Sample Content Preview We do not believe that there is a single definition of gratitude. You will see definitions for gratitude that center around emotions, traits, attitudes, habits and even morals. Gratitude is complex and it is dynamic. We believe that gratitude is actually a skill. When you cultivate the skill of gratitude your life will dramatically transform for the better. It will help you to get more of the things that you want and strengthen your relationships. The Gratitude Emotion You may read that gratitude has a strong connection to moods. We think that it is more about emotion. Emotion is a definite personal experience or circumstance. A mood can be influenced by a number of different things and doesn’t usually come from within. When you think about gratitude you usually express it in response to an action that occurs in a relationship situation with someone else. Another person has given you something or you have given something to another person. When people express gratitude for receiving they are performing an exchange. This exchange strengthens the gratitude emotion. Most emotions are powerful but gratitude is really powerful. When an exchange occurs the receiver of the gratitude needs to put themselves in the shoes of the giver to really experience the emotion. When you place yourself in the giver’s shoes enables you to feel the intention of the giver. It is very important that the receiver really feels the sincere intention of the giver so that they can stir the emotion of gratitude and respond accordingly. So it truly is an emotional exchange that is very powerful. There are many reasons to be Grateful Gratitude is not just about an exchange between a giver and a receiver. It isn’t limited to the giving and receiving of material things either. If you receive good advice from someone else then you should certainly be grateful for this for example. You can express gratitude on your own. Good health, the food that you have to eat, the people that you have in your life, the job that you work at that provides the money that you need – these are all things that you should be grateful for. As you will learn from going through this guide, there are so many things that you have in your life right now that you can and should be grateful for. Most people will be grateful for what they receive from others, but they do little, if anything to express gratitude for what they have in their life at this moment. We have said already that there are many things that you can be grateful for. In this guide we will provide you with the knowledge and the methods that will help you to develop a true attitude of gratitude. It will help you to develop the mindset that you should take nothing for granted and that you should value everything that you have in your life. It is going to take practice to truly adopt an attitude of gratitude. We all lead busy lives these days but you need to make room for gratitude. After reading this guide you will know when you need to be grateful and you should take action to express it. Too many people take everything that they have for granted. Think about what your life would be like if you lost some of these things. Are you grateful for your health? Where would you be if you had significant health problems? So if you suddenly had your health taken away, or have your car taken away or you are even denied access to the people in your social circle how would these things make you feel? Pretty bad is the answer. Now imagine slowly receiving all of these things back. Would you be grateful? You bet you would be! Start by finding happiness in what you have One of the best ways to find things to be grateful for is to look for happiness in the things in your life that you have right now. Most people reserve their gratitude for receiving the bigger things in life such as meeting the partner of your dreams, getting a promotion at work or having a baby. If you are thinking this way then you need to change. Here are some things you can try that are very easy to do: As soon as you awaken each day be grateful that you have another day of life. That way that you view life will determine your happiness and it will help you to appreciate how you see your life right now. When you think about it there are so many things in your life that you can be grateful for. Just thinking about this can give you a real lift and make you feel a lot happier. So make a commitment to identify the smaller things in life that you tend to take for granted and be grateful for these things.

Sample Content Preview I n order to be happy and satisfied, one needs to be motivated. Motivation basically gives us the hope to look ahead and dream higher. It is the force that propels us to go ahead. But why do we need to change? People change for various reasons. Some change because they don’t want to face the pain in their lives. Some change because they are sick of their failures. For instance: poor grades can make us realize the importance of hard work while studying and can motivate us to change. Similarly, debts can makes us look for other jobs or to do more than one job. This world is full of negativity and regardless of whatever people say, we need to face this negativity and try to get over it. But it is you who has to decide. Who is in charge of your life, you or your surroundings? Once, you decide that you are in charge of whatever happens to you, you will put your foot down and get over whatever negativity surrounds you. It is easy for us to remain is the shelter of our comfort zone, but have your ever tried stepping out of your comfort zone and take a sneak peek into what lies beyond? What exactly prevents you from doing so? Failure? Fears? Shame? The basic thing that you need to improve yourself is first, to have 4 DAVID M. COX a goal and set some objectives. Once, you know where you are headed towards, you will easily maintain your focus and not be strayed away by anything that hinders your path. Next is to set some concrete plans which can enable you to go for your goals. While planning, don’t just think within your comfort zone. Step out of the box in order to discover a newer you. Identify your problems and limitations and use techniques to get over them. Make sure that you know what your weaknesses are and correct them while being in the domain of the ethical values that you cherish. Execute your plan and don’t worry whether you have succeeded or not. Failures would not break you, but rather would strengthen you. Re work your plans if they fail, identify loopholes and use methods which help you overcome these loopholes. Every failure teaches you what to avoid and ends in giving you a big lesson. Learn from these lessons so that you can strengthen the newer you. Try to avoid negative thoughts and people. Such thoughts and words tend to self limit your potential and make you go weak. If you believe in your plans, you focus on your direction and make changes only if you wish to, regardless of what others say. This approach would make you jump over the limitations that block your way. Lastly, you need to enjoy life and take things as they come. When you are happy and content, your mind would work faster and success will come your way. So hold on hard to your dreams, take control of your life and set ahead to enjoy the journey with a newer you. GOAL SETTING Goal setting is an important aspect for anyone to be successful. Goal setting enables you to achieve your tasks in an organized fashion and within the limited time frame. Therefore, it is important that goals are set very carefully. Proper planning is needed for goal setting otherwise one can lost their focus and get side tracked. When you have set your goals, you would not only feel confident about the work you are doing, but you would also prioritize what needs are to be fulfilled first. These raise your motiva-tion and self esteem and you have a positive outlook towards the work that you are doing. While setting goals or even planning for them, you have to make sure that your goals are SMART. That means, they should be: Specific – i.e. to the point Measurable – i.e. you can judge how much of the goal is accomplished Attainable – i.e. they should be within your potential of achievement Realistic – i.e. they should be practically achievable and not something which is vague Timely – i.e. there should be a time frame in which these goals should be achieved So, having a SMART approach while setting goals would make you identify the loopholes, gauge yourself and help you achieve your goals easily. These goals would help you climb the ladder of success in slow but concrete steps. When you have a large goal to achieve, make sure that you divide it into smaller goals which seem easy to achieve. For instance, if you have to submit an important report within a deadline, set smaller goals which would help you achieve your larger goals. In this case, steps such as hypothesis, data collection, result analysis and compila-tion can be the smaller steps which would help to achieve the goal of report submission. Deadlines should always be associated with smaller goals too so that as you cross them, you are aware of your progress and the work done. The major part of goal setting is that it should not be rigid. Goals should be set such that they are attainable and flexible. Flexibility doesn’t mean to be very lenient with the goals, but rather, you should perk up your goal plan as you go along with it. Perking it up would make you correct the problems which you face in the implementa-tion of your goal plan. So, time your goals well, perk them up regu-larly and plan them according to your priorities so that you don’t end up losing the game. There are many types of goals that you can set such as, profes-sional goals, creative goals, personal goals, family goals, educational goals, financial goals and so on. By categorizing your lifetime goals, you would be able to make sure that nothing is left out. Line up your goals so that you know what to prioritize first and when to execute it.

Sample Content Preview Each of these is different and has its own advantages and disadvantages. Here is a brief explanation of each one: Affiliate marketing –– this is where you promote other people’s products and services for a commission. You can promote physical products and / or digital products. The commissions you will earn by promoting physical products are a lot lower than with digital products. It is easier to sell physical products though. CPA marketing –– CPA means Cost Per Action and you will be paid by a CPA network for promoting offers from their clients which do not usually require a sale. For example you can be paid for someone providing their email address to a client. Or participating in a free trial of a product. The commissions are usually lower than with affiliate marketing but more people will complete an action that costs nothing than purchase a product. Creating and selling your own products –– one of the biggest problems with affiliate marketing and CPA marketing is that you are sharing revenue with others. Also the customer is never yours so you cannot contact them in the future to sell them something else. Creating your own products will take time, effort and probably some money. But you will keep all of the sales revenue and the customer will be yours so that you can keep in touch with them regularly. Online store –– people really like to shop online these days. So why not open your own online store and sell your own products or make a commission selling other people’s products? It is not difficult to open an online store. You don’t have to purchase stock either. You can work with a dropshipping company and promote their products for a commission. They will take care of sending the purchased items to the customer and deal with returns etc. Amazon FBA –– FBA means Fulfilled By Amazon. Amazon is the largest retailer in the world. It has a huge amount of visitor traffic and with the FBA program you can sell your products on Amazon. You can source your own products from manufacturers in China for example, and then sell them for a much higher price in western markets. Amazon will take some of the money but you can make good profits with this model. So which of these appeals the most to you? If you are really limited on time then affiliate marketing or CPA marketing could be a good choice. But they do have the drawback of you not owning the customer (there are ways around this). If you have skills and talents that you can sell to others then creating your own products could be just right for you. You can create digital products such as “how to” guides and even video training courses that you can sell from your website and other platforms such as Clickbank.com. It will take a while to create a product so you need to take this into account. If you want to create a video training course then you will need the right recording gear for this such as a good camera and microphone. You will also have to edit your videos so that they are the best they can be. With an online store you have the choice of creating or sourcing your own products or partnering with a dropshipping company and promoting their products. If you are going to create or source your own products then you will need money to invest. Commissions with dropshipping tend to be quite low but it is easy to get started. With Amazon FBA you will definitely have to invest in your own products. You will need to send stock to Amazon on a regular basis to ensure that you are never “out of stock”. There are plenty of manufacturer’s that will brand products with your logo and ship them directly to Amazon for you. You need to factor in all of these costs. Whichever of these online business models you choose you need to find out as much about them as possible. How do the super affiliates make 6 and 7 figures a year from affiliate marketing? What is the best way to find out what a market needs for product creation? Which products will sell well on Amazon? When you start an online business you need to plan for a few months without making any money. Yes it is possible to make money immediately with affiliate marketing and CPA marketing but this doesn’t always happen. If you are in need of making money straight away then start freelancing or completing online jobs at home first. The world of online business and Internet marketing changes all of the time. It is impossible to keep up with everything, but you need to stay in touch with the things that are really important for your online business. Trends change all of the time online. There are tools available to keep you in touch with this such as Google Alerts with a gmail account. Al you have to do is to tell Google what niche you are in and add some keywords and they will send you automatic notifications about what is happening. There is a ton of free stuff online to learn about Internet marketing. You can also find good training courses which will cost you money but they are well worth the investment. Stay away from the hype. A lot of people involved in online business fail to make the money that they want because they don’t focus enough on marketing. They spend too much time creating the perfect website or the perfect product and not enough on driving traffic to their offers. It doesn’t matter how sexy or fancy your website or online store is. If you don’t get visitors to it who are interested in what you have to offer then you won’t make any money online. Marketing is essential for your success. You must identify your target audience. It is really important for you to know as much as possible about them. Who are your potential customers? What age range are they? Are they women or men? Where do they live? What do they like? Where do they hang out online?

Sample Content Preview There are good ways to get rid of clutter and bad ways. The bad way is the route you usually take when you get disgusted with the fact that you have too many things all over the place and decide to get rid of everything. I know this because during a time when I was in the mindset to get rid of all the “clutter” part of it turned out to be my high school yearbook and my mother’s wedding dress that I was holding. Things that cannot be replaced and are gone forever. But such was my zeal to get rid of clutter that I discarded these items without realizing what I was doing. Like every-thing else, clutter has to be evaluated before you get rid of it. And you should also make sure to bear in mind things that other people can use, even if you no longer want them. Another example of how I got rid of clutter was when I moved from my home to a smaller apartment and had a ton of kids toys that my kids no longer used. I ended up with a heap of toys in my driveway ready for the garbage truck. These could have been donated to a number of different charities, but I was so overwhelmed that I just wanted them gone. The good news about this is that my neigh-bours had a field day picking through the garbage and getting them-selves some free goods. It was particularly gratifying to see those who did not want to attend my estate sale in that upscale neighbourhood because they did not want to be seen buying used goods actually climbing the trash heap to get what I now considered to be trash. But that is not the point - the point is that the toys should have been donated and could have been had I been a bit more organized when getting rid of clutter. The good way to get rid of clutter is the way that I now use. I go through my home periodically and get rid of clutter in the places that is most likely collects like the closets. Those coats and other garments that I have not worn for the past year get tossed into a bag for the many organizations that come around to take these items for chari-table causes. Some things, however, are not meant for charity as they are too worn , stained or have something broken, like a zipper. What I do when I want to get rid of clutter is to have two bags, one for items that are to be donated and the other for items that belong in the garbage. Clutter can consist of many different things in your home that you have no use for and you have been accumulating for long time. I used to deal in collectibles and went to many homes where clutter was amok. I’ve seen people who have had basements filled with old magazines and newspapers. Homes where you had to walk a narrow path to get through the house in order to get from one room to the next. This is the result of clutter piling up to the point where it got overwhelming for the person. There are two reasons why people tend to collect a lot of clutter. One reason is that they feel that they have something of value and continue to hang onto items that, in reality, usually have very little or no value. These types of people are those who are afraid to throw anything out less they find that they need it later. Many people have a compulsive disorder to keep everything that they receive, including junk mail, newspapers and other items that people normally throw out, just in case they may want to look at them anyway. Some people just like to hold onto junk. I have a neighbour who is like this and who routinely takes anything out of the trash that I put in. Needless to say, his house is a maze of clut- ter. And to make matters worse, it is a maze of much of my old clutter. The other reason people keep clutter is because they are too over-whelmed to know where to begin when it comes to getting rid of the clutter. Cleaning out an overstuffed closet seems to be a monumental task that they cannot bear to undertake. So the clutter builds and builds. Until they get to the point where they decide to chuck it all and end up getting rid of their yearbook and mother’s wedding dress. Most people fall into the latter category. The easiest way to get rid of clutter in your home is to decide what you want to keep and why. Obviously, things that have senti-mental value or those that are collectible are kept. Clothes that you wear are kept. Other things, however, such as the kids toys that they no longer play with because they’re now teenagers, clothes that you haven’t worn in years and cannot wear even if you wanted to as well as knick knacks, old videos, music and books can be given to many different charities. Electronic equipment also falls into this category. Do you really need that analog TV sitting on the floor of your bedroom when you just bought yourself a flat screen? Many charities will not take elec-tronics, so it is best to advertise them for free on a site like Craig’s List or just to give them to a neighbour or friend who can use it. I give all of my old electronic equipment to my neighbour and save him the trouble of having to go to the trash to get it. I have cut out the middleman with the trash when it comes to this person and now just bring it right to the source. If you know someone who collects all types of junk, you can make their day by giving them stuff you no longer want and save yourself the trouble of having to advertise to get rid of it. Take your time when you are getting rid of clutter. If it seems daunting, give yourself an hour to work on the project and then stop until the next day. Even if you spend a half an hour a day working on what to keep and what to give away or toss, you will start making headway. You do not have to feel as though you need to get rid of clutter all in one day. In our house, books and magazines comprise a great deal of clut-ter. Once every month, therefore, I go through the books that are keepers and those that I will never read again and send them to the Goodwill,. We have four subscriptions to magazines that no one ever seems to read that I bring to the doctor’s office after removing the address and name label. Newspapers get bundled up and recycled. Once a year I go through movies and music that we have hanging about and also donate these items to charity. We are a family that reads quite a bit, listens to music and also accumulates many movies over the course of a year. While some of these items we keep for future use, others are given to charity. People with little children have to be especially vigilant when it comes to toys, stuffed animals and clothes as children outgrow these quickly. Instead of letting all of these items pile up and clutter up closets and playrooms, it is much better to give those that are in good shape to organizations that can sell them for a low price to people who will be grateful to have them. This is a good way for you to teach your children a little bit about compassion and how to not want to hoard everything that they receive. Of course, there are some things that are sentimental to your children that they will not want to get rid of and those should be kept. For example, my daughter, who is now nineteen, still has the Barney doll that she had when she was a year old. Sure, it’s tucked into the corner of her closet in a box so none of her friends can see it, but it’s there and she’s not parting with it. It holds sentimental value.

Sample Content Preview Stress can be one of the most dangerous things in the world. It can cause us to have physical ailments, lower our life expectancy and decrease the effectiveness of our immune systems. It can also leave us vulnerable to people who may be manipulative and who find it easy to prey upon people’s emotions when they are under times of duress. Anyone can feel stressed out. We can all shoulder heavy burdens that can sometimes seem to weigh us down far more than we feel is fair. Stress is the weight of those burdens culminating into our bodies in an often physical way. It is the pain in our chests we feel when we are stricken by how heavy the weight we have to carry is. It is the sharp pain in your head you feel when you are having a conversation that you just don’t feel heard in. It is the tightening of your muscles that you don’t even notice when you find that things just are not going the way you wish they might. Stress can affect us in many ways, and it does. There is no denying how stressful it can be to have many demands placed upon you when sometimes you just don’t know if you can or will be up to the task of performing in a way that proves successful. Many people are defeated by their stress. Many people become physically ill from their stress and are never able to find a way around it. Some people are even triggered into mental illness through their stress, because they may have a predisposition to the illness but being overwhelmed by their burdens is more than they can handle on an emotional, and sometimes physical, level. Stress affects us all because we all have goals in mind and obstacles that arise to prevent us from achieving those goals. We all have to try to think outside the box and find unconventional solutions to issues that we don’t always anticipate facing. Most of us are comfortable and often expect that comfort to last, so when something goes wrong it really throws us for a loop. Others of us have been forced to work hard from day one and are never secure in the things that they have accumulated, and so the insecurity of knowing that the things they work for may not last can cause significant strain. Whatever type of stress you may be more prone to, there are solutions for you. You don’t have to resort to negative coping mechanisms or things that will ultimately make it more difficult for you to achieve your goals. Coping With Stress will help to guide you away from these negative coping mechanisms so you might be able to start your life anew with solutions to issues you may not have even known you have! Biologically speaking, stress is a response that we inherited from our ancient ancestors. Stress is something that was a call to action. If we found ourselves in a situation that could result in either life or death, a stress response would be triggered and we would either fight or run away. Sometimes though, there is also the deer in headlights response. Sometimes, the stress is overwhelming and a decision can’t be reached right away. In that timespan, things freeze up. We find ourselves locking in an effort to figure out the best course of action to take next. People who are unable to reach a decision in time ultimately find that they are losing out because of it. The stress response can either save us or destroy us. And in today’s day and age where our threats are far more modern and require us to be on the ball at all times, ultimately, stress is far more often our destroyer. Our ancient ancestors were able to recognize that their stresses were activated as they attempted to survive. They understood that if they were feeling pressure or stress about something, it was because if they were not able to meet the demands placed upon them, they, or the people they cared most about, could die. Survival is a serious business. It's not so different in today’s day and age. We are still expected to provide for our families and to take care of ourselves. We are expected to hold a job and pay rent and buy our food. We are meant to know that if we don’t follow the rules, we will lose our privileges and freedoms. All of these things are stressful. Everything we do can be considered a means to an end; that end being survival. And when we catch ourselves slipping off the ball, that stress can come at us full force and bring us to a full stop. The deer in headlights effect. And if we find that we are in the headlights and unable to act, then everything begins to fall apart around us. But there is a solution. We do not need to be overwhelmed by stress. There are ways around it, and all of us are able to recognize that stress does not have to rule over us. In Coping with Stress, strategies for coping with these issues are readily available to anyone who is in danger of losing themselves to the stressful situations of every day life.

Sample Content Preview Loving Kindness and Gratitude The key to many forms of meditation then is focus. By learning to choose what you want to pay attention to, you can opt not to focus on the negative or the things that make you stressed. You’ll therefore feel better more of the time, and be less affected by things that would otherwise hurt you. But what if you choose to focus on something that will actively make you extremely happy? This is the idea behind both “loving kindness meditation” AND “gratitude meditation”. In the first example (loving kindness), your objective is to meditate specifically on feelings of warmth, self-love, and kindness. In other words, you will think about things that make you happy, think about people who love you, focus on feelings of love, and focus on the things you love about yourself. Your objective is to cultivate this emotion and then hang on to it – to keep it fresh in your mind and to let it take up the entirety of your focus for a while. By doing this repeatedly, you will be able to not only enjoy that sense of peace and love in any given moment… but also to let it become your default emotion – such that you always feel that way. The other option is gratitude. This is very similar to loving kindness motivation, but the goal this time is to focus on the things that make you feel grateful. What is Enlightenment? Perhaps you have heard of meditation in the context of enlightenment? Maybe you thought you could use meditation to achieve a higher plane of thought? It’s certainly something many people believe, but if meditation is just about focus, how can this be the case? What's all that about? Remember that when you practice transcendental meditation (the kind associated with enlightenment) you use a 'mantra' which is used to try and take your mind off of your usual ruminations (by focussing on the sounds you're making). What happens here is that because you aren't using the areas of your brain that you normally would, these areas can shut down as they would in sleep but with you still awake. Key regions of the brain that usually help us to understand the world around us shut down: such as the region responsible for detecting contrast, or the area associated with identifying edges in the world around us. You even lose the ability to recognize where your own body is in space. This can then alter your perception as you view the world without being able to distinguish between edges, and as you start to lose your sense of self. This removes the 'filters' we normally use to see the world and, in that sense, you are seeing reality in a ‘purer’ sense. This makes an interesting final aim, but of course takes years of practice. Eventually, this can result in total “ego death” (loss of sense of self) which is an extremely liberating experience. Flow States: Mediation While Engaged in a Task In the world of productivity and self-help, the term 'flow state' is used to describe a mental state in which you are able to concentrate unceasingly on a singular task without interruption or distraction. When you reach this state, you are able to hugely increase your productivity and your output and you can this away complete complex tasks in a very short space of time. In short, a flow state is the point at which an activity you are engaged in becomes meditative. Of course, though getting into this flow state is no mean feat, and particularly when our brains are constantly trying to distract us with other things and consistently getting bored. Particularly in the modern reality we're living in where we are used to concentrating on twenty things at once and being constantly entertained through various mediums. The flow state then is something of an elusive concept and a constant goal, in much the same way that someone who meditates regularly might chase after the promise of enlightenment. To help you in your own pursuit of this magical state, or at least to achieve a satisfactory level of concentration, here are a few techniques you can use to help encourage focus and avoid distraction and procrastination. Remove Distractions: One of the best ways you can help to avoid yourself becoming distracted by things is to remove them from your visual field. So, for instance if you are someone who finds yourself distracted by the internet regularly (you are most certainly not alone) then a logical solution is simply to turn off the internet when you are trying to work. And if you find that you struggle with your will power to bring yourself to do this, then an alternative solution is to simply go out to a café to work where there is no internet.

Table of Contents Table of Contents 3 Introduction 5 Getting Started 9 Uncovering Hot Niches 15 Driving Traffic to Amazon 21 Maximizing Sales Quickly 30 The Right Way to Pin Content 36 Resources 40 Sample Content Preview Create attractive, attention-grabbing covers that target specific niche markets, along with high-quality, professional interiors/templates. Your covers won’t always be pretty or even polished, but they will instantly stand out to a segment of your niche. Note: Uploading simple lined journals is a great way to start, but if you really want to boost your income you’ll want to invest in professional interiors that provide customizable layouts. Write keyword-centric blurbs for every book you publish. These will be filled with relevant and targeted keywords that will pull in traffic and help you connect with the right audience of buyers. Once you’ve seen a few sales, identify your bestsellers and focus on creating more of them. Build a brand around a “series” of themed low content books and maximize your income! Now, when it comes to making the most money possible on Amazon, you’ll want to focus on just 3 main things: 1: Finding hot niche markets. This is the most important step when it comes to making money with low-content books. You want to cater to die-hard fans in scorching hot markets who will buy anything that features images or phrases about their hobbies and interests. 2: Creating unique and attractive covers. Notice that I didn’t say pretty? That’s because a bunch of pretty covers won’t likely make you a lot of money. Instead, you want to gear your covers towards what people in that niche are instantly attracted to. 3: Building a Brand. You’re going to build a brand around your best-selling low-content books. That way, you can not only sell more low-content products, but you could branch out and maximize your income by promoting relevant affiliate products. And I’ll throw in a fourth step to consider once you get the hang of this: 4: Experiment with different Interiors. You can start with basic lined-templates for now, but once you’ve cut your teeth on publishing low-content books, you can start to play around with different interior layouts that help you stand apart. They key to this is that we’re maximizing our income while minimizing the time we spend doing it. So, don’t worry about creating elaborate templates or spending too much time on covers when you’re just starting out. The bulk of your time should always be spent on researching markets and uncovering hot niches. Uncovering Hot Niches Finding profitable, underserviced niches is the key to maximizing your income with low-content books. Here’s how to do it: Step 1: Research Consistently There are many ways to uncover hot niche markets, but we’ll start with Amazon since that’s where we’ll be publishing our low-content books. If you plan to publish via Lulu.com, Etsy, or other publishing houses, you should still use Amazon to gauge profitability and overall demand. Here’s the tool I use to simplify the process: Publisher Rocket Publisher Rocket is one of my favorite tools for evaluating the profitability of journals and other low-content books on Amazon. After researching so many different Amazon-based tools, Publisher Rocket seems to be the most reliable when it comes to digging deep into low content book niches to figure out how many books are likely to sell each month. That being said, it’s not uncommon to see a slight fluctuation in estimated book sales from week to week by $200-300 based on recent activity and ranking. With Publisher Rocket, you’re also able to uncover keywords that you’ll use within your book listing and descriptions on Amazon to increase visibility and sell more books. It’s a very useful tool for helping spot hot niche markets. Here are a few other places you can go to find niches with die-hard fans who will gladly buy low-content books: Facebook Groups This is by far one of the easiest ways to scout for hot niche markets. Look for groups that are very specialized and have 200 or more members and are active. You can locate groups at: https://www.facebook.com/groups. Click “Discover” and enter in a few keywords to find relevant groups.

Table of Contents Table of Contents 3 Introduction 5 Get Plenty of Sleep 8 Stay Active 12 Eat Whole Plant Foods 15 Eat Healthy Fats 20 Eat Probiotic-Rich Foods 22 Limit Sugar Intake 24 Stay Hydrated 26 Reduce Stress 29 Quit Smoking 32 Conclusion 34 Resources 37 Sample Content Preview Stay Active Prolonged intense exercise has been shown to lower your immune response – however, moderate exercise actually boosts that response. Studies show that even one session of moderate exercise can increase vaccine effectiveness in those with compromised immune systems. “Working out is a powerful way to boost your immune system,” says Mark Moyad, MD, MPH, Jenkins/Pokempner director of preventative and alternative medicine at the University of Michigan Medical Center. Exercise circulates your antibodies and white blood cells more rapidly, which helps them detect germs more quickly. “Being active this way also lowers stress hormones, which reduces your chances of getting sick,” Moyad adds. According to a recent study of over 1,000 people, those who exercised at least five days a week had almost half the risk of coming down with the common cold than the more sedentary folks. Regular moderate exercise can reduce inflammation, too, and that is known to improve your immune system. Exercise can also help your immune cells to regenerate regularly. Examples of moderate exercise include 30 to 60 minutes of brisk walking, jogging, swimming, steady bicycling, and light hiking three to five times a week. Notice that most of these are associated with the outdoors. There’s a good reason for taking your exercise outside. Sunlight can stimulate your T-cells, special parts of your immune system that help fight off infection. And being outside brings you into contact with phytoncides and other plant products that can boost your immune function. It also boosts Vitamin D levels in your body, which help your immune system further. You should also be doing strength training exercises twice a week to stay at your healthiest. The CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) recommends two and one-half hours of moderate-intensity exercise every week as well as one hour and fifteen minutes of high-intensity aerobic exercise. So, you should exercise regularly and get enough sunlight to boost your immune system and increase your overall health. Eat Whole Plant Foods Today’s processed diet is a major cause of inflammation in the body. Our ancestors ate more raw fruits and vegetables and doctors have proven this is a healthier diet for your immune system (as well as other systems in your body). Whole plant foods are rich in antioxidants and nutrients that strengthen your immune system. Registered dietician Julia Zumpano, RD, LD, had this to say about eating your fruits and vegetables: “Try to eat a wide variety of foods and aim to eat fruit and vegetables from every color of the rainbow.” Eating a colorful diet is not only artistically pleasing, but fresh fruits and veggies are far better for you than processed foods and supplements. Protein is also needed for immune health. Amino acids help build and maintain immune cells and a low-protein diet may reduce your body’s ability to fight off infection. In a 2013 study, mice with a diet of only 2% protein were more severely affected by flu than mice who ate a normal (18% protein) diet. There are three main vitamins needed by your immune system: Vitamin C, Vitamin B6 and Vitamin E. Vitamin C is one of the essential vitamins needed by your immune system. It’s important for you to get plenty of natural Vitamin C from your diet because your body doesn’t store that vitamin. Anything you don’t use is flushed from the body by your kidneys. The good news is that you can easily get enough Vitamin C from food without spending money on supplements. Fruits and vegetables rich in Vitamin C include citrus fruits (and their juice), strawberries, bell peppers, broccoli, kale, and spinach. Another immune system-boosting vitamin is B6 or pyridoxine. It’s a water-soluble vitamin that isn’t made in your body, so you need to eat the right foods to get enough for your immune system. Natural sources of B6 include chicken or turkey and cold-water fish like salmon or tuna. You can also get Vitamin B6 from green vegetables and chickpeas (the main ingredient in hummus). So even if you’re vegan you can get plenty of B6 to strengthen your immune system. Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin that is a powerful antioxidant. It’s found in nuts, seeds, and spinach. You do need to be more careful with Vitamin E because, since it’s stored in your fat, can actually build up in your body to dangerous levels.

Sample Content Preview If that isn’t happening, as it often doesn’t when we are living on the Standard American Diet, then we begin to slow our functioning. We get dull and foggy in the mind, our limbs and reflexes may be slower, and often we sink into anxiety or depression because our bodies are stressed out a lot more easily without the proper nutrition. It is incredibly important to make sure we are eating right and exercising, and in following a Paleo lifestyle, we cut out the bad things like fast food and fatty things and focus exclusively on only the foods that will help us to thrive. That is what the Paleo lifestyle is all about. While you may be intimidated by the prospect of going Paleo, there really isn’t all that much to worry about. The most important thing to keep in mind when you are attempting to develop a new lifestyle is that old habits die hard, but they die faster if you forgive yourself for having them developed. We all have routines hard-wired into our minds. Our neural pathways are rife with reflexes and patterns that we have developed over a long period of time. If you have spent the majority of your life living on the SAD diet, you can’t expect yourself to give it up overnight. You have to ease into it and allow yourself to healthily let go of old habits as you begin to formulate better ones. Building habits is perhaps the most important key in maintaining any new lifestyle, and in the book, Living Paleo will help you to begin strategizing exactly how you will be able to do that for yourself. Whether you decide going Paleo is for you or not, building healthy habits is an experience that everybody should know how to do. It not only allows us to be our best selves possible, but it can also be a great confidence booster to know that when you have a goal in mind, you also have the resources at your disposal to see it through! That is taking your life to the next level. The other thing you are going to need is patience and drive. It isn’t just about cutting certain foods out of your life and learning new recipes. It’s about understanding the importance of changing things for good so that you never go back to living in ignorance about the things you are doing to hurt yourself. It can be a slippery slope to fall back into a bad lifestyle, and we may feel comfortable in it because we have done it for so long. But at the end of the day, there is part of ourselves that is shameful and angry that we are making choices that are self-destructive, and that type of stress can lead to anxiety, depression, and even illness. You have to believe that you are worth the positive changes in your life. You have to get rid of the obstacles by facing yourself and understanding exactly what it is that you do to hold yourself back. A lot of people are afraid of success. It isn’t uncommon. So learn yourself and figure out how you can embrace a better life by putting your fears to rest. It isn’t all that difficult. You have to be able to hold yourself accountable for your setbacks and get back on the horse. If you’re going to have a cheat day, make sure you are cheating so well you won’t be tempted to do it again for a while, then forgive yourself for it and go back to your healthy eating. It’s a lifestyle, not a prison sentence. You don’t have to be cruel to yourself to be healthy. Just do your best. That’s all it really takes, and of course you can do it! Going Paleo is a lot more simple than it looks. Go through the foods you already have. If you want to eat them all up, go for it. If you want to give them away, you could do that too. If you want to keep them around, that probably isn’t such a good idea but that is your choice to make. If you want to straight out throw them in the trash can, you do what you have to do to make your lifestyle better. The Paleo diet is simple and exquisite. It will be very easy for you to find recipes you like because it doesn’t limit you from everything. It simply cuts out the foods that Paleolithic man wouldn’t have had access to. Foods that became popular upon the advent of modern farming. Dairy products, grains like bread, legumes, and other processed, refined products like sugars or excessive salt. It’s a simple diet and it works wonders.

Sample Content Preview Making a WordPress website is a very simple and straightforward process, which is precisely what makes it so useful. With WordPress anyone can start their own business and there are no longer obstacles to worry about like programming skills or the complication involving uploading articles and code to a server. With WordPress everything is right there for you and all you have to do is to use the helpful UI in order to select pictures, type your content and set the design and style. To demonstrate, here are the very basic steps you’ll need to take to get started. Decide on Your Package First of all you need to decide how you want to implement a WordPress site. In short there are two ways to do this. One is to sign up for a WordPress site that will remain on their own servers. If you opt to go this route then your website will have a longer URL that includes the ‘wordpress.com’ prefix. At the same time you won’t ‘own’ the space and won’t be able to edit the code in the same way nor upload large media like films. It’s not a professional solution if you want to run a business site, but for a hobbyist it’s free and easy. The more professional option is to buy your own server space and URL and to then upload the WordPress files onto it. To do this you will download them from the WordPress website, and will then drag and drop the folder into your file manager/FTP. You can from here simply navigate your browser to the ‘install.htm’ file and the rest will be handled for you. Using the UI Once you have signed in you will be presented with a control panel from which you can edit your site. It is a simple matter here of writing into the box on the right and pressing post in order to post new content, but that is not all you will want to do. One of the first things you should do is to change the appearance of the blog, and one of the first ways you will do that is to change the header. You can do this under the themes section and this way you can choose to upload a big picture of your choosing. Make sure it is something that is evocative of what your blog is about and trying to communicate, but at the same time that it doesn’t make the title too difficult to read. You might also want to change the theme for another one. Here you can brose a range of free and paid ones and this will dictate where your text is in relation to the header, links etc. The great news is that you can opt to change this at any future point and your existing content will simply be moved to fit around it. The good news is that within a couple of hours, most people can have the bare bones of a website to call their own. And a few hours after that, it will have a great and unique design that draws in visitors and helps them to start turning a profit. 4. It’s Liberating Going back to the topic of passive income, the real reason that this is such a huge advantage is that it means you can work how and where you like. This makes working online the perfect option if you have any interest in the burgeoning concept of “lifestyle design.” So, what is lifestyle design? Essentially, it means that instead of designing your life to fit around your job, you will do the opposite and pick a job that can fit around the lifestyle you want. In this case, we’re talking about internet marketing. Think about it: there is now no reason to work a 9-5 set day. There is no requirement to work 8 hours at all in fact! Likewise, there is no requirement to work five days a week. Want to work four days a week and maybe do a little extra work on a Monday? Go for it! Likewise, you can choose to work out of your office wearing nothing but pajamas. But you can also choose to take your laptop and go and sit in a coffee shop to watch the world go by. Or how about you take that laptop again and this time go and sit on the beach? Or in your garden? If you’re lucky enough to live somewhere beautiful, or with famous sites, then you can sit and work by those. When I lived in London, I would often sit and work in a coffee shop overlooking the houses of parliament and London Eye. Quite a view! When I lived by the beach, I used to work in a hammock with a cocktail and watch people swimming and surfing. And of course, you can take this whole concept even further if you so wish and become a digital nomad. That’s someone who doesn’t have a set home or base at all, and instead opts to travel the world with their laptop, working whenever the opportunity presents itself.