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Introduction

Hello and welcome to our short, introductory weight loss guide for beginners. I hope you will join us right through to the end as we embark on a discovery of simple secrets to permanent weight loss.

According to a survey done in 2014 by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, over 70% of the population in the United States are considered overweight, obese, or extremely obese.

When looking at statistics like this, it’s no surprise that heart disease is the leading cause of death among Americans considering it’s one of the biggest side effects of being overweight.

Dangers of Being Overweight

If you are overweight, you are putting yourself at an increased risk of developing a number of dangerous health conditions.

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Although genetic and other lifestyle factors do come into play when it comes to many of these conditions, obesity will certainly increase your risk of developing them.
Here are some of the conditions that obesity increases your risk of developing:

• Heart disease
• Stroke
• High blood pressure
• Diabetes
• Gallbladder disease
• Gallstones
• Osteoarthritis
• Gout
• Sleep apnea
• Asthma
• Cancer

Why Lose Weight

In addition to decreasing or even eliminating your risk of developing these conditions, there are a number of reasons that you will want to lose weight if you are obese.

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Here, we’re going to list just some of the advantages to losing extra weight and getting your body to a normal, healthy body weight. Some may surprise you, but studies have proven all of these benefits of losing weight.

Here are some of the benefits of losing excess weight:

• Higher salary/pay
• Improved cognitive function
• Food tastes better
• Increased libido
• Decreased dependency on certain medications
• Less general pain/discomfort
• Better sleep
• More energy
• Enjoy more activities
• Healthier hair and skin
• Save money

With all of these dangers that come from being overweight and the benefits that come from losing weight, it’s easy to see that there is a definite need to be healthy.
Unfortunately, this can be difficult for a number of reasons, several of which we’ll be getting into in the next section, so keep reading to find out more about what it will take for you to lose weight.

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Introduction

Ten million people in America practice mindful meditation. That’s quite a lot. Mindful meditation has become popular as more and more people enjoy living a better, less stressful, more productive life.

Why are these people turning to meditation to improve their daily lives? The easy answer is, meditation works. The more complex answer is that today, we are suffering from information overload and stress more than previous generations. Some meditators want to reduce stress and enjoy greater peace. Others seek more awareness to create a more purposeful life. Still others want to gain greater awareness and align their thoughts with their actions. Mindful meditation is useful for all of these purposes. What is true for everyone, however, is that the more you know about your thinking, the more you are in control of your life.

Whatever the reason, mindful meditation can be a powerful force. Like music, life has many layers, and mindful meditation can help you become aware of all the nuances.
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Mindful meditation isn’t magic. It allows you to concentrate your awareness on the here and now. All too frequently, our attention can scatter into the past or the future. We become distracted and unable to focus on what is important in the present.

Mindful meditation gives us power to focus on the here and now. It increases our mental energy, allowing us to perform better and achieve more. Quite simply, mindful meditation makes us more efficient in many areas of our lives.

More importantly, it puts us in control. The mind is an extremely complex labyrinth, where the subconscious can rule and throw roadblocks in our path. There are times we behave in certain ways without being consciously aware of why. Mindful meditation increases our awareness and opens our minds to more answers. Our senses are heightened as we enjoy the present more fully. Everyday activities, from what we eat, how we enjoy art and listen to music, and how we respond to friends and family become more vivid as mental walls crumble.

Mindful meditation relaxes us. With awareness, stress and unpleasant thoughts become less threatening and easier to handle.

We become more relaxed and are able to let more joy and peace into our lives.

Today, we live in a state of impermanence more than ever before in history. More than a hundred years ago, most people spent their lives in the town in which they were born. They knew all their neighbors. Their station in life determined their job. It may not sound ideal to us, but it certainly wasn’t stressful. These days, we live very fragmented lives. We may move regularly and barely know our neighbors. We switch jobs and friends on a regular basis.

Constant change has become the one permanence on which we can rely. There’s no denying that modern knowledge and conveniences have brought us untold advantages. However, at the same time, we have lost our connection to others and our surroundings. Mindful meditation brings back that important lost connection to what is happening inside of us and around us. It’s not an antidote to the problems of living in the 21st century, but it can provide the skills to help us cope with many of its problems.

You don’t have to be a yogi to reap the benefits of mindful meditation. The more you practice, the better you will become. It’s like exercise for the mind. You know what daily exercise does for your body. It strengthens and firms those muscles.

In much the same way, daily mindful meditation strengthens your mind and hones your thinking process. It’s both simple and complex, and at all times, it’s a choice. Hopefully, this book will help you make the right one for you. Consistency is the key to successful practice. Even a short meditation period every day is more effective than sporadic longer meditations.

Like physical exercise, mindful meditation is a process. Success doesn’t happen overnight. But it will happen. When you begin your meditation journey, you may find it difficult to sit quietly for 15 or 20 minutes at a time. You may start making excuses why it’s okay to skip meditation for just one day.

This will make it harder to resume meditating the following day, and you’ll easily find an excuse why you shouldn’t. You’re too tired, too busy, too frustrated … any excuse will do. That’s why making a commitment to regular meditation is necessary. Ask yourself what motivated you in the first place. Make a pact with yourself that you will get up half an hour earlier in the morning to meditate. With a firm commitment, you will gain momentum and see the results.

Mindful meditation is unrivalled in its ability to open your mind. If you are new at mindful meditation, it is helpful that you ask yourself what has motivated you to start meditating at this time. There is, however, no right or wrong reason.

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3 Effective Ways To Building Unlimited Traffic To Your Website

Introduction

Imagine your shop in an abandoned shopping complex in a deserted town. Cobwebs are growing at every corner and you?ve wasted tons of cash in goods you?ve never been able to sell.

That?s what it?s like when your website has no traffic.

We know that it is important.

That?s why, it is highly crucial that we spend at least 30% of our marketing efforts to draw traffic to our online businesses.

Traffic isn?t something that is formed on easy terms.

Thankfully, these traffic generation tasks can be outsourced.

But first, you must have a thorough understanding of how each method works before you can teach your subordinates to draw traffic for you.

But with so many traffic generation methods available, how do you know which is the right one for you?

The best choice – Learn and apply as many techniques as you can.

You can never have enough traffic, as they say.

But don’t do things halfheartedly.

Whatever task you embark on, make sure you see it till the end.

That is the only way to create true results for your business.

Let me show to you a couple of surefire methods to create massive traffic for your online business. Traffic is King. Period. It takes diligent practice of your chosen traffic generation technique to ensure a steady stream of traffic.

For those on a shoestring budget, free traffic is definitely the way to go.

Even if you have a steady cash flow, the potential of free traffic sources in bringing you extra eyeballs shouldn?t be overlooked.

Free traffic is essentially drawing visitors to your site without having to pay for advertising fees.

There are several ways to draw free traffic to your site, such as:

-Article Submission
-Search Engine Optimization
-Link Exchanges
-Ad Swaps
-Offline Traffic Methods

Article submission basically involves submitting articles related to your niche topic to high traffic article directories so that people searching for information will find your articles, which leads them to your website through an author?s resource box.

Search engine optimization is the art of getting your page to the top of Google or Yahoo?s search engine by targeting high search volume “keyword phrases”.

Link exchanges is the exchanging of links between your site and other people?s websites so that visitors from the other site will visit yours and vice versa.

Ad swaps basically entails mutual promotion of 2 partners websites through email marketing or blog posts. When used correctly, can hugely benefit both parties.

Offline traffic methods deal with promoting one?s website through offline methods such as banners, flyers, direct response marketing and name cards.

Article marketing was one of the most widely used traffic generation methods in the past, and still is widely used today. #1 : Free Traffic

As mentioned earlier, it involves posting or submitting articles to article submission directories to draw traffic to your website.

Here are some commonly used article directories, which you can submit articles to:

-Ezine Articles (www.ezinearticles.com)
-Article City (www.articlecity.com)
-Article Alley (www.articlealley.com)
-GoArticles (www.goarticles.com)

Bear in mind, each of the directories has their own set of submission guidelines. So be sure to read and adhere to the guidelines of article writing if you don?t want your articles to be rejected.

Here?s how it works:

As a general rule of thumb, write an article ranging from 300-500 words (or more) which is unique, filled with keywords related to your topic.

Then, sign up for a free account at any of those article directories. Make sure you create a solid author?s resource box which talks a little about yourself and has backlinks (one or two max) to your website.

Whenever you post an article and it is approved, your article will appear on the website directory along with your author?s resource box.

People searching for relevant articles will read your article, and from there if they wish to find out more information, they will visit your website.

For this matter, it is important that your article titles are highly optimized for keywords so that they can be found and also must be catchy enough to stand out from the crowd.