The first question that I address on my new site allTHEanswers is “Why do I need a Life Coach?”

Life Coach?

I am currently studying to be a Life Coach. I am loving the course and finding that I am  learning a lot about myself along the way. And learning ways to improve my life at the same time.

It might sound funny at first to have a life coach. I mean, everyone lives their lives from day to day. Why on earth would you need a “coach” to make it through? The point is not just making it through life. Rather, it has much more to do with actually getting something out of life, making a better life for yourself and your loved ones, fulfilling yourself and enjoying every minute of the life you get to experience.

Sports teams have coaches, to help them meld as a team, improve their play and win games. So too, in business and in life, individuals can and do benefit from having a life coach.

In order to make the most of your 70 plus years here on earth, you should really consider the services of a life coach. Why, you may be asking? Life coaches add considerable value to your life and your business. The following list of benefits should help you understand just why life coaching is vital to your happiness and success in all that you pursue.

Life Coaches Listen
A life coach is much like a therapist, in a way, because they are hired to listen to you. However, a life coach is much more intent on actively helping you change your life for the better and moving forward, rather than dwelling on the past. A life coach is great because he or she is paid to listen to you. Unlike with a friend, you do not have to reciprocate. This is a one-sided relationship all in your favour.

Life Coaches Keep You Focused
Life coaching can help you stay on the path you wish to stay on in life. For many people, it is difficult to actively pursue their goals. In fact, for many people it is difficult to set proper goals in the first place. With a life coach, you will be pushed to define what your real goals in business or in life are and complete the tasks you wish to complete. Rather than relying on your own gumption, you will have the external pressure of a life coach to push you in the direction you want to go…. to be your conscience in fact. It’s an extremely helpful method of creating goals and sticking to them until they are achieved.

Life Coaches Always Tell the Truth
Unlike friends in your life, a life coach will always tell you the truth about yourself. Don’t expect to be pandered or to be told what you want to hear by a life coach. That’s what the other people in your life are for. A life coach can provide you with an objective view of yourself and your life. This is very beneficial when you are facing tough decisions or trying to make excuses to get out of a tough situation.

Life Coaches Help You Overcome Obstacles
If you are facing obstacles in your life, a life coach can help build you up and overcome them. Whether it is weaknesses, fears or bad habits, such as procrastination, a life coach can teach you to reach down deep in order to harness the strength you didn’t know you had.

Would you like to study to become a Life Coach. I am studying with an excellent coach, based in Los Angeles and it is all done online. Have a look here at the course I am taking. You will be thrilled with what you will learn about yourself along the way.
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I wrote about this saying, Everybody Dies, but not Everybody Lives, in an earlier post and it continues to receive many hits.  And so here you will find some further insights into the concept of living one’s life to the fullest.

Diagnosed with cancer, Bruce Feiler worried first about his young family. So — as he shares in this funny, rambling and ultimately thoughtful talk — he asked his closest friends to become a “council of dads,” bringing their own lifetimes of wisdom to advise his twin daughters as they grow.

Bruce Feiler is the author of nine books, including Walking the Bible, Abraham, and America’s Prophet. He is also the writer/presenter of the PBS miniseries Walking the Bible. His latest book, The Council of Dads, tells the uplifting story of how friendship and community can help one survive life’s greatest challenges. Learn from his story to not give in to the wall, to smell the roses and to take a long, slow walk. In the end, one must believe in oneself fully.

Behold the world in pause. Sit back, go to full screen and listen to Bruce’s story, and wonder at his courage and his convictions and beliefs about life and death.

We relish the security a family unit brings, we thrive in the love of our parents and siblings, and in the acceptance of our extended family.

I have just designed my life’s mission with my coach and mentor, and the first of three parts of my life mission is “To be a Great Dad”.

But we as humans are not alone. Watch this amazing 3.55 minute footage of a young bear, threatened by a cougar, a scene from the world renowned film, The Bear, by Jean-Jacques Annaud.  It will show you that animals can feel fear, desperation and despair and then relish the protection and love of a parent.

Enjoy and learn a little more about how alike animals and humans really are.

Do you know which common food that you can get right at your local grocery store or farmers market that will reduce your blood pressure significantly while boosting your immune system and protecting you from cancer at the same time?

If you ate a green salad with fresh chopped tomatoes, then you not only got a healthy dose of this powerful antioxidant, but you have also taken significant action toward lowering your blood pressure. A recent double-blind study conducted in Israel has confirmed what heart-healthy Italians have enjoyed for centuries – tomatoes (and tomato sauce) lower blood pressure and the risk of heart disease. And yes, a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.

I was suffering hypertension in 2006, just at the time I was trying to sell my restaurant, and was put onto medication for high blood pressure by my doctor. At the time, he told me it was unlikely that I would ever come off the medication. But not knowing what I am about to share with you here, but because I loved tomatoes. I ate a lot of them. Within two years, my doctor found my blood pressure to be on the low side, so took me off the medication. And to this day, my blood pressure is normal – 124/78 when it was measured this week, in fact.

The Israeli study was led up by Dr. Esther Paran, head of the hypertension division of Soroka Medical Center. It involved patients who were already being treated for hypertension, but were not responding well to the medications. Dr. Paran had patients take a supplement of tomato extract. The results were a significant drop in blood pressure after just four weeks.

Tomatoes are so effective at lowering blood pressure because they contain lycopene. This potent antioxidant is even the focus of some hybrid tomatoes grown by the Israeli company, Lycomato, in order to have higher concentrations of lycopene in each piece of fruit. Other antioxidants found in tomatoes make this one super-food in the prevention of heart disease.

It can even help keep LDL cholesterol from oxidizing which makes it stick to the arteries and narrow the passage way causing blood pressure to increase.

Even during the peak growing season it can be difficult to consume four whole tomatoes each day, which is the recommended amount for having a positive impact on blood pressure. Here are some ways to get the benefits of tomatoes without having to eat them straight off the vine.

1. Make Chili. Using tomato puree, which is a concentrated form of tomatoes, as the base for your chili utilises the antioxidants without the bulk of a whole tomato. Add some ultra-lean and high protein ground bison or turkey and kidney beans with minced garlic and onions, and cayenne pepper and you have a heart-healthy main  course and a full day’s allowance of tomato.

2. Since using olive oil with the tomatoes enhances the curative quality, make your pasta sauce red with tomatoes, tomato paste and olive oil to sauté the garlic and onion. Tomato  paste used in making sauce contains more than 10 times the nutrients of a single tomato.

3. Have a fresh salad as a side dish to either of these entrees and cut one whole tomato on top. You’ll get one-quarter of you tomato intake right there.

Make your own Juice

4. Drink tomato juice. It is better to make your own fresh juice so that you can control the sodium. Store bought juices can be high in sugar and sodium-based preservatives. If you have a juicer, you can make some incredible veggie juices to suit your own tastes by adding carrots, celery and some low-sodium seasonings.

5. Take a tomato supplement. If you just can’t stomach tomatoes, then a 200 mg supplement provides the equivalent of more than the recommended four tomatoes.

Adding tomatoes to your diet can reduce systolic blood pressure by 10 points and diastolic pressure by 4 points as was evident in the Israel study. Whatever way you slice it, tomatoes will keep strengthen your immune system and lower blood pressure.

If you think there is even a remote chance that you might have high blood pressure – and especially if you are overweight – please get it checked. Left un-treated, high blood pressure is a life or death matter.

If you’ve already been diagnosed with high blood pressure, then it’s urgent to take steps to lower it immediately. Your doctor may have immediately recommended that you go on medication.

I recommend that you follow the advice of your physician to a T. However, if you do not like the idea of staying on drugs for the rest of your life (which are very expensive and have many potential side effects), then I strongly urge to you to do some research on your own about all the natural alternatives to pharmaceuticals.

You would be surprised at how many options you have: Simple lifestyle changes, inexpensive natural supplements and even regular foods you can buy at your local grocery store have all been proven to improve heart health and reduce blood pressure. When you combine these strategies all together as in Frank’s 60-day system, the results are multiplied (and it probably explains why, if you tried a single natural remedy in the past, it did very little
or nothing at all)

And did you know that many of these natural methods can also help you lose weight too? Frank Mangano’s e-book, “The Blood Pressure Miracle” is an ideal place to begin your natural health research, and when you consider that a one year supply of Calcium Channel Blockers costs between $740 to $990 and Frank’s program only costs $27.97, then I think you can see that you owe it to yourself to become as educated as possible about all your options.

Check out Frank’s e-book for natural blood-pressure reducing methods here : Get The Details Here Now

Sore Eyes?

More and more jobs require the use of computers. With the information age being available on the computer, more and more people are spending endless hours in front of the screen. I spend quite a few hours a day in front of my laptop screen and do notice some eye strain.

After a long day in front of the computer, it is common to start feeling tired, irritable, or experience pain in the eyes or head. Staring at computers and forgetting to relax and give the eyes a break can cause permanent damage and eye problems. No one is expected to live a life without computers; we all need them and are use to them being a part of our daily lives.

However, it is important to listen to our bodies and relax or take a break when necessary. Listen to your body; it knows better than you do when it’s time for a break.

Eyes still sore?

• Do not work until your eyes burn; you missed all the previous signs.
• Take short breaks every hour of work. This means you should get up at least once every hour and walk around.
• However, taking breaks isn’t enough. Look away from the screen every 15-20 minutes for a minute or two. Look at things close and far away to allow the eyes to adjust and move around. The goal is to avoid the strain in the first place.
• Blink as often as you can to keep the eyes lubricated. Take a few minutes to roll the eyeballs around; you can do this with your eyes open or closed to avoid looking silly. Open and close your eyes often to give them a short break.
• Yawn if you have too. Yawning stretches out the jaw muscles and keeps them from becoming tense causing headaches and eyes strain.
• Move around as much as possible. You should always be in a comfortable position so adjust your body or chair as often as needed.

Cup Cake with Sore Eye

• Move the keyboard or monitor so you aren’t stretching your neck or looking at things at a strange angle. Try to avoid glare on the monitor, so move it around as the sun moves or get a screen protector.
• Keep the work area bright and well lit. Bright lights lighten up the mood and keep you feeling positive. Dim lights only bring down your mood and cause you to feel sluggish.

Making minor changes in the work space and taking breaks often can keep long hours in front of the computer from permanently damaging the eyes.

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Here’s to great eyesight and improved vision going forward.

Their reasoning was simple. People on eBay were looking to spend money, and they had the $$ to buy what they were looking for, if the price was right and you had the product that they were looking for.

One way to start an eBay business, they advised, was to start by selling stuff round the home that you no longer had a use for. So, I thought, that sounded like a good plan, and I do have a few storage units with unwanted ‘stuff’ in, so this week I started my eBay adventure. This also tied in with my desire to get rid of messes – something my mentor and coach was suggesting. And I was also keen to declutter my life. I have been a bit of a hoarder all my life. Does this sound like you?

I listed a few small things that I no longer had a need for and sold them all by the end of today. That is the good news. But in the process I learned a few lessons worth sharing here.

Lesson 1 – know the area you want to sell to. The first item I listed for sale was an almost new Kambrook 1600 Jaguar Vacuum Cleaner. My mistake here was twofold. First I listed it on eBay.com, and put a starting price at 0.99c. Well, it sold, but to a buyer in the United States, who was the only bidder, at 0.99c. I had to write to him and apologise that the Vacuum Cleaner was only for sale to people who lived in Sydney, as they had to come and collect it in person. I haven’t heard back from him yet. OOPS!

Lesson 2 – allow for postage costs - Well, I sold a set of plates and bowls in a very attractive blue and white pattern for all of $3.75 - with no reserve price, but at least there were 3 people bidding for it. Again, not enough to cover the postage, so now I know to always allow for postage costs.

Lesson 3 – set a reserve price. The third item I sold was a Wedgewood plate, brand new, still in its box – and it also went for 0.99c, as there was only one bidder. I again forgot to put a reserve price on it, so that has gone to a good home and at a bargian price. At least here I did put a $10 postage cost on it, so hopefully that will be enough to cover the postage. I thought it would be worth at least $100 or so.

Lesson 4 – you can sell anything on eBay. The fourth item I sold was a set of four glass coasters – I have no idea where I got them – but I did sell them for 0.99c as well, so that just goes to show that you can actually sell anything on eBay.

To make sure you don’t make the same mistakes as I have made, why not have a look here. This set of videos will give you all the information you need to start your own online marketing business, whether on eBay, developing your own website, becoming an affiliate for someone else’s online products, or in a number of other ways.

And if you do start to sell stuff on eBay, take note of my lessons here. Good Luck.

Read about the first 8 ways to be more successful here. Thanks to my coach and mentor Raymond Aaron, for these ideas.

This post is longer than normal but it is filled with great wisdom and experience.

9 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Opening a YouTube Account  – Register with YouTube. It’s really, really easy and you can also include your photo and a bio about yourself. Just your bio and photo will attract prospects and customers. Have you opened your YouTube account?

10 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Posting Your Videos Now -  Take lots of videos and simply begin posting them. If you have a video recorder, then use it. If you don’t, simply go to a high tech store and buy a FLIP cam. I have one and they cost about $160. Just make a video and post it. It does not have to be great; you just need to get started. And, here is a hot tip for you. Take whatever is exciting in the news and think of some bridge that will allow you to begin with the hot news and then bridge to your topic. For example, Obama’s Presidency is still hot news and maybe you are a Realtor or Estate Agent. Then make a video which begins with the question “How will Obama’s presidency impact real estate prices?” and then answer that question to the best of your ability. In the tags, you can list “Obama” and “inauguration” besides the ones you would have used anyway like “real estate”, or “property.” In this way, all the people who use Google or YouTube to search for “Obama” – tens of millions of them – have some chance of getting to your video. Are you posting your own videos on your YouTube account?

11 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Opening a facebook Page and a facebook Fan Page – It’s really easy. You will be shocked – almost immediately, people will find you and ask if they can be your facebook Friend. I accept everyone, even if I do not recognize them. Once you have a page, open a group which is a group of people you want to sell to. If you are a Realtor in Miami, then open a group called “Get Rich In Real Estate In Miami” or “Sell Your Home Fast in Miami” or “Buy Real Estate at HUGE discounts in Miami”. People will join and then you can send messages to them. They will be your clients. And, it’s free. This is, by the way, how Obama won the election – he was more savvy about facebook and the other social networking sites than McCann. Now, it’s your turn. Have you opened a facebook page and have you opened a facebook Fan Page?

12 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by opening a Twitter account - I (that is Raymond) had never even heard of Twitter. Then someone asked me to follow them. I did because I knew that person well. So, I opened an account – it took seconds – and then I sat and waited. Wow. Today, thousands of people follow me. Have you opened a Twitter page? I (that is me, Stuart) have a Twitter account. Follow me at stufish7.

13 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by “Salting” Your Clients and Prospects – You can lead a horse to water, and you CAN make him drink!! Just salt the oats. Just add salt to the horse’s rations of oats and then when he gets to the water, he will drink like crazy!! You can do the same process with your clients and prospects. Get them all excited about something so that they are really eager when the time comes. Have you committed to at least experimenting with this idea of “salting” your clients and prospects?

14 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Inspiring Your Clients – “Snowmen fall to earth, unassembled” – It is your job to see snow, but envision snowmen. Most people see snow, and envision traffic jams and snow-shoveling. “You never know how far you can go till you risk going too far” T. S. Eliot – You will have fun taking risks. It’s way more fun than watching TV!! Take risks in your life and in your business. In which ways are you risking going too far to inspire your clients?

15 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Finding a Product or Service you can Sell – Start by creating an educational product on anything you know even a little about. How are you offering the same products and services you’ve offered for years? That is not a good recipe for success. Be bold.

16 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Getting Content for your Products – If you do not know much, then interview those who are really knowledgeable. If you like chocolate cookies, then interview people who are expert at making them and selling them and then you have a product!! Also, video tape them and use those videos on YouTube to sell your website and product. Or, sell the videos.

If you would like to find out how to start your own online internet business, have a look at this great information here. An example, too, of a video in action.

There are THREE ways to get great content – for free – which you can then sell for money !! Here are the three ways:

Your own Wisdom … You already know a certain amount about the topic. Type, audio or videotape what you know.

Google … Simply type your questions or issues into Google and get lots of information.

Experts … Interview experts in your field. Interview anyone making a lot of money doing what you do. Why will experts give you their wisdom for free? Because Experts LOVE to share what they know. Audio or video their interviews and you suddenly have wisdom in your educational products.

These are 16 ways to double your income. My coach and mentor, Raymond Aaron uses all 16. And I am starting to use more and more of them.

Select ONE that resonates with you and begin it.

Good Luck and Best of Success!

Thanks to my coach and mentor, Raymond Aaron, for these ideas.

1 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Learning What Your Clients Want  – How are you learning what your clients and prospects really want? Listen carefully. Do surveys. Talk to them. Read their comments cards. Sell them what they just told you they want.

2 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Interacting With Your Clients – You can interact with your clients and prospects in many ways: by inviting them to join you on facebook, by inviting them to join you on Twitter, by inviting them to watch your videos on YouTube, by answering EVERY single comment left on your blog. Now, think of ways you can interact more with your clients and prospects to find out what they REALLY want.

3 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Solving Their Problems – By messages that come to you through Twitter, facebook, comments on your blog, emails to you, questions asked on your Teleseminars, and in many other ways, you can learn of problems which your clients and prospects have and then solve them. This creates wonderful feelings of reciprocity which supports sales. How are you finding out about, and then solving, the problems of your clients and prospects?

4 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Encouraging People To Refer Their Friends – How are you encouraging referrals? How are you asking your friends to send their friends to you for your services?

5 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Being Enthusiastic – You must be excited and eager and fun-loving. Your prospects most likely will like you if you are even more enthusiastic. What one way can you enact right now to be more enthusiastic for your clients and for yoru business?

6 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Offering, then Delighting, then asking for the Sale – You are reading this post, maybe only because it is free. You get value. Hopefully you get HUGE value. Later, I may offer a product. If you like what you got free, you will more likely be agreeable to invest in wonderful educational products. How are you first offering free stuff to and delighting your clients and prospects?

7 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Offering Options to your Clients – Offer lots of options. Make sure your clients and prospects can get your information: by Teleseminar live, by archived Teleseminar later, by blog, by ezine article, by Special Report, by eBook etc. How are you offering options to your clients and prospects so that they can get what you offer in the way(s) they prefer?

8 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Starting a Blog – When you launch a blog, you may get only dozens of hits a month, then after a while there may be many, many thousands of visits a month. Google highly respects blogs because they offer fresh new contest regularly. Start your blog and talk about what you are passionate about and whatever you sell. People will actually begin reading it. It’s free and it’s easy. Simply go to the WordPress website and fill in the blanks .

Follow my blog 4abettalife Blog at www.stufish7.wordpress.com.

Have you launched your blog yet?

Well this short video landed in my facebook intray this morning and made me smile, and all the rest.

It beautifully summarises all that I have written about on 4abettalife Blog over the last  2 years.

Please watch it on full screen – that will make it come alive for you.

I hope you enjoy it, save it, and watch it every Monday morning……. and then do just a few of the many things that it suggests.

I guarantee you will have a wonderful week if you do.

You switched off, didn't you?

You turned off the lights, the TV and other electrical appliances last night from 8:30 to 9:30 didn’t you? Well I hope you did.

But if that is all you are going to do, then you will help demonstrate that Earth Hour is just a symbolic event to make us all feel better about the planet, and nothing more.

In its 5th year, more than 1,300,000,000 people - that’s a fifth of the planet’s population - is estimated to have taken part in the Earth Hour switch-off.

That is, in itself, a huge achievement, and congratulations to everyone who did take part.

I was with friends and we had 5 candles, one for each of the years that Earth Hour has been going.

But what now? Unless we are happy to leave Earth Hour as a purely symbolic event, we need to start to do things differently from now on. Both us as individuals and us as governments and big businesses.

We only have one planet, and our planet only has us to look after it. So we all, all 1.3billion of us who turned off our lights, should start to look at ways to make a real difference.

• Why not turn off all lights that you don’t need on, all the time?
• Why not switch off appliances at the plug point, as they still consume power on standby?
• Why not dry your washing on the line, or on a clothes horse, rather than run the energy chewing tumble drier for each load of washing?
• Why not recycle EVERYTHING that can be recycled, rather than just the obvious, like the daily newspaper and the milk bottles.

Look here for many more ideas on steps to take to make Earth Hour a meaningful and sustaining event.

You might be just one of the 6.5 billion people on planet earth. But it has to start somewhere, so why not let it start with YOU!.

Get some ideas here now, and make a start – make a difference.

Give planet earth a chance.

Save money and save Earth.

Thank you