As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been reading a lot about food. Right now I am reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Debt Free
I saw a site today that promised to show you how to get rid of all your debt…even your mortgage….in 3-5 years. It would only cost you $47 to download their free e-book that would give you all the secrets of becoming debt free. Well, I can tell you in two words how to become debt free. Quit charging! Quit using your credit cards, quit borrowing money, quit taking out loans. Keep making your payments and eventually you will be debt free.
Getting Organized
Lately I have been having trouble focusing. I do a little on this project, a little on that….and nothing gets done! There is nothing like a bunch of half finished projects staring at you. It makes me just want to go back to bed!
But then I remembered something I’d read somewhere…. (there’s that scattered brain again, something…somewhere!). It said that chaos on the outside was a reflection of chaos on the inside.
The 9 Adwords Tips You Were Never Told
Someone in the Earner’s Forum asked me the other day for some quick tips on Google Adwords. I have been quite successful with Adwords, and so my post got longer and longer as I thought of things, and each one seemed more important than the last-It occurred to at that point that this would make a pretty good article, as it’s something lots of people participate in, and I don’t feel that many people get as much out of it as they should do! I think it’s a pity because in the work at home and home business arenas, some decent Adwords skills can make a huge amount of difference to your online money making! With that in mind, here are my 9 Adwords Tips You Were Never Told!
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Real Food
I have been reading about food a lot lately. Not cookbooks and such, but books that have caused me to think about where my food comes from, how is it produced, how safe is it to eat?
It used to be easy, I would buy what was cheap, and try not to buy too much junk. As long as we were eating meat and vegetables and fruit and bread and milk, I assumed we were eating a good diet. Then I heard about the amounts of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers used in commercial agriculture. So I went to organic foods, and whole grains. No more white flour for me! I felt pretty good about that. Then I discovered the evils of high fructose corn syrup(HFCS) and hydrogenated fats, and tried to avoid them. (HFCS is in everything!) Then I read about eating local. Those organic grapes lost some of their appeal when I realized how much fuel was required to ship them from Chili. So I started eating more locally produced food.Thank goodness I live in California! As long as I define local as within 200 miles, I can get almost everything I usually eat. Make a few exceptions…for coffee and such. Whew, That wasn’t too tough!
Like I said, I have reading about food, and I am amazed at how many different ways our food choices impact our health, and our world. Over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing with you the different books I have been reading and the changes I have been making in my familes diet. The changes that have been hard, and the changes that have been surprisingly easy.
Hmm. Now I’m hungry. I’m off to get a slice of homemade whole wheat bread. I think I’ll put some organic butter and some local cold pack honey on it. Num
How to Find Happiness
The Positivity Blog has a great post on happiness. The post looks back 2500 years to find wisdom on how to find happiness in your life.
How to Find Happiness: 7 Timeless Tips From the Last 2500 Years
What do you want?
A great job?
A fulfilling relationship?
Go sailing around the Pacific for a few years in your very own luxurious boat?
Or just to get along better with yourself?
Perhaps you want one of more of those things. But beneath those and many common wishes, if you take it a step further, often lies a wish to find happiness.
One good way to find a few useful, life-improving and time-tested tips is to look back. To look way back through history. To find ideas that have arisen in minds over and over the last few thousand years. Here are seven such ideas about how you can find happiness. Maybe you´ll find them helpful.
Make Money with My Power Mall
So many “make money online” deals start with you paying money. It might be $149.95 or $49.95 or even a bargain $9.95. For that you’ll get an eBook, or a “money making system”, or an “exclusive membership”. You haven’t even gotten started and already you are in the hole!
My Power Mall is different! It is FREE! Free to join, Free to use. It doesn’t cost you anything! My Power Mall is a shopping rebate site, with a twist. Sign up for a personal mall, and you get large rebates on all your online shopping. Sign up for a Business Mall, and you can build a team and earn even more money. Then all you do is shop, and invite others to shop at My Power Mall.
Now you are probably thinking that you have to pay inflated prices at stores you’ve never heard of. But you would be wrong! Here’s a list at just some of the stores you can shop at. Sears, Target, Kohls, Overstock.com., Gap, Circuit City, Starbucks, Ralph Lauren, Linens ‘n Things, Office Max, Macy’s… the list goes on and on. The prices are the same as if you went to the online store directly.
Now here is the deal…
I WANT YOU ON MY TEAM!
We’ll work together to make sure everyone profits!
Remember, it costs nothing to sign up. There are no quotas, no meetings, no marketing materials you need to buy. You can create your own team, or just shop for yourself. Either way you earn rebates.
Making Money on the Web
I have been spending quite a bit of time, looking for ways to make money on the web. Something where I can just sit at my computer and watch the bank balance go up.
I haven’t found it yet.
I’ve been wondering how many people actually are making money with a solely web-based business. Does affiliate marketing work? How about Adsense and other advertising programs? In this research I found one site particularly helpful. It is SitePoint.com. They have a marketplace section where people can buy and sell established websites. In doing so, the sellers disclose how much money they are making from the site.
There are lots of sites that are don’t have much content, that are really just trying to get people in to click on the ads. For the most part, they were not making enough to cover the hosting fees. The sites that did do well offered real products, or real information. A site that people would want to go to.
I have to go work on my content….. 😉
What If…?
What if there were no free templates on the web?
What if sites like WordPress, Joomla, and Blogger didn’t exist?
What if there were no free tutorials, forums, or discussions where you could get your questions answered?
Could you afford to have a website?
I couldn’t.
What if your favorite website was ugly and disorganized?
What if it was full of spelling errors and typos?
What if it was hosted on a server that was slow and buggy?
Would it still be your favorite website?
I don’t think so.
What if you had to pay to watch the news, check your stocks, or get a weather report.
What if you had to go to the library to do research, for school, for work, or for your child’s medical problem?
What if the world didn’t know you existed because there was no MySpace?
Could you get as much done?
I couldn’t.
Please support your favorite websites. I know many people work very hard to provide all the great resources on the web. Most are doing it for free or very little money. So please, buy the product, make a donation, or just click on an ad that interests you.
Just think…
What if there were no GAMES!
Is Hoodia Gordonii Safe To Use?
Article By: Vanessa Doctor
The South African wonder plant Hoodia Gordonii has recently climbed the ranks as an effective weight loss supplement, bringing health observers to predict that it will soon reach the popularity that the likes of L-carnitine and Senna have enjoyed for the past years.
However, as with any other herb or pill claiming to promote faster weight loss, the question still remains: is hoodia gordonii safe to use?