiences memorable and eye-brow raising-worthy by applying special effects. When you slow down a video and its accompanying audio dramatically, you can turn a normal video clip into a hilar-ious memory. There are applications which allow you to add animal heads to you and your friends, forgoing normally recognizable human faces. On the other hand, you may be recording videos on your iPhone for business ap-plications. If this is the case, you may want to be able to edit those videos accord-ingly, to create a great presentation. The iPhone’s video quality and camera fea-tures are improving all the time, meaning that you could host a video blog or video podcast directly from your iPhone. No matter how you want to touch up your videos, the following video editing apps for iPhones and other iOS devices are noteworthy. iMovie This application does not require third-party approval and access and is available in the App Store. This is an official iOS app that is included with more recent iPhones. It is worthwhile to note that iMovie is highly regarded by professional video editors for simplicity and on-the-go access. Create your own Hollywood-ish movie trailers from existing photo and video clips, apply a number of filters, slow down and speed up your video, or create HD movies. These and other video edit-ing tasks are simple with the official iOS application iMovie. Vizzywig Video Editor 4K Multicamera Studio This is another application which professionals use to edit the video on their iPhones and iPads. Considered one of the best video editing apps available on the App Store, Vizzywig is extremely versatile and easy to use. You can record from both of your iPhone cameras at the same time, import multiple video clips simul-taneously, and you are provided with an extensive video editing feature set. Cute CUT Pro The Cute Cut video editor has been out for some time. While the standard app has a lot going for it, this Pro version provides many high-end features. All the other high-quality iPhone video editing applications on this list are easy to use, and Cute Cut Pro is no exception. Included are over 30 drawing tools that allow you to create artwork right on top of your videos. Several aspect ratios and reso-lutions are supported, there are 20+ transitions available, and Cute Cut Pro in-cludes the ability to create advanced brushwork as well. VideoShow PRO - Video Editor This fully functional video editing application is a hit with iPhone owners because it is easy to use. You get all the top features you expect in a professional-quality video editor, and 4K support was added at the end of 2017. This high-quality edi-tor includes 50 themes, background music, the ability to create square videos, and direct-share capability to social media sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Vimeo. Trimming iPhone Videos the Easy Way Sometimes you don't need to do a lot of editing with your iPhone videos. You rec-ord them, play them back and find out that, for the most part, they are just what you are looking for. You got the lighting right, the sound is perfect, your subjects are centered, and the action is amazing. The video is so good that you are starting to prepare your Academy Award acceptance speech for producer of best independent video short film. Upon further scrutiny, you figure that there is just a tiny bit of work to do. While your creation is pretty close to perfection, you realize you might need to do a minimal amount of trimming. The following ideas will help you clip and trim iPh-one videos so you can focus on nothing but the effect you are trying to capture while leaving out any dead or boring space. (The following tips work with any iPh-one running iOS 6 or better.) Use the Built-In iPhone Photos App to Trim Videos If you have just purchased an iPhone and have no videos to fool around with, you will have to change that. To become efficient at consigning just the right parts of your video creations to the editing room floor, you need to practice. If you don't have any current videos, whip out your phone and start recording. Once you have anything recorded, here is what you want to do.

Table of Contents Choosing From the 10 Facebook Ad Objectives 4 How Facebook Blueprint Can Help You Make Money With any FB Advertisement 6 How to Advertise for Free on Facebook with Facebook Offers 8 How to Advertise on Facebook with a 4-Step Formula for All FB Ad Campaigns 11 How to Get 10 Times More Facebook Ad Traffic with Carousel Ads 14 How to Promote an Event to Advertise for Free on Facebook 16 How to Set Your Facebook Advertising Budget ... the Smart Way 19 How to Use Custom Audiences in Your Facebook Ads 22 The 3 Most Popular Ways to Advertise on Facebook 24 The Quickest Way to Advertise on Facebook - Boosting Facebook Posts 27 Sample Content Preview Blueprint Live Some people learn better by interacting live with a trainer or educator. This is the format offered by Blueprint Live, an in-person training program which teaches the ins and outs of advertising and marketing on Instagram and Facebook. If you would like to learn more, Facebook Blueprint can be found by googling "Fa-cebook Blueprint e-learning," or by going to the following URL: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/1716267285362419 How to Advertise for Free on Facebook with Facebook Offers Facebook makes it pretty easy to advertise on the world's biggest and most popu-lar virtual social hangout. With more than 2 billion active monthly users (and that number is rising), Facebook is easily the largest of the social media networks on the Internet. There are many different ways to advertise on Facebook, and re-gardless of the business goal you have in mind, there is an FB marketing method perfectly suited to your particular situation. The process is pretty easy as well. Once you log into the Facebook Ads Manager, you are asked to choose a market-ing objective. At this initial step, you simply answer the question, "What do you want to do?" You then choose a target audience, set your budget, and finally, cre-ate your ad. Though Facebook allows you to advertise as inexpensively as $5 per day, you may prefer to advertise for free. This may be because you have an extremely small advertising budget, or you aren't convinced Facebook is right for your business. Whatever the reason, there is a simple and effective way to advertise on Facebook without spending a penny. This marketing option is called Facebook Offers. How Do Facebook Offers Work? Facebook Offers are un-originally but aptly named. These are offers you make on Facebook to the fans of any business page you have created. The program has been around for years and was most recently upgraded in 2017. FB Offers lets you share free giveaways, special sales, and significant discounts with your Facebook page fans. As long as you have created a page, or you have been named the administrator of a page, you can use the free Facebook Offers tool to simultaneously build your email list and announce a special offer. This is significantly different than simply broadcasting the same offer on your Facebook account because anyone who re-sponds to your offer automatically receives email notifications to remind them of the offer you have made, and any deadlines you have included. This means without spending a penny, you can use the Facebook Offers format to send traffic to an email list building opt-in page. You can keep in contact with fans of your Facebook page through email in the future. These people are already fa-miliar with your business, so they are warm prospects. When you make your Fa-cebook Offer exceptional, delivering extreme value with a steep discount or free giveaway, this free advertising method can create lifelong customers and fans of your business. To make your offer even better, you can use the Facebook option to pin this post to the top of your page. This means that anytime someone visits your page, whether, for the 1st or 100th time, they see your offer before consuming any other content. How to Create a Free Facebook Offer The easiest way to create a free offer is from your page. When you are logged into your page, you will notice an option to Create an Offer at the very top of your timeline. On a mobile device, this may be on the side of your display. Choose this option, describe your offer, add an engaging photo or video, and then select whether you want your offer to be redeemed online, at a physical store, or in both places. Facebook will give you the option of "boosting" your offer by setting a daily budget. Skip this step, click Publish, and your offer is now live! That is how easy it is to advertise on Facebook without spending a penny if you have a limited adver-tising budget, or just want to test the waters first before taking a financial plunge. How to Advertise on Facebook with a 4-Step Formula for All FB Ad Campaigns If you are thinking about advertising on Facebook, you no doubt understand how potentially powerful the world's largest social media network can be. For the last quarter of 2017, Facebook reported earnings of a staggering $10.3 billion. That in-come was earned through Facebook's advertising platform, which allows market-ers just like you access to the 2+ billion active monthly users on FB. Depending on your marketing goals, there are a number of ways you can get your message delivered on FB. You can choose a carousel format which allows users to browse several of your products at once, drive engagement by asking for likes and shares, or use your advertising budget to increase your number of followers. Re-gardless what business objective you have in mind, Facebook offers a simple 4-step formula for all advertising campaigns.

Table of Contents Introduction to Running Successful Webinars 4 Knowing Your Audience Is Essential ..7 Tools You'll Need ....9 Choosing a Camera ...9 Selecting a Microphone. .11 Webinar Software and Apps ....14 All-in-One Webinar Providers 14 Screen Recording Software ..16 PowerPoint and Other Slide Show Presentation Tools .17 The Minimum Tool, Down-and-Dirty, Get-Started-Today Webinar ..17 Live Video Streaming and Recording Services 18 Getting Traffic, Building Your Audience 20 Building a Landing Page for Webinar Sign-Ups 20 The Free and Ethical "Bribe" You Must Have on Your Landing Page .21 Ask for Social Shares 21 Email Autoresponder Integration 22 The Webinar Reminder Timeline .22 Different Types of Webinar Monetization .23 The 13-Step Webinar Formula for Customer Engagement ....25 Live Versus Automated/Recorded Webinars 31 Joint Ventures or Solo Webinars? ...32 What to Do after the Webinar Is Over ..33 Top 10 Tips for Running a Successful Webinar ...35 Conclusion ....37 Sample Content Preview The success of any marketing campaign depends first and foremost on understanding your audience. Attempting to sell veggie-burgers to diehard meat eaters is not going to work, no matter how good your offer, presentation, and your product are. That is an extreme example which points out the first step to success for running webinars - choosing who will see your presentation, and understanding what they want from your products or services. If you are selling a weight-loss product, the relentless driving force in the minds of your prospects is not "to lose weight." Yes, your perfect prospects do you want to weigh less than they currently do. However, that is not their core desire. People want to lose weight so they can feel good about themselves, receive compliments from others, finally look good in a bathing suit again, or to improve their health. Someone may want to lose weight because he or she is tired of being called mean-spirited, hurtful, demeaning names. Women and men may desire to drop 30 or 40 pounds so they can attract a specific type of mate. Whatever the reason or reasons, you will not sell even the greatest weight-loss product in the world if you do not understand the real reasons your prospects are considering your offerings. You must understand the core beliefs driving the behaviors of your audience. Never stop asking yourself why someone would choose your product over another. Think about the biggest problems and most nagging questions that trouble the people in your market. Focus on a very narrow, welldefined group of people and not only will your webinar registrations improve when you market to that audience, but you will see your clickthrough rate (CTR), webinar attendance and sales increase as well. When you cater and present your weight-loss solution to "over-50 divorced men trying to lose 25 pounds to get back in the dating game" rather than "all overweight men and women," your webinar experience improves dramatically. Tools You'll Need Do you have a smartphone with a pretty good camera? If so, you are ready to host a webinar. That is probably not the way you are going to run most of your webinars, but it illustrates how easy it is to get your message out there with simple video and audio. All the physical tools you need for an effective webinar are a decent camera, good audio capture, and software that records your video/audio. There are so many choices to make regarding webinar software that we will dedicate the entire next chapter to this selection process. Right now, let's take a look at the things you should keep in mind regarding what type of camera and microphone you will use. Choosing a Camera Before you become concerned that you will have to spend a lot of money on a camera for your webinar, consider this. There are plenty of quality screen capture choices that mean you never have to use a camera. For those who are less than thrilled about showing their face during their webinar, this is a good solution. Screen capture technology is true to its name. Whatever still shots or video you are watching on your computer display will be captured. This means you don't have to use a camera to videotape yourself or your surroundings. If you decide instead to make webinars, video courses, and possibly a video podcast a regular part of your business, consider the following types of cameras. • Digital Video Cameras • DSLR Camera • Mirrorless Camera DSLR cameras are limited due to USA importing restrictions that only allow you to record for 29 minutes and 59 seconds at a time. DSLRs are better than mirrorless cameras at low light since they use mirrors to reflect light into your eye. Mirrorless models get a digital rather than optical rendition of the scene you will be capturing. DSLRs are sometimes a lot larger and bulkier than mirrorless cameras, though the lenses you can purchase for each are usually about the same size. For shooting video, mirrorless cameras with 4K quality are quickly becoming the norm, and while video may have its limitations with a DSLR model, the quality you get is still more than acceptable for webinars. DSLRs can be expensive, mirrorless cameras as well. For budgetary and technical reasons, a simple digital camera with video recording capabilities is often your best choice. The Sony Cyber-Shot WX220, Kodak PIXPRO Astro Zoom, Sony DSC-H300, Kimire HD Recorder and PowerLead Puto PLD002 are just a few of the budget-friendly compact digital cameras and camcorders that provide quality video. Point-and-shoot models like the Canon PowerShot Elph 190 IS, Canon PowerShot SX530 HS and Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS30 are excellent lowbudget choices. • The Camera on Your Smart Phone or Computer Unless you have invested in a computer or phone that has an extremely high-quality camera, this should be considered as a last resort. The quality of built-in cameras and smartphones is getting better all the time. The same is true to a lesser extent with the cameras on desktop PCs, laptops, and tablets. While there are a few rare Internet marketers that record their webinars on their iPhones and Android smartphones, their number is extremely small. In almost every case, the quality of your webinar receives a substantial boost when you use a dedicated camera as opposed to the one built into your phone or computer. • The Camera You Currently Own When just getting started running webinars, you should stick with what you have. Record a couple of test videos with your smartphone, laptop camera or the standalone camera you already own. Depending on your needs, you may find that the camcorder, smartphone camera, or pointand- shoot model you are currently using is fine for recording video. You can always upgrade later to a more capable camera as your business grows. Don’t let the lack of a high-quality camera keep you from getting started. Selecting a Microphone Many of the cameras mentioned above have built-in microphones. However, if you are looking for quality audio, you need to invest at least a little bit of money into a decent mic. Even if you are simply using screen capture or live video streaming software rather than a standalone camera, good audio is an absolute must. Here are some entry-level, intermediate, and high-end microphones that many full-time podcasters, webinar producers, and video bloggers swear by.

Sample Content Preview Most of the challenges will arise from opinions you have formed about blogging from information which was initially available to you. They are opinions you have taken to heart due to what several supposed ‘experts’ have told you. Their stories of how you can easily make six figures within days of starting a blog. This article is intended to show you that even though it is not too hard to make money with an authority blog, there are certain steps you must take and certain ideologies you must straighten out. Read on… Your Mindset Your mindset is the most important factor when it comes to succeeding as an authority blogger. Many people hold the misconception that once you can get the right tools like the WordPress blogging software and its many plugins, a good seo platform and so on, then you are set for success. Well, this is quite untrue. Blogging success begins with knowing what you are an authority in. Something you never get tired of talking about. This love will help you through the time spent before you begin to see actual results. Authority Blog Advantage... A Niche Is the Beginning The right niche is really the beginning of authority blog fortunes. You must ensure that you research to find out the best in relation to what you are an authority in. Some people think a niche’s popularity is the only ingredient which will make them successful. Even though this is one of the requirements, there are many others. - Ensure Niche Profitability: In addition to being popular, the niche you are going to create your blog in must be profitable. A keyword research is the best way of testing a niche for profitability. It helps you in discovering the general demand for a specific idea. It gives you an estimate of the number of people looking for information on that particular topic within a given period of time. - Test Your Niche For Longevity: You should also test whether your chosen niche will stand the test of time. You should know whether the topic you want to start blogging about will still be relevant in years to come. There are many techniques for performing this test on your idea. An example is hanging around in forums to determine the kind of future which awaits your niche. - Test Your Niche For Whether You Are An Authority: You should test whether you are actually an authority in your chosen topic. It will be quite embarrassing to think you know a topic more than anyone else only to later discover that, your knowledge is obsolete. There are many ways for doing this. Hanging around relevant forums is again useful here. You can determine how much people know about your topic from discussions. - Test Your Niche For Competition: A niche with no competition means it is not relevant. While a competitive niche means people are, making money from it. Competition means many people are interested in your topic. Competition serves you in several ways as a blogger. One of those ways is studying what competitors are doing to succeed and copying them thereby saving time and other resources. - Test Your Niche For Products: You also need to test whether valuable products can be created for your niche. If you create a following in a niche where people neither need information nor physical products, you hardly make money. A look at existing products is one of the ways for determining whether you niche needs products. Authority Blog Advantage... These subtopics should have shown you how important establishing a niche is, as a first step to making authority blog profits. Other Vital First Steps Other vital first steps to your authority blog success include: Topic Generation You must generate relevant topics from your niche research. You will want your blog articles to end up going viral. This can only be possible by generating relevant topics. When you write on such topics, the articles surely give value to your readers by solving one problem or the other for them. Generating relevant blog topics is all about knowing who your target audiences are and the kind of information which will be valuable to them. Relevant topics are the only route to valuable content. Valuable content on the other hand is what major search engines now consider when ranking websites in organic search results. So you can see how vital topic generation is to authority blog profits. Creating Blogposts Blogpost creation is vital in getting your blog to become popular. Blogposts form a greater part of the content on all authority blogs. And valuable content is the heart of any blog which must succeed. You will hardly succeed as an authority blogger if you are unable to create great blogposts. They are the reason people come to your blog, they are the reason such visitors stay for long, they are the reason visitors sign up to your list, they are the part of your blog people share most on social media. If we are to keep listing what blogposts are, we might not write any other thing right up to the end of this article. Authority Blog Advantage... Considering Blogging Platforms You can now see how long we have travelled through several steps and stages before, we arrived at what most people initially think is the only prerequisite for blogging success.

Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 4 WHAT IS BITCOIN MINING? 5 BITCOIN MINING TERMINOLOGY 6 WHY DO PEOPLE MINE BITCOIN? 9 GETTING STARTED MINING 12 TOP HARDWARE FOR BITCOIN MINING 13 WHAT SOFTWARE IS NEEDED? 16 MINING APPS 17 ELECTRICAL COSTS FOR MINING 22 OTHER BITCOIN MINING OPTIONS 23 CLOUD MINING 23 MINING POOLS 23 HOW TO SET UP A BITCOIN MINING OPERATION 25 HOW TO CALCULATE BITCOIN MINING PROFITS 26 RISKS AND REWARDS OF BITCOIN MINING 27 RISKS 27 REWARDS 27 CONCLUSION 29 Sample Content Preview A mining pool is a group of miners who come together in agreement to share block rewards in proportion to their contributed mining power. As a sole miner, unless you command a tremendous hashrate, you may find it difficult to solve a block on your own. Aside from that, mining alone is not always profitable now because of the amount spent on hardware and electricity. By joining forces with other miners in a so-called pool, you stand a better chance of solving a block with the advantage of the pool’s total hashrate which means earning more profits than when you mine alone. Whenever a block is solved successfully, the pool rewards each miner according to the amount of their contributed hashrate (fewer commissions and the likes). Joining a top mining pool will help you earn Bitcoins even faster. Why Do People Mine Bitcoin? There are several reasons why people mine Bitcoin. Mining is the only way Bitcoin is produced. Also, unlike conventional currency which is based on gold and silver, Bitcoin is based on mathematics. People around the world use software programs that follow a mathematical formula to produce Bitcoins. The beauty of this is that the mathematical formula is freely available, so basically, anyone can check it. Also, the mining software is open source, so anyone can look it up to verify that the inputs correspond to the desired outputs. People want the freedom that the mining of Bitcoins provides, and the benefits that come with it. The reasons why they mine Bitcoins can be summarized by the characteristics of Bitcoin itself. These characteristics are practically absent or inconsistent in the conventional governmentbacked currencies listed as follows: 1. It is decentralized This is one of the major reasons why people mine Bitcoins, and that is because the Bitcoin network is not controlled by one central authority. Conventional currency’s central banks can just decide to take people’s money away from them, like was experienced in Cyprus in early 2013 by the Central European Bank. With Bitcoins, every machine involved in its mining forms part of a large network, and they all work together, although competitively. Also, even if some part of the network abruptly goes offline for some reason, the money keeps on flowing nonetheless. 2. It is easily set up Getting started with mining Bitcoins is a relatively faster and easier process compared to conventional banks. With Bitcoin mining, you get your Bitcoin address in seconds, with no hassle and no fees payable. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of conventional banks which make you jump through hoops simply to open a bank account. Not to mention the herculean task and bureaucracy synonymous with setting up a merchant bank account. 3. It is completely transparent Another reason why people mine Bitcoins is because of its transparency. You can access details of every single transaction that has ever been made on the Bitcoin network via a large version of a general ledger known as the Blockchain. You can also confirm the total amount of Bitcoins stored in a publicly-used Bitcoin address, though the identity of the owner of the address remains anonymous. For those who want to make their activities even more opaque on the Bitcoin network, they can do so by making use of different Bitcoin addresses and by not transferring large amounts of Bitcoin to a single address. 4. Minimal transaction fees Unlike conventional bank systems that charge high fees on international money transfers, mining of Bitcoins eliminates going through the middleman; you get to enjoy very minute transaction fees. 5. It is fast Nothing beats the speed of a Bitcoin transaction. You can send money from any part of the world to another, and it will arrive in the recipient’s Blockchain wallet in minutes, as soon as the Bitcoin network processes the payment. 6. It is non-retrievable Once a transfer has been completed, and the Bitcoins are sent, there is no possibility of retrieving them back. This is because it requires the proofs for all of the transactions before the one you want to reverse. The Bitcoins you send out are gone forever and can only be reversed if the recipient agrees to send them back. It is therefore very important that you are sure that you really want a transaction before going ahead with it. 7. It is secure The mining of Bitcoins allows individuals to become architects of their own wealth but also prevents any one person from gaining enough power to block transactions. This is seen as an advantage and another reason why people mine Bitcoins because of the security of its transactions. It is an ingenious means of payment that effectively ensures that the risk of fraudulent activities being perpetrated is significantly curbed. Getting Started Mining To get started as a major Bitcoin miner, there are two specific things that you’ll need. Aside from having cheaper electricity, you will need access to the latest mining hardware. Since the second halving event that took place in early July 2016, the mining of Bitcoins has become even tougher, with the reward for successfully mining a block dropping from 25 Bitcoins down to 12.5. Also, with the Chinese taking the lead in the Bitcoin mining game, you’ll need to work with the best available miners to be able to compete. However, before we delve into the Bitcoin hardware you will need, you must first gain an understanding of a few technical terms. Hashrate As earlier explained, the hashrate refers to the measure of how many attempts at solving a Bitcoin block a miner tries per second. The more attempts, the more chances the miner has of solving the block and claiming the 12.5 Bitcoin reward. Joule per Gigahash (J/GH) A joule is a unit for measuring energy, and it represents one watt over one second. Electricity is a major recurring expense for miners, and therefore the joule per gigahash (J/GH) is especially important when making comparisons between miners. It is estimated that the electrical efficiency of an Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miner is expected to go higher in indirect proportion to the fewer joules used to produce a Gigahash. Difficulty When the term difficulty is used in Bitcoin mining hardware, it simply refers to an automatic control measure that prevents Bitcoin blocks from being solved increasingly quickly. The difficulty level of mining adjusts to the current hashrate, ensuring the blocks are solved every 10 minutes on average. Profitability This refers to a bottom-line number from calculating the current Bitcoin price and Difficulty, including your miner’s cost and hashrate and your electrical cost in fiat money per kWh. The Difficulty mechanism, which adjusts itself quite frequently, together with the volatile price of Bitcoin, creates uncertainty about the future profitability of Bitcoin mining. However, using an online mining profitability calculator can prove very useful for this purpose. You should also create a custom spreadsheet containing inputs showing various exchange rate and Difficulty projections. Also, ensure that you take into consideration probable downtime due to software or hardware failures, power cuts, and the like. Break-even point This refers to the duration taken for your miner hardware to pay for itself. Pool Fees As mentioned earlier, mining pools are cooperative groups of miners who pull together to improve their hash-power. They distribute any rewards the pool earns in accordance with each individual miner’s hashrates. There are various types of pools, and each has their unique fees and reward structures. The larger the pool, the more frequent returns can be expected, though often, the higher the fees.

Table of Contents Most Effective and Useful Blog Widgets and Plugins .. .. .. .. 5 Popular Blog Sites .. .. .. .. .. 5 Danga Software Powered .. .. .. .. . 5 1. InsaneJournal.com .. .. .. .. . 5 2. JournalFen.com .. .. .. .. 5 3. LiveJournal.com .. .. .. .. .. 5 Themed Blog Sites .. .. .. .. 5 - Blogabond.com .. .. .. .. 5 - BlogCheese.com .. .. .. .. .. 5 - BusyThumbs.com .. .. .. .. 6 - Trippert.com .. .. .. .. .. 6 - Ufem.com .. .. .. .. 6 - WordCountJournal.com .. .. .. . 6 WordPress Powered .. .. .. .. . 6 - Blogetery.com .. .. .. .. .. 6 - Edublogs.org .. .. .. .. .. 6 - WordPress.com .. .. .. .. 6 - WordPress.org .. .. .. .. .. 6 Other Blog Platforms .. .. .. .. .. 6 - Blogger.com .. .. .. .. 6 - BlogSpirit.com .. .. .. .. .. 7 - Blogster.com .. .. .. .. .. 7 - Bloki.com .. .. .. .. . 7 - Bravenet.com .. .. .. .. 7 - Xanga.com .. .. .. .. .. 7 - Zoomshare.com .. .. .. .. 7 - Windows Live Spaces – .. .. .. .. 7 10 Essential Blogger Plugins and Blogger Widgets .. .. .. .. 7 1. Author Info Widget .. .. .. .. 7 2. Google Buzz Share Count Button .. .. .. .. 7 3. Subscribe Widget .. .. .. .. 7 4. Recent Post With Thumbnails .. .. .. . 8 5. Featured Content Slider .. .. .. .. .. 8 6. MintShare .. .. .. .. .. 8 7. Accordion .. .. .. .. 8 8. Recent Post Sliding With Thumbnail and Simple Spy .. .. . 8 9. Random Rotating Banner .. .. .. .. 8 10. Twitter Follow Us Badge .. .. .. .. .. 8 Best WordPress Widgets 2011 .. .. .. .. . 8 1. All In One SEO Pack .. .. .. .. 9 2. Google XML Sitemaps .. .. .. .. .. 9 3. WP Super Cache .. .. .. .. 10 4. My Most Popular Posts. .. .. .. .. 10 5. SEO Smart Links .. .. .. .. 10 6. My Random Posts .. .. .. .. 10 7. SEO Friendly Images .. .. .. .. 10 8. My Recent Post Widgets. .. .. .. .. . 10 9. Sexy Bookmarks .. .. .. .. 10 10. Fast Secure Contact Form .. .. .. 10 11. My Categories .. .. .. .. . 10 12. Category RSS .. .. .. .. 11 13. LJ Longtail SEO .. .. .. .. 11 14. Archives.. .. .. .. .. 11 15. Search widget. .. .. .. .. 11 16. WP DB Backup .. .. .. .. 11 17. CommentLuv .. .. .. .. 11 18. SEO Pressor .. .. .. .. .. 11 19. Pingback Optimizer .. .. .. .. .. 11 20. WP Silo SEO .. .. .. .. .. 12 50 Best WordPress Plugins and Widgets for Power Blogging .. .. . 12 Manage WordPress Comments .. .. .. . 12 Expert WordPress SEO .. .. .. .. 12 Easy WordPress Navigation .. .. .. .. .. 13 Stop WordPress Spam .. .. .. .. . 13 WordPress Twitter Plugins .. .. .. .. 14 Interactive WordPress Posts .. .. .. .. 14 WordPress Admin Management Tools .. .. .. .. 14 WordPress Advertising .. .. .. .. 14 WordPress Blog Translation .. .. .. .. . 15 Enhance WordPress RSS Feeds .. .. .. . 15 Random WordPress Stuff .. .. .. .. .. 15 For the Blogger .. .. .. .. .. 16 For your Readers .. .. .. .. 16 Fight Spam .. .. .. .. 16 Encourage Commenting .. .. .. .. 16 Improve Appearance .. .. .. .. .. 16 Enable Rich Comments .. .. .. .. .. 17 Enable Avatars .. .. .. .. 17 Show Off Comments .. .. .. .. 17 Allow Better Conversation .. .. .. .. 17 Image Management Tools .. .. .. .. 19 Importing Images from Other Services .. .. .. . 19 Image Display Effects & Hacks .. .. .. .. 19 Playing Music .. .. .. .. .. 20 Miscellaneous Audio Tools .. .. .. .. .. 20 Video Tools .. .. .. .. 20 Stats for the Blog Owner .. .. .. .. 20 Stats to Share with Visitors .. .. .. .. .. 21 Post Administration & Layout .. .. .. 22 Post Tools .. .. .. .. .. 22 Social Site Integration .. .. .. .. . 23 Status Indicators .. .. .. .. 23 Miscellaneous Site Integration .. .. .. . 23 Not Just WordPress .. .. .. .. 24 Sample Content Preview 10 Essential Blogger Plugins and Blogger Widgets When it comes to blogger plugins and widgets there’s no question there are hundreds, but we’ve picked our top 10 essentials for some serious blogging. Let’s have a look and find out what each has to offer. 1. Author Info Widget Similar to WordPress author card info, which is displayed at the end of the post, Author Info Widget, will display the author biography at the end of each post for Blogger users. Author Info Widget shows you’re about me text, gravatar, social network, mail address, and contact links of your post author. 2. Google Buzz Share Count Button These days Google Buzz is doing a lot of buzzing, and it can be seen in Mashable. You can opt for the same on your Blogspot/Blogger blogs. Add Goggle Buzz Share Count Button to your blog, which will count and allow you to buzz your blog. 3. Subscribe Widget This is a powerful free WordPress plugin. Every blog needs to have a social profile to get the users stay updated with the blog updates. Most of the template comes with a subscribe widget on the sidebar and some don’t. If your template doesn’t have a subscribe widget, you can make use of this. 4. Recent Post With Thumbnails One of the popular blogger widgets, created by Aneesh. Easy to customize, easy to integrate on your blogs, and the script is easy to install. The image thumbnails displayed for each related post are generated from the thumbnail associated with the relevant post page. 5. Featured Content Slider This elegant featured content slider from Bloggermint, is a must have plugin, which will smoothly show an unlimited number of posts. It is easy to integrate into blogger and compatible with all major browsers. 6. MintShare A Pure CSS3 and HTML based social share widget in five different variant from our Bloggermint labs. Mint Share is one of the few CSS and HTML based widget, and without any JavaScript the buttons are really fast-loading and small in size. 7. Accordion This is a unique blogger widget from Abu Farhan. This will show or hide your widget on your sidebar. A first of its kind for blogger makes it easier for the visitor to read and not show all long posts. The script will show only the first post, then hide the rest. 8. Recent Post Sliding With Thumbnail and Simple Spy This is another widget from Bloggertricks.com. Many would have seen simple spy in some design where the recent post fades in. This widget makes that possible with blogger blogs. 9. Random Rotating Banner One of the best money making widgets for your blog is this easy to customize random rotating banner. You can even customize the number of ads to be rotated. You do have to do a couple of small template modification for the banner to work. 10. Twitter Follow Us Badge Yet another blogger gadget that’s worth using. With one click, you’re able to add the floating Twitter follow us badge on your blog. There are many more useful plugins and widgets available online but this is definitely a great place to start. Best WordPress Widgets 2011 WordPress is like a gift from the search engine Gods. It is by far the most common blogging platform used. WordPress gives you an amazing opportunity to build a blog that ranks exceptionally well within the search engines, so if you haven’t yet setup your WordPress blog, now’s the right time to do that. There are millions of WordPress blogs out there but only a handful get decent traffic. That’s because few bloggers understand anything about search engine optimization or traffic generation, both key to bringing visitors to your blog. If you are using your blog to generate some form of income, you can only be successful if you are able to bring targeted traffic to the site. Adding WordPress widgets is the easiest way to include some interactive areas to your blog. Widgets allow you to customize your blog as much or as little as you like. A quick Google search, and you’ll quickly understand why you need a helping hand determining the best widgets to use in WordPress, which is exactly what we plan to do. Why not give your blog a little blogger power? Don’t confuse WordPress widgets and WordPress plugins though. WordPress widgets and plugins are a bit different. Plugins are functions that do something to your blog. They may never be seen by your blog visitors only serving a back-end purpose. However, a widget is generally the representation of a plugin in the form of an object that can be positioned anywhere on your website via the widgets interface in the appearance menu. Widgets are always plugins, but plugins are not always widgets. A widget usually is an easy way of using a plugin. I hope this short explanation clears things up, for those who have just started using WordPress. You generally install WordPress plugins and then activate them. They usually help improve your blog’s functionality and the public never knows they are there. On the other hand, you can share widgets with your visitors, in the sidebar or the footer. It’s a good idea to limit the number of widgets and plugins you incorporate in your blog. While there are thousands to choose from the reality is that too many can be overwhelming. Take time to decide what’s most important to you and then include widgets and plugins to support that. There are a handful of mandatory plugins that you must install, then there are also paid plugins that can be of great value. We’ve accumulated a list of those widgets and plugins we think deserve looking at. 1. All In One SEO Pack You need to have this plug in! The All In One SEO Pack really is the ultimate in plugins. Features include: • Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines. • Provides SEO Integration for WP e-Commerce sites. • Fine-tune Page Navigational Links. • Advanced Canonical URLs. • Built-in API, which allows other plugins/themes to access and extend functionality. • Supports Custom Post Types Nonce Security. • Avoids duplicate content typically found on WordPress blogs. • Supports CMS-style WordPress installations. • Automatically Generates META tags. • Works right out-of-the-box. All you need to do is install. Great for beginners. • For advanced users, everything can be fine-tuned. • Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Ultimate Tag Warrior or Auto Meta. It’s also one of the most famous WordPress plugins and best of all - it’s free! 2. Google XML Sitemaps The Google XML sitemap is pretty neat. In under a minute can build your website an xml sitemap, which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Ask, or Bing to better index your blog. This sitemap makes it easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. It will also ping the search engines each time you post a new content. It’s a must have plugin

Table of Contents Introduction . 4 Chapter 1: Why Eat Healthy? .... 7 Chapter 2: Understanding Your Relationship with Food .. 10 Chapter 3: The Dangers of Diet Trends ..... 14 Chapter 4: The Food Pyramid .. 17 Chapter 5: How Food Can Be Your Medicine .. 19 Chapter 6: The Health Benefits of Eating Vegetables . 22 Chapter 7: The Health Benefits of Eating Fruits .... 25 Chapter 8: The Best Meat to Eat for Healthy Living .... 29 Chapter 9: The Dangers of Processed Foods ... 33 Chapter 10: Bringing It All Together with Meal Planning .. 39 Conclusion . 46 Sample Content Preview Chapter 1: Why Eat Healthy? Healthy eating is important for a lot of reasons. Most of us are already aware of the increasing obesity epidemic in North America. This is particularly true of the United States in general. There is even a phrase for the way many Americans eat, and that is called the SAD diet. SAD stands for standard American diet, and it refers to a diet low in vegetables, high in fat and sugar, and lacking in nutrition. Processed foods are definitely a part of the SAD diet. These are foods that are easily available and quick to consume and prepare but have long-lasting negative health effects. If you do not want to find yourself obese, it is generally considered a good idea to avoid eating such processed foods and keep your focus on eating whole grains and fruits and vegetables and meat that has not been treated with hormones and other chemicals that can ultimately end up in your body and cause issues. Unfortunately, in North America, we are given a lot of options to slack off when it comes to preparing meals. We have so many things readily available to us, and the amount of money that you have to spend to buy bad food is far less then it is to buy good food. It seems strange that it costs more money to buy organic than it does to buy foods that will ultimately cause health problems in the long run, but that is the rule of supply and demand. Not only that, but processed foods are mass-produced and make a huge profit because of their convenience. That is why, in many ways, and obesity epidemic in North America is not particularly surprising. Nutrition is not number one on the list of companies that are attempting to cash in on people’s laziness in the kitchen. However, there are many ways that eating healthy is important, and good reasons to avoid processed foods and the standard American diet. For example, if you do not want to be obese, you should definitely look into the rest of this book for ways to improve your diet and begin a healthier lifestyle. Another reason to eat healthy is because you can make yourself prone to diseases by eating unhealthy foods and by staying on a standard American diet that is full of fat and sugar. Diabetes is something that can be developed because of poor eating and can often times be treated with healthy eating. Type II diabetes is ultimately something that can be maintained and controlled with proper eating habits and triggered by poor eating habits. If you want to avoid these types of difficulties and complications, you should do your best to be conscientious about your food choices. Other diseases can result from poor eating as well. High blood pressure is common, as well as other chronic diseases. Osteoporosis is something that can affect many people later in life because they were not making healthy eating choices earlier on. You may find yourself suffering from poor bone health, hypertension, or even heart problems. All of which can be very demanding on your body and cause major stress that can ultimately be very dangerous. If you want to show your family that you care about them, you should begin making choices now that will help you to stay in their lives for as long as possible. Poor health is not something that only affects you. It is also something that affects the people around you. If they are watching you suffer because of poor choices that you have made, in a way, that is quite selfish. They are suffering too. Now, do your best to make the choices that will be the best not only for yourself, but for your family in the long run. This book will show you how. Chapter 2: Understanding Your Relationship with Food Over the course of time, everybody begins to develop certain habits. We develop habits in all arenas of our lives. We develop hygiene habits, food habits, work habits, and all sorts of other types of habits. However, they are usually pretty oblivious to our habits until they begin to affect us negatively. And even then, when we begin to understand that we are being poorly impacted by our habits, it can be very difficult to change them. Because that is what I have it is like. A habit is something that we do almost unconsciously. We are programmed to follow these habits, and it takes a great amount of willpower to break free from the cycle. Once you begin to understand that your relationship with food has everything to do with the habits that you have created and habits that you can continue to mold and cultivate, then it becomes far easier to change your mindset. When you realize the impact and importance of your future and making positive choices about these things, it can make you more primed toward healthy eating and less inclined to make choices that negatively impact you and your future. To be truthful, many of us seem to consider the future bleak. We do not see reasons enough to change our habits because if we do not believe that we have anything good to look forward to, then it doesn’t matter whether we make good choices or not. We do not see how we can actually pave our future to be in our best interests. Probably because we do not believe that we have any power over our lives. If you can relate to this feeling, don’t be alarmed. It is very common of the human experience. We are generally discouraged from taking control and utilizing our power from an early age, and sometimes stopped believing we have any authority over our lives because we are usually told what to do by other people. As children, that makes sense. Children don’t always know what is best for them. But it can encourage a very helpless type of mindset that causes us to have a hard time understanding that the consequences of our actions can truly begin to shape who we are and how we present ourselves to the world. This is why it is important to truly take steps to help you understand yourself and your dietary habits. When did your habit begin? How did you form that habit? Why? What benefits do you have from this habit? What negative effects do you have from this habit? Ask yourself as many of these questions as you possibly can so that you begin to truly have an understanding of how it is that you are shaping your future with the food that you are eating. Are you creating a healthy and energized future, or are you creating a future that is bleak and potentially full of negative health consequences? Next, evaluate your sense of self discipline. Are you capable of maintaining discipline over your choices? Or is this an area where you struggle? Discipline can be difficult for everybody, and if you find yourself having a hard time staying disciplined, it would do you well to look into different ways that you are able to encourage yourself to be a more disciplined person both in practice and mentally. Only then will you truly have what it takes to begin a journey of healthy eating. Because whether we like it or not, and bad health choices are everywhere. They are easy and they are addicting. If we allow ourselves to be swayed by these poor choices, and do nothing to change our habits, then it doesn’t matter whether you eat healthy sometimes or not. The negative effects will still be gripping your body and waiting to spring up on you when you least expect it. In a way, unhealthy eating is a self-destructive pattern that a lot of us take part in. Whether this is because of poor self-esteem, or simply because we are unhappy with our situations and have no faith in the future, self-destructive eating patterns are dangerous. You have to look to yourself and truly value your life and your future before eating healthy will stick. There are many ways that you can do this, and if possible, you may even want to consult a mental health professional for support. Sometimes, they can help us to see biases and negative patterns in our lives that we remain oblivious to. Once those are understood and accepted, then it can be that much easier to overcome them and take the steps that you need to take in order to make positive choices.