Issue #2674
- WEALTHY: Would you eat the marshmallow? (Matt Furey)
- HEALTHY: 5 keys to living a long, healthy, happy life (Craig Ballantyne)
- WISE: Buddha on endurance
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
- Is Michael Masterson’s core philosophy all it’s cracked up to be? (Suzanne Richardson)
- 4 simple strategies for becoming a happier person (Marci Shimoff)
- It’s Fun to Know… about the Internet
- Add “swive” to your vocabulary
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Your Two Financial Choices
By Matt Furey
Let’s play a game. Just for a moment I’d like you to pretend that I’m going to give you some money.
You have two choices in this game:
The first choice, I give you one million dollars right now.
The second choice, I give you one dollar, and I double it every day for 30 days.
If you’re like most people in this country – and the world – you’d take option number one.
And what a foolish mistake that would be.
Why? Because if I give you one dollar today and double it every day for 30 days, at the end of 30 days, you will have been given over $500 million.
In fact, the total after 30 days would be $536,870,912.
And if you could hang on for one more day, you’d have over a billion bucks – $1,073,741,824.
Most people, without thinking, would ask for the million up front. They want INSTANT GRATIFICATION. Yet, as Chinese philosopher and martial artist Deng Ming Dao once inscribed to me in a book, “In discipline lies freedom.”
I was recently reminded of this when I read Joachim de Posada’s sensational book Don’t Eat the Marshmallow… Yet.
Don’t Eat the Marshmallow… Yet has already sold over two million copies – and there’s no end in sight, because it teaches the “sweet” secret of success that few have the guts to share.
The book begins with a Stanford University study.
A group of children were put in a room, and each one was given a marshmallow. A researcher told the children that they could eat the marshmallow right away – but if they waited 15 minutes before eating it, they’d get another one as a reward.
Then the researcher left the room.
Most of the kids ate the marshmallow immediately. But when researchers tracked the group over many years, they found that those who held out turned out to be much more successful as adults.
It wasn’t because they were smarter, cuter, had better genes, or were more skilled. It was because they had the ability to delay gratification.
What about you?
Do you “eat the marshmallow”? Or do you do that which will bring greater prosperity your way?
Each month, when you receive payment for work performed, do you pay yourself first and force yourself to save at least 10 percent of it? Or do you do the easy thing and pay everyone else first, so there’s never anything left to invest in your future?
In the evening, do you eat the marshmallow by watching hour after hour of television or gossiping with friends? Or do you save the marshmallow by reading, writing, exercising, or working on a plan to get ahead and stay ahead?
Do you invest in information products that will help you learn how to improve your economic situation? Or do you eat the marshmallow by blowing your money on fancy food and entertainment?
Two choices.
Which will it be?
[Ed. Note: Matt Furey is a national collegiate wrestling champion (1985) and a world shuai-chiao kung fu champion (1997). He publishes the Zero Resistance Living program that teaches average Joes how to change themselves into the person they've always wanted to be. Discover how to relax, imagine, and put enthusiasm into all you do at the highest level possible. Order NOW and make a quantum leap forward.
Need help making tough financial decisions? This June, 9 moneymaking experts will be revealing their top investment strategies. Find out how you can learn their secrets to making a fortune in today's market right here.]
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ETR Insider Report: The Upsetting Side Effects of “Ready, Fire, Aim”
If you subscribe to Michael Masterson’s “Ready, Fire, Aim” philosophy, you’re no doubt going to notice an unappealing side effect.
Sometimes, you’re going to screw up.
But don’t be too hard on yourself. Making mistakes – even downright failing – is a part of the learning process that you should welcome with open arms. Michael Masterson calls this the secret of accelerated failure. “If you tense up and focus on avoiding mistakes, you will learn very slowly,” he says. “If you relax, let the mistakes happen, and learn from them, you will advance quickly.”
Take ETR for example. We recently made changes to the look of our e-newsletter. Our goal: to make ETR easier for you and the rest of our 480,000 subscribers to receive and read.
The ETR team figured out what we thought we needed to do to make the newsletter more readable, more spam-proof, and less high-tech. We tested our ideas using many of the most popular Internet service providers and mail-reading programs… made a few changes… and tested again.
But instead of testing forever, we decided that the test period was over. We knew we were “Ready,” so we “Fired” by sending out an e-mail in the new format. When Murphy’s Law struck and we discovered that some e-mail providers made ETR less readable in the new format – the exact opposite of our intention – we immediately fixed it. And we’ve been continuing to fine-tune (”Aim”) the new format ever since.
If you want to make an improvement to your business, you need to make it happen fast. Every second you wait, you’re wasting precious dollars or losing potential customers. That’s why it’s so important to “Fire” quickly.
Yes, you need to do the appropriate research and testing to make sure you’re “Ready.” But then you need to stop angling for perfection and throw your project out into the real world. And THEN you can take the time to “Aim.”
[Ed. Note: How do you like ETR's new format? Let us know at AskETR@ETRFeedback.com.]
Being Happy From the Inside Out
By Marci Shimoff
Is the state of the economy getting you down? Now, more than ever, we need to learn to be happy from the inside out – what I call Happy for No Reason. Here are four tips to get you started:
• Know you’re all right in this moment.
Stop and take a breath. Look around and ground yourself in what’s actually happening right… this… second. Motivational author and speaker Eckhart Tolle calls this the power of Now. It anchors you to a place of inner calm.
• Don’t believe everything you think.
When you start to spin out and “awful-ize” your situation, interrupt the downward spiral of worry and anxiety by questioning your negative thoughts. Just because you think something doesn’t make it true.
• See that what truly matters isn’t in the bank.
This is an opportunity for all of us – as a nation and as individuals – to re-evaluate our priorities and values and go beyond materialism. What do you need to be happy? When you dig deep, you’ll find that meaning in your life, not money, is at the top of the list.
• Switch from me to we.
You want to feel wealthy? Give of yourself! It doesn’t have to be money that you contribute. Simply look around and see if there’s a need you can fill for someone else. Switching from “me” to “we” is a guaranteed happiness booster.
Join the ranks of the resilient and become Happy for No Reason. When you build a refuge of unshakeable peace and well-being inside, you begin to turn things around – not just for yourself, but for every life you touch.
[Ed. Note: Marci Shimoff is a featured teacher in The Secret, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul, and author of the New York Times bestseller Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy From the Inside Out, which offers a revolutionary approach to experiencing deep and lasting happiness. To order Happy for No Reason, newly released in paperback, and receive remarkable free bonus gifts, click here. .]
Craig Ballantyne vs. the Skinny Bitches
Admission: I’ve never read the book Skinny Bitch. And I likely never will. Nor will I read the authors’ follow-up book, Skinny Bastard. (I’ll be surprised if that one does well, since “skinny” is an insult to most men – at least the ones I know.)
Both books are based on the idea that, if you want to lose weight and keep it off, you have to avoid all meat, dairy, eggs, fish, etc. – which the authors refer to as “junk” foods – and turn yourself into a vegetarian.
Well, there’s a lot of junk in both the vegetarian and the meat-eating world. So here’s what I think you should do…
Eat lots of fruits, vegetables, and raw nuts. That should be part of any good diet. But then it’s up to you. You can choose to eat meat or go with strictly vegetarian protein sources.
I do my best to stick to organic, grass-fed meat, but I probably eat “generic grocery store meat” twice a week. And I really don’t think that will hurt me.
Don’t shy away from consuming meat, dairy, and eggs (in moderation). And to round out your healthful diet, here are 5 keys to living a long, healthy, happy life:
1. Get regular annual checkups after the age of 35.
2. Stay physically active every day for at least 30 minutes.
3. Do a total-body resistance-training workout at least twice a week.
4. Do 5 minutes of deep breathing daily to relieve stress.
5. Associate with wonderful people who give you positive social support.
So take a deep breath, relax, and don’t let those skinny bitches get under your skin and shorten your life.
[Ed. Note: Eating the right foods is only one aspect of losing fat and staying healthy. You also need to exercise regularly. Fitness expert Craig Ballantyne can help you burn fat and build muscle with three 45-minute workouts a week. Learn how right here.
For more easy-to-implement ideas about how to live longer and feel better, sign up for ETR's free natural health newsletter.]
It’s Fun to Know: About the Internet
A huge amount of information – 78 exabytes (that’s 78 with 18 zeros after it) – was sent over the Internet last year, according to University of Minnesota researchers.
An exabyte is a unit of computer memory or data storage capacity. One exabyte is equal to a billion gigabytes.
(Source: Discover Magazine)
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Word to the Wise: Swive
To “swive” (SWIVE) – from the Old English for “move” – is to have sexual intercourse with a woman.
Example (as used by Tom McCarthy in a New York Times review of How to Sell by Clancy Martin): “The dialogue, between [jewelry] dealers and the regulars they cheat even more avidly than they do first-timers… or between siblings who swive each other’s girlfriends in the full knowledge that the other knows but not sure whether they know they know they know, is zippy.”
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Thank you Matt. I needed to read this article today. Indeed, two choices, and two choices only. This is the kind of decision-making knowledge that should be taught in every school. Thank you.
There is so much hype in the PT world, this is the best and most honest advice I’ve read in a long time. Long-term fitness and health don’t really have to be complicated. Well done.
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