Mindconnection eNL, 2004-05-10

Please forward this eNL to a friend! 

Free bonus:$125 shopping spree. (Some folks might really like it).

In this issue:

1. Product Highlights
2. Brainpower tip
3. Time tip

4. Finance tip
5. Security tips
6. Health tip/Fitness tip
7. Thought for the day

At times, it eats away at us like a poison. At other times, it explodes from us, taking with it precious chunks of life and love that we can never replace.

How can you avoid getting into a situation where you behave like one snarling cat facing off against another? This course shows you how.

This course follows the same protocol used in short-term professional psychotherapy. The notable exception here is the course is self-treatment. Whereas you could expect 4 or 5 one-hour sessions with a psychotherapist, the self-treatment approach will take more time and more self-initiative. But, you won't be paying $200 per hour for five hours this way, either.

As with any form of psychotherapy, your journey along the healing path may not end with this course. However, note these two facts about this kind of treatment:

• The success rate is very high, for people who make an honest effort to work through the therapy.
• The therapy lays the groundwork for a stronger method of treatment, if needed.

Going this route--the self-treatment via Dr. Prince's course--will save you money for three reasons:

• You pay a one-time fee for the course, rather than $200 an hour for 4 to 6 hours
• If this therapy solves your problem, that's your total cost.
• If short-term therapy can't solve your problem, you have determined that without spending $200/hr.

Estimated completion time: 10 one-hour sessions.

Question: Do merchants run these sales to save you money or to sell product?

To avoid overspending, make a list of items you would like to buy and do not deviate from that list.

When you respond to a 10% (or whatever) sale, you are going to a store where other people are in spending mode. It can be infectious. That 10% sale causes some people to really stock up, even on items that are excluded from the promotion. Others, who may not even know about the sale (because they didn't get that coupon) automatically mimic this behavior (it's a group psychology thing). The net discount that the merchant actually pays out might be closer to 2%.

This little finance tip will save you hundreds of dollars a year, if you are a typical consumer. Now that you have all of that extra money, take a look around at www.mindconnection.com and spend some of it there! For example, see our book reviews and recommendations at www.mindconnection.com/books. Ah, nothing like gratuitous plugs!

Of course, if you have a dummy phone wire system installed in hopes this fool will cut that and then enter your house to send the alarm via the concealed wiring for the real system, great. By the way, you can have an electrician install a relay with normally closed contacts so your alarm system can detect when that dummy wire is cut. This will allow you to know an intrusion is coming, so you have more time to insert your earplugs, check your weapon, and so on. 

So, here's your abs freebie. There are two elements to having great abs, and it's possible to have them even if you are middle-aged. The two elements are fat loss and muscle gain.

Now, in all fairness, I want to write a disclaimer here. It was Mother's Day yesterday, and I hope all mothers understand that for you to get the abs you had before you gave birth is demanding a bit much. So, don't feel guilty about not meeting unrealistic expectations. Some women luck out and can have awesome abs after kids, but most will have to realize that becoming a mother was a mixed blessing and a fairly flat tummy is more than good enough.

For you men who have not given birth to children (and I assume that's all of us), there is no excuse for looking as though you did give birth. If you are still married, do this for your wife as well as yourself.

• To reduce fat, reduce your caloric consumption. It's that simple (well, most of the time). Yes, there are many other things you can do--but this is the one step folks typically overlook. Do not go on the Atkins diet or some other stupid, unhealthy, insane, should be illegal, whacko plan (don't ask me how I really feel, unless you want to hear about my jail plan for the purveyors of this nonsense). Simply eat less at mealtime. I don't mean fewer carbs. I mean smaller portions. That won't get you there fast, but it will get you there. For more specifics and faster progress, see the free articles at www.supplecity.com.
  
• To build abs, do the right exercises. Sit-ups are a joke. These build your hip flexors, not your abs. If you can do dozens of repetitions of an exercise, that exercise is not building muscle. The reason has to do with basic bodybuilding science. Exercises that do build abs are squats, deadlifts, and hanging leg raises. If you don't know how to do these, contact a gym and find someone with certifications (not just the title "personal trainer") to show you. Your abdominals are muscle tissue, just like your arms. They need proper overloading and proper rest to develop.