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Chapter 1: Why Vitamins and Minerals Are the Answer

So many of us wish we had more energy, better abs, and sharper focus. Likewise, we often find ourselves wishing that we had better skin or hair. We wish that we could sleep better at night, and wish that it was a little bit easier to wake up (those last two points are related, by the way!).

This has led to the emergence of numerous industries, all built around helping us to feel, look, and perform better. We spend huge amounts of cash on skincare products, on sleep supplements, and on gym memberships. We try all kinds of crazy things, whether that’s lying on a bed of gentle spikes to improve sleep (yes, that’s a real thing!), wearing blue-blocking shades all day, or wearing energy-healing crystals (which are about as effective as wishing really hard!).

We try these things because we’re looking for answers, and we’re desperate. We’re willing to try anything. And we hope, each time, that we’re about to stumble upon the answer and unlock our full potential.

We hope that ONE of these things will provide the answer and help us feel GREAT as we know that we really can do.

But very few of these strategies makes any noticeable difference.

The problem? We’re overcomplicating matters. And this is largely due to the huge amount of marketing that gets thrown at us on a daily basis.

In truth, improving the way you look and feel is very simple: it’s about the basics!

Consider what is very likely to be your current lifestyle and your current diet. Raise your hand if any of these points apply to you:

• You don’t manage your five fruits and vegetables a day
• You eat a lot of processed foods and ready meals
• You go to the gym 3 times a week or less – and aren’t particularly mobile the rest of the time
• You don’t get enough sleep
• You are in a state of chronic stress due to work, family, and financial pressures
• You spend a lot of your free time on the couch, watching cartoons
• You spend more than eight hours a day looking at a computer screen, with a hunched back, staring at a bright screen
• You spend barely any time outdoors
• You drink contaminated tap water
• You breathe harmful smog-filled air

This is a rather bleak picture, but it’s true for MANY of us. We don’t eat enough greens, we don’t sleep, we gorge on sugary foods, and we’re stressed all the time.

Then we wonder why we don’t feel 100%!

Even if you got most of these things right, the truth is that our modern lifestyles are just absolutely terrible for our health. This is true right down to the fact that most of us are too comfortable – we have become “adapted” to a comfortable, domesticated lifestyle, and therefore our bodies have forgotten how to deal with stress or difficulty.

Take going outdoors for instance. Most of us just don’t do this enough, which means that we aren’t getting the important stimulus of sunlight, which helps to encourage the body to produce vitamin D, which in turn regulates things like hormone production, sleep, mood… even appetite! Without that important input (called an “external zeitgebers” in the scientific literature) our body loses some of its natural rhythm and certain processes are interrupted.

But then there’s the huge benefit of being in the cold. Even when the sun isn’t out, being outdoors helps to boost testosterone levels, strengthen our immune system, and even improve our ability to regulate our own body temperature. Is it any wonder we always feel “stuffy” when we never train this part of our health?

Even spending time barefooted on the earth (which trains tiny muscles in the foot), even diving into water and holding our breath (which trains our lungs and improves our CO2 balance)… these are all things our bodies crave. And we aren’t giving them that.

And our bodies are deteriorating massively as a result. Compare a wolf in the wild to an overweight, spoiled domestic dog. Which is healthier?

YOU are that domestic dog. Plus an extremely stressful lifestyle and lack of sleep…

Starting with vegetables and fruits is the solution.

Why?

Well, it’s all very good and well me telling you that you should be working out throughout the day, and that you should be eating perfectly, and that you should be taking long swims in freezing cold water in the morning.

Problem is, we don’t have time for that and our bodies are now so maladapted that they wouldn’t handle it.

Even fixing your diet – getting rid of all that unwanted processed food, reducing the number of total calories, getting more fiber, reducing simple carbs… it’s a lo of work and can get quite complicated.

Which is why the best place to start is by fixing one of the biggest issues with modern life. That is: the lack of micronutrients.

Micronutrients are vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids, antioxidants, and other active ingredients in our food that our body uses for a wide variety of different purposes.

What many people don’t realize is that we literally are what we eat. You hear this a lot, but many people assume that it is a kind of metaphor. But no: your body takes in the nutrients that you consume and then it uses those nutrients to actually rebuild your body.

For example, your bones are made partly from calcium, and magnesium. These also help to strengthen your connective tissue (tendons and ligaments), your teeth, and your nails. Connective tissues similarly benefit from the likes of collagen (found in bone broth) which also helps to improve your skin.

If only you could get more fruit and vegetables in your diet then, you would become the healthiest and most effective version of yourself. And that in turn might then give you the energy and willpower to do the rest.

Fruits and vegetables can even supercharge your metabolism, helping you to burn through much more fat!

As we will see in the rest of this book, fixing your intake of fruits and vegetables doesn’t need to be difficult. If you are strategic, then making just a few simple changes can transform your health and wellbeing.

This book will also outline many of the other amazing and complex ways in which fruits can improve your health and performance – some of which are absolutely transformative to the way you look and feel.

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Vlogging is becoming increasingly more popular and there has never been a better time to start a vlog.People really enjoy watching high quality vlogs and some vloggers have subscribers in the millions. But you don’t need millions of subscribers to make money from vlogging. There are many vloggers that have a lot less subscribers that make a full time income and more from their vlogging activities. What could be better? Doing something that you love and recording it to share with the world and making money at the same time. This is more than a dream – it can be your reality if you follow the advice provided in this guide.

In this guide you will discover what a vlog really is, some great and profitable ideas for starting a vlog, how to start your new vlog with maximum impact and how to promote your vlog so that you increase your subscriber numbers and your potential to make money.

We have answered all of the most common questions about vlogging in this guide and provided you with a step by step plan to create a successful and profitable vlog. You need to take action and be totally committed to your new vlog. It is going to take time and effort to get where you want to be.

We have left no stone unturned in this guide. You will know exactly what is expected of you and the highs and lows of vlogging. Consistency is everything with vlogging as you will discover as you read through this guide.

Once you have read the guide you will have everything that you need to start your journey to successful vlogging. So we recommend that you read this guide in full first and then go back to the start and follow the recommended action steps.

We wish you every success with your new vlog!

A video blog (vlog) or “vlogging” is the setting up of a specific channel on a video sharing site such as YouTube and uploading videos on a regular basis. The goal of your vlog is to provide engaging content in a specific niche that will create a reaction from viewers and grow your following or subscriber base. Vlogging took off around ten years ago when video sharing sites such as YouTube became really popular. Videos are a lot more interesting than text based content. Most people would sooner watch a short video than read hundreds of words of text.

Can vlogging really make you money? Yes it certainly can, but you need to go about it in the right way which is what this guide is all about. We will show you how to choose a niche to vlog about, the best video platform to use, how to set up your channel correctly and a lot more.

Why should you start a Vlog?

There are many good reasons why you should start a vlog right now. The first of these is that video has tremendous impact these days. YouTube and Facebook currently dominate the world of Internet video. There is a reason that both of these platforms introduced live streaming video – it is what people want! People like to watch videos and in particular they like vlogs. Some of the most successful channels on YouTube are vlogs. Once you start to get a following for your vlog the word will spread quickly and you will get a lot more subscribers.

Vlogging is one of the best ways for you to share your talents, ideas and thoughts about a subject. When you create a vlog your audience is not expecting Hollywood movie quality – in fact quite the opposite. A vlog needs to be natural and casual and really connect with the viewer.

There are all kinds of successful vlogs out there. A lot of travel vlogs allow the vloggers to travel around the world through donations, sponsorship, affiliate marketing and other revenue opportunities. Take a look at the popularity of reality TV – people like to watch other ordinary people doing things that they love.

If you have a specific talent then you can show the world how you put this to good use. Once you start to build a following then there will be opportunities for you to market your skills. By demonstrating that you are really good at something in your vlog you are bound to get requests from people interested in hiring you.

Some people start a vlog because they want to document their life and create a memory to share with future generations. They have no financial aspirations for doing this. This is a guide about making money from vlogging so we wouldn’t recommend this approach. However a number of vloggers who started off in this way have made passive income.

There are already some very successful vloggers on YouTube that make a significant income from their vlog. People like Roman Attwood, Lilly Singh, Casey Neistat, Zoella and Alfie Deyes are all good examples.

These people all have deals with brands where they make a significant income. Brands constantly scour YouTube for new vloggers and if they find good ones they will approach them directly with deals or sponsorship. There are so many opportunities to make money with vlogging.

You can start vlogging right now. There is no need for you to purchase expensive camera equipment to start with. If you have a smartphone which can record high quality video then you are good to go. However if you can invest in good recording equipment we would always recommend this.

When you have finished shooting your footage you can then upload this to your computer and use free video editing programs such as Windows Movie Maker for Windows machines or iMovie for Mac. Yes there are better video editors out there, but you don’t need them to get started.

You don’t even need a website. Use YouTube as your vlogging platform. It is a good idea to have social accounts such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and build a following on these so that you can let everyone know when you have launched a new video.

A number of vloggers use affiliate marketing to generate revenue. For example there are a number of successful make up and cosmetics vlogs and the owners promote products and make commissions as an affiliate.

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Introduction

Amazon FBA is a service provided by Amazon to sellers that can help them to build highly successful reseller businesses far more quickly and effectively than would otherwise be possible. Here, a company is letting Amazon take care of the heavy lifting when it comes to storage and logistics, meaning that all the brand has to do is choose the right products and market!

Of course, it’s a little more complex than all that!

But at the end of the day, what this service means is that a small entrepreneur or business is able to start selling products through the largest online store in the world, without having to invest huge amounts of money in infrastructure, stock, and staff. Now anyone can make a killing selling the next hit product, and in this ebook, you’re going to learn exactly how to get started.

Chapter 1 - An Introduction to Amazon FBA

Let’s start from the beginning: what exactly is Amazon FBA?

Essentially, FBA here stands for “Fulfilment By Amazon.” This does exactly what it says on the tin: it means that Amazon will handle your fulfilment.

With FBA, you’ll be able to outsource all of the most complicated, costly, and error-prone aspects of your business, and instead just focus on choosing products and selling them.

That’s because Amazon will handle both storage and delivery, meaning that you just need to get the products shipped directly from the supplier/wholesaler to Amazon’s warehouses (called “fulfilment centers” which sounds like some kind of self-help cult hideout).

Your product will then be listed on Amazon, and will then be fulfilled via Amazon. That means in other words, that Amazon will list your product on its storefront, and every time someone puts in an order, it will send it out to the buyer. This way, you can potentially fulfil hundreds of thousands of orders without needing to see a single product!

Of course you will pay fees, and there are particular regulations you need to abide by. But for the small business owner or entrepreneur, this is a FAR preferable scenario than having to have large amounts of inventory delivered to their home. And it opens up nearly endless opportunities. Your buyers can even benefit from Prime delivery and get their products the very next day.

Amazon Prime alone has over 95 million members in the US alone, and that’s only 59% of the user base in that country! The site owns 49% of the eCommerce market in the US too.

By having your products listed on Amazon, they become significantly more likely to succeed – especially as customers have become so used to buying on the platform with a single click.

And with Amazon handling the delivery, you’ll have just a few fees to worry about and no logistics, tracking, or other stuff that can go wrong! Your customers will be getting a service that is comparable to the very biggest and best-known brands in the world.

As long as you choose the right products, invest wisely, and know how to write a great store listing… then you can’t fail.
And you’ll learn all of that over the next chapters of this book.

Chapter 2 – Getting Started – Setting Up an Amazon Seller Account and Selling Your First Product

But before we go further, first you will need to understand how to start your business on Amazon.

You are going to need to sign up for an account so you can go ahead and start sourcing products. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to set up your Amazon FBA account and you’ll see your options.

You should create your account before you invest in any stock!

Creating Your Account
The first step is to go to:
https://services.amazon.com
On the page, click Start Selling:
You’ll then need to register your business details as shown below:

Follow the rest of the steps to complete your Seller account registration.

Creating Listings

In order to get started, you will need to start creating your listings. This is relatively easy fortunately! Just sign into the homepage and then find the inventory tab. Click “Add a Product” and then “Create a New Product Listing.” You can then select the most relevant category for your product.

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Introduction

Do you view yourself as someone who has a positive outlook on life? Do you hope that good things are coming your way soon? Well, one thing that is important to note is that positive thinking is a mental and emotional attitude. It pays a closer focus and interest on the bright side of life with the hope of having a positive outcome. Having positive thinking does not mean that you should bury your head in the sand. It does not mean that you should ignore life's painful and unpleasant situations. It simply means having the ability to approach life more positively and productively even in the face of unpleasantness. Even when things are not going your way, you keep your head up and look for hidden lessons and opportunities in bad situations!

It is important for you to notice that you have the power to change your mindset. It all starts with self-talk. In other words, you must begin by stimulating endless streams of positive thoughts running through your head. The truth is, these thoughts can take two forms; the negative and the positive mainly because most of what you think are derived from logic and reason. However, other self-talks may arise from having misconceptions and assumptions that result from a lack of information.

If you mostly have negative thoughts running through your mind, most likely you are a pessimist. On the other hand, if most of the thoughts you have about life are mostly positive, there is a good chance that you are an optimist. In other words, you are someone that exercises positive thinking.

When you focus on the positive, you will mentally anticipate good health, success, and happiness. You believe that even when faced with the most challenging and difficult situations, you will eventually overcome them. In other words, having positive thinking is not a concept that everyone believes in. Some people will see it as nonsense and scoff at those that believe in the power of positive thinking. The good news is that there are so many people who are slowly seeing the important role that positive thinking has on their lives and believe that it is effective.

One thing that you must bear in mind is that if you want to use the power of positive thinking in your life, you must be more than just aware of the fact that it exists. You must be ready to adopt it in all your daily activities! There is so much research that reveals that positive thinking is not just about happiness and having an upbeat attitude. It is through positive thinking that you can create real value in your life by establishing long-lasting skills that last longer than a mere smile.

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How Positive Thinking Works

When you think about the things that your heart desires and the ways you can get them, there is a stream of joy that comes from deep within you that makes you take great control of your life. It is like when you think of something or someone that makes you happy, your brain releases endorphins, that gives you that feeling of joy and happiness. It is these things that help us develop a positive attitude.

According to so many psychological studies, happy people have been shown to have a special quality that allows them to live a better-quality life compared to those who are not. What do you think is the reason for this? Well, the answer is simple. Optimism.

The good news about optimism is that you can learn it. In other words, you can train yourself to have positive thinking by simply adopting a mindset full of optimism. According to the law of cause and effect, if you emulate what successful and happy people do, you will start feeling the same and get the outcome they have, hence end up enjoying same experiences as they do.

How Do Happy People Find Good In The World?

One thing that you must realize is that optimistic people tend to handle things differently from average people and those who are pessimistic. The first thing is that they focus their minds on the things they want and then work hard to find ways to get those things. In other words, you need to ensure that your goals are clear and have the confidence that no matter how long it will take, you will work hard to accomplish them.

Secondly, optimistic people see the good in every situation, however difficult it may seem. It is important to bear in mind that things will go wrong at some point in your life and trust me, that is a good thing! In every difficult situation, there is a dark side and a bright side, and you are the one that will determine what direction you would like to follow. The most important thing is for you to see the positive.

Instead of always looking for an excuse not to like something, choose to see the good in everything. Even in that job that you may seem not to like so much, there is something good in it, and if you look carefully, you will find it. The thing is, while you look, you will become more positive and happier.

Positive thinking only works when you train your mind to be positive and to have an attitude that you can achieve whatever you want in life. The truth is, the mind has been created to have adequate bandwidth to pay attention to one thing at a time. Your job is to keep your mind focused on thoughts that lift you long enough to create neural pathways that help in establishing a new habit.

When you start facing a negative situation or event along the way, just remember that what matters most is how you respond to the situation. In other words, it is your response that will influence the outcome. It means that you must find a positive response even when things are not looking up. You can come up with positive affirmations or phrases you can repeat in your mind over and over so that you can overcome negative thoughts. It is this kind of words that will encourage you to have a positive attitude.

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It seems that everywhere we look these days, someone is trying to convince us that their way to get healthy is the best way. Between fad diet trends, supplements, and products that claim to work miracles, the world can seem like an amazing place full of wonderous technology that can help us to shed weight fast. And choosing between options is often overwhelming and difficult. Especially once you begin to unearth the gritty truth about many of these options. Scams abound, chemicals and hormones can be altered in the body and cause terrible effects, and products that claim to work miracles can be harmful in the long run.

So who is there to trust when we want to begin a healthy lifestyle?

The answer is simple. Nature.

In nature, there is a natural balance that can be very delicate. If we veer away from natural practices and substitute things like healthy eating and exercise with pills and starvation, the obvious results will be detrimental to us. We were designed to enjoy a bountiful diet that is rich in specific things; healthy fats, vitamins, and minerals.

That is where the paleo diet comes into play. Introduced during the 1970s by a man named Walter Voegtlin, the idea of eating only the foods that were consumed by our ancestors from the Paleolithic era has become immensely popular. When we stop ingesting foods that were introduced during the time hunting and gathering slowed down into farming, the idea is that we limit many starchy products and fatty meats and stick to the foods that are nutrient rich and ideal to keep the body and gastrointestinal tract as happy as possible. He thought it would be a good way to influence modern people to eat in a healthier fashion.

Voegtlin was a pioneer in his field, and his research inspired others to reach conclusions about the diet for themselves. Another doctor believed that our bodies were evolved for this type of diet. That is, to be eating the kinds of foods that our hunter gatherer ancestors were able to gain access to in their travels. We are naturally adept at digesting lean meats, fruits, vegetables, and nuts and seeds. In fact, they are incredibly good for us! The types of foods that became commonly and commercially available to us through farming, foods like grains, corn (which is technically a grain), and dairy products consumed in an abundance can cause the body many issues. Lactose-intolerance, gluten intolerance, and other allergies abound from commercialized and common staples foods of this nature. Not to mention, several of them are very starchy, which can make it difficult to lose weight.

The Paleo diet is great for those who are hoping to shed a few pounds, but more than that it is a major lifestyle choice. It isn’t just about losing weight, but about feeling great and making choices that are healthy for you and that make you feel good. It can be very stressful to know that the foods we are eating, by choice, are doing harm to our bodies. Even if we aren’t consciously aware of that specific harm, we innately understand what is good for us and what is bad for us most of the time, and there will always be a weight on our shoulders when we are consuming foods that we know for sure are bad for us.

While losing weight isn’t the primary goal of the Paleo diet, it is an incredible benefit. If you are used to the Standard American Diet, also known as the SAD diet around the world because of the pitiful lack of nutrients in the typical meals served when consuming processed, pre-packaged meals, then chances are high that you are suffering physically from it in some way, or will in the future. Processed foods are terribly unhealthy, as will be covered in a later chapter. So cutting these bad foods out and making the choice to go Paleo is a huge game changer. Your body and your mind will feel better than they have in years! All because of a simple switch.

Going Paleo isn’t a fad diet trend where you are going to have to go out and get a journal to count every calorie you consume so you know whether or not you are doing it right (Although to be truthful there is some benefit to some journaling, if you want to hold yourself accountable to the choices you are making. More on this in a later chapter.) Sure, if you are overeating and not getting enough exercise to burn the calories you consume, then calorie counting can be of great assistance. However, many people can take that practice to extremes and not consider the nutrients they may be missing out on when they are following fad diets. Going paleo is completely different. You don’t have to get out a big complicated map to chart the way. You just have to take a step back and look at our ancestors and think, well, they were able to achieve good physical health a natural way. So can we!

If going Paleo sounds like the right choice for you, then look no further. This guide will help you to get started on this rewarding journey to eating foods that were meant to be eaten, the way they were meant to be eaten. No more of that SAD nonsense! So let’s get started!

You may be wondering why go Paleo? What’s the difference between that and, say, keto? Or vegan? Or Atkins?

The answer is beautiful in its simplicity. The Paleo diet is unique in that it is not a diet so much as a mentality. It is a new way to look at life and a wonderful filter through which to make your food choices. Rather than saying, “I can only eat this many carbs today because of my diet,” you can say, “I can eat a full meal and it is going to be delicious!”

This is because unlike the ketogenic diet, where you are forced to cut carbs to a dangerous degree to the point where your body is practically in starvation mode so you lose weight quickly, you are simply funneling your food choices so that they are all of a healthy variety. You don’t want to eat junk food, things loaded with excess salt and preservatives and who knows what kinds of hidden sugars. You want to eat the foods that are naturally loaded with the nutrients our bodies need in order to thrive. You want nature’s diet!

That’s why the Paleo diet came into being. The man who founded it wanted to influence everyone to eat the way our Paleolithic ancestors ate, because it wasn’t full of carcinogens and unknown risks. It was a clean, pure way to get your food so you were able to function through the harsh elements and survive. Some may argue that if the Paleo diet was so great, why didn’t the Paleolithic era people live longer? The answer to that is simple. They lived in very dangerous conditions. They didn’t have advanced medicine the way we do today. They were able to fight through diseases naturally that might have wiped us out because their immune systems had to be tough to weather the elements. If they had managed to gain access to the kinds of technology we have developed today, there’s no telling what kind of world we would be living in now!

In any event, the Paleo diet is a natural way to keep the body balanced, keep the mind clear and alert, and provide us with the flexibility and nimbleness that we might have needed thousands of years ago in survival situations.

We are lucky today that this kind of diet isn’t as necessary as it was then. Can you imagine watching someone who was raised on a diet of fast food and processed, pre-packaged meals try to outrun a wild animal? Or better yet, fight and kill it with just their ingenuity and crude tools? Or even someone who was on a keto diet, putting their body through a lot just to shed a few pounds quickly. They might end up passing out without the proper amount of carbs in their system. Do you think people who are mistreating their bodies for convenience would win in a life or death situation? No way!

The principal behind going Paleo is simple. You want to operate at your maximum potential. The body runs on fuels, and that’s simply the way it is. What we feed ourselves equates to the quality of the gasoline that we put in our cars. If we are eating fruits, vegetables, and meats regularly, that’s a pretty standard type of gasoline. But if we are filling up on junk food and preservatives, high fructose corn syrup and pre-packaged processed foods and fast food, we might as well be putting diesel in an engine that is supposed to run on unleaded. We need to try harder to treat our engines better before they break down! Going Paleo is a great way to get rid of the negative foods that are impacting the body, even if it is in invisible ways. When we are eating foods that are unhealthy, it affects us in ways we sometimes don’t realize until it is too late to change it. For example, eating foods high in salt and fat can start affecting your arteries. You don’t feel it happening, and it can be a huge surprise until your doctor tells you that you need to work on your cholesterol. Worst case scenario, you have a heart attack before you even notice that anything has gone wrong. Heart disease is one of the leading killers in the United States of America, and it isn’t difficult to see why.