We live in a toxic world, and in addition to that we often do not nourish ourselves in an optimal way. We consume processed, denatured foods, grab and go breakfast bars, and well, lots of plain old junk food. To add insult to injury, for many people, most of what they eat is cooked, even the juice they drink, which completely robs it of its vitality and true ability to sustain the body.

Cooking adds new and novel substances into our systems that the body must labor to eliminate. Cooking meat for example creates mutagenic heterocyclic amines, known carcinogens. Wood smoke imparts your food with the delightful spice of… formaldehyde! I could go on, but I would most certainly run off the page.

What can you do to Reverse the Damage?

Some things you have little control over, such as the air quality of the environment in which you live. So what can you do to release some of the toxins from your body? You can moderate what you put into your mouth! This is something you do have an enormous amount of control over. Choose organic produce wherever possible, and strive to eat most or all of your food raw (we are talking about items from the plant kingdom here – I won’t comment on sushi).

In addition to your everyday diet, you can commit to a regular green juice detox program. You could do this once per month, or for more benefits, or follow my plan of a weekly detox by alternating this type of detox with the other ones that I recommend. Pick a day (or two) and consume nothing but green juice and water.

Benefits of a Green Juice Detox:

Number one, juice is easily assimilated, and when your system isn’t burdened with the energy consuming business of digestion, it’s free to direct that energy toward other tasks, namely eliminating waste, and tissue repair.

Number two, greens are replete with vitamins and minerals and will provide you with a big dose of much needed nutrition.

Number three, green vegetables are loaded with chlorophyll, a widely recognized purifying agent.

Number four, even juice contains enough fiber to assist in the removal of waste material from the digestive tract.

How to go About a Green Juice Detox:

You can use a combination of just about any leafy green, although plants from the mustard family are not really advisable due to their sometimes extreme pungency. Try celery, romaine, spinach, or kale. You can add some cucumber and a bit of sweet vegetable like carrot or beets to improve the flavour. Don’t go overboard with this – we are aiming for green juice.

You will want to consume it quickly as it will oxidize rapidly given that the plant cells will have been pulverized so ruthlessly. Lemon is a nice addition as well and can inhibit the oxidation to a certain degree.

Aim for two litres (64 oz) a day. Split this up over the course of the day. You may need to work up gradually to this. Listen to your body and use sound judgement. If you are not accustomed to eating much raw vegetable matter, too much juice could have unpleasant, shall we say, purging effects.

Drink at least a litre (32 oz) of water or more per day as well. This will assist in the flushing out of released toxins.

Regain Your Natural Energy!

You will be surprised by the energy that you can recoup once your digestive tract has been cleared of debris. This alone can have an amazing effect on how your body feels.

When your system is not clearing on a regular basis, this will eventually lead to a condition called autointoxication, wherein toxins are leached into the blood stream from putrefying food that has been sitting in the colon. This can create all sorts of nasty symptoms, and pardon my expression but, really make you feel like crap.

A regular green juice detox program is a simple method for fighting back against environmental pollution and poor dietary choices.

Rediscover your natural energy and vitality!

Frederic Patenaude

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I’m at a seminar this week in Panama, and I’ve been meeting great people so far. In fact, last night I had one of the most interesting conversations of my life with a 747 pilot from Canada and his wife. We talked about liberty, about the failure of socialism, about entrepreneurship, and I would say mainly about the “anti-sheep mentality.”

I don’t know if you realize this, but most people are like sheep.

They actually like to be told what to do, in every circumstance of their lives — and if possible by the government or by the popular culture.

Don’t believe me? Then try to notice every time people say “What are THEY are going to do about it?”

Any time something happens, nobody wants to take the blame, and nobody wants to think for themselves. They want to be told what to do.

The sheep, have no morality, so they want to be told what’s “right” and “wrong.”

The sheep have no understanding that their body is self-healing so they are putting it through every form of abuse, with the hope that if they ever get sick “doctors” are going to heal them.

The sheep live beyond their means, engage in conspicuous consumption to catch up with the Jones’, and count on the government or their pension funds to take care of themselves when they get older!

In every case, they give their power of choice away to a doctor… a government or their neighbors.

Want to know why we’ve seen so many dictators in history? Just watch people. They’re the ones who put them in place, in many cases.

Want to know why charismatic leaders always gain the popular favor? Because the sheep have so self-esteem.

Want to know why politicians can get away with making promises they will never keep? Because the sheep have no memory.

Do you like being a sheep?

Actually, if you’re reading this, chances are that you consider yourself to be a bit of a “black” sheep. A wacko… a freak!

If so, welcome to the club! Us freaks who dare to think are the only ones who can change the world.

So what’s the sheep mentality when it comes to work?

You’ve heard it before: get a good job, work from 9 to 5, hopefully get a pension plan and then work as hard as possible, give up the best years of your life in the hope you’ll be able to retire as early as possible and enjoy life sipping coconut drinks on a beach. Play the lottery in the meantime.

The sheep generally have a dis-taste for entrepreneurship (“it’s not going to work”), for rich people (“they steal from the poor”) and they resent marketing in general (“salesmen are crooks!”)

They’ve been bred into thinking that they have to find a “job” and work for someone else (big mistake) and that trying to live from your passion is for hippies and losers (or that it’s not “practical”).

Here’s the key to succeed making a living doing what you love:

1- First, get out of the sheep mentality before it’s too late.
2- Start an Internet business on the side. Put as many hours as possible on it, but do it regularly.
3- Focus first on being able to generate enough revenues so you can quit your day-job. Don’t kill your current cow until you have another source of nourishment!
4- Stop hanging out with sheep too often. Find entrepreneurs and other people who think like you, and spend more time with them.
5- Stop doing sheep-stuff in your free time. Watching TV is a first thing that comes to mind. There are other time-waster and brain-washers you should avoid. I think you know what they are already.

Here are some books and resources that you also need to get and use:

1- Read the book “the E-Myth” by Michael Gerber. This will give you a good overview of what’s a true entrepreneurial mentality.
2- Read the book “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Tim Ferriss, and get excited about the possibilities.
3- Read the book “Getting Things Done” by David Allen, to know how to organize your time for maximum productivity.

Finally, I also highly recommend that you subscribe to my “Do What You Love Success Group”.

This is a membership program that I started over one year ago that is going strong and growing!

I publish a monthly, printed and mailed newsletter for our members called the “Do What You Love Newsletter”, where you’ll find all of my latest discoveries and inside information to succeed on the Internet and making a living doing what you love.

We also produce monthly training videos, and we also have phone meetings and teleseminars, as well as a content-rich discussion forums for our members only, where you can ask us any question you want, and meet fellow "freaks" who make a living doing what they love or are in the process of doing it.

If you sign up before tomorrow, you will receive our April issue which is all about creating an online business which could be almost completely automated! I’m sharing with you *one* technique that has allowed me to go from working 50+ hours a week on my current “raw food” Internet business to being able to work only about 5 hours a week on it and get the same results.

To subscribe, go to: http://www.dowhatyouloveuniversity.com/new.html

Yours for success,

Frederic

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Go Greens
*Daily Health & Success Tips*

My tip for today is:

"Go Greens"

Yes, go greens!

Enjoy the benefits of eating more dark, leafy green vegetables in your diet.

As you know, I'm a big fan of green smoothies.

But that's not the only way to eat greens.

You can:

Juice 'em!
Blend 'em!
Steam 'em!
Chew 'em!

Whatever you do… try to get 1 to 2 pounds of dark leafy green in your diet every day.

Here are some of the benefits you will experience:

- Improved energy
- Stronger bones (because of the mineral profile of greens)
- Reduced risks of deficiencies
- Look younger
- Improved digestion

In fact… this is just the beginning! Some people report a complete health transformation with that change alone!

Here are some of the best greens to consume:

- Kale: full of calcium, easy to use, many varieties
- Celery: full of natural sodium, an important green to use
- Romaine lettuce: full of minerals, easy to digest
- Spinach: great taste, full of minerals and calcium

And that's just the beginning… each green has its own particular nutritional profile and benefits. So try new ones, like: Italian broccoli, beet greens, mustard greens, collards, and more!

Although I like to blend a lot of greens in the form of green smoothies, I also enjoy some vegetable juice. Here's a good mix:

1-2 carrots
half small beet
3-4 celery ribs
several leaves of kale
Spinach
Fresh lemon juice

Juice all ingredients except the lemon… add the former at the end and enjoy!

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Yours for health and success,

Frederic Patenaude

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Yoga Wimps
*Daily Health & Success Tips*

Okay, I'm getting a little belligerent, but here's my
opinion of yoga: yoga is a great physical and spiritual
practice, but not a complete exercise it itself!

Don't turn into a yoga "wimp".

My tip for today is:

"Whether you're a man or a woman, whether you're young or
old, lift weights for building strength."

If you don't already lift weights, you should start.

The benefits are numerous:

- Weight lifting will energize you, add functional strength
that you can use
- It will improve your posture and reduce your risks of
osteoporosis
- It will improve your balance and coordination
- It will improve your immune system and make you less prone
to low-back injuries
- It will improve your digestion, your resting heart rate,
your muscular endurance
- It will help you look younger, and help you burn more
calories when you're at rest (more muscles burs more
calories!)
- It will improve your confidence and may your daily
activities easier

And that's not to speak of the cosmetic aspects!

Don't start thinking that you will look like the pictures of
"Hulk" in the magazines… that's very unlikely unless you
train specifically for that!

Now… when I say weight lifting, I actually mean lifting
actual weights, not just your body.

Although bodyweight exercises are great, and I really
recommend them, I think everybody needs to actually pump
some iron if they want to increase their strength.

Bodyweight exercises mostly build your muscular endurance.

Weight lifting builds your strength.

In theory, you could design some body weight exercises that
can also build your strength… but those are too
challenging for the average person.

Can you reasonably expect to do a "handstand pushup" (which
means you'll have to stand on hands, against a wall, and
push up)?

That's the way to build strength on your shoulders using
body weight exercises only.

But with weight training, you only have to lift a weight
above your shoulders to achieve the same benefits. So this
is much more accessible to most people.

Don't think you need any special equipment to start weight
lifting, or any expensive gym membership!

All you need are a set of dumbells. Overtime, you can
purchase heavier ones or buy a set of adjustable dumbells
(If you can save for it… I recommend the best in the
world… the Powerblock, at http://www.powerblock.com)

Then you also need an adjustable bench.

And that's it! That's all you need to get started.

Of course, you also need to know what exercises to do.

For that, you can learn the routines from a friend. You can
buy a book on the subject (a good eBook I recommend can be
found at: http://fredraw.westy04.hop.clickbank.net/)

All you have to do is to train for about 30 minutes three
times a week, and you will build more strength!

Remember, this is important especially as you get older, and
especially if you're a woman (although men need it too!),
because typically women and old people tend to avoid
strength-building activities.

So start getting stronger now!

Frederic

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Energy Without Limits
*Daily Health & Success Tips*

My tip for you is one that I've recently implemented with much more diligence in my life, and seen a huge difference in the way I feel:

"Exercise Before Every Meal"

It's amazing once you realize how much exercise is related to nutrition and digestion! In other words, exercise improves every aspect of your assimilation, including:

- The ability to process sugar efficiently (called "insulin
sensitivity")
- More efficient digestion and uptake of nutrients
- More natural hunger, more desire to eat natural foods.

The natural pattern is simple… you have to create "demand".

You have to empty your fuel tank before you fill it again.

You have to lower a bit your blood sugar before rising it again… other wise you're just filling up an already full tank!

The way to do that is to exercise before every meal. More on Energy Without Limits

I have a great article for you today, where I reveal my “formula” for succeeding on the Internet. But before I do that, I just want to remind you that we have a few spaces available for our course on How to Write Your Own eBooks, and the launch is going to be over shortly. To get the details, go to: http://tinyurl.com/2ct5qh

I remember many years ago, when I was first hearing about eBooks, I heard about a friend of a friend who was making over 40K per month selling a stupid little eBook on how to need less sleep.

I have to admit it… I have a competitive side. I hate to “lose”… and in fact as a child I would often get mad when I lost at any game… and then either decided to *give up* or relentlessly studied to get better.

So when I heard about that guy… it simply awoke something in me. At the time, I was not exactly super-successful on the Internet, but I was in the process of learning how to be.

The thought that someone could be making a huge 6-figure income by selling a little eBook online was something unfathomable to me!

How did he do it? I wanted to know his secret.

So here’s what I’ve discovered…

This is the formula to “cheat” your way to success on the Internet, by doing the opposite of what you *logically* think you have to do.

What most people seem to think is necessary online is building a big website with lots of articles, graphics and post on your blog every day.

Then you’re supposed to learn endless “search engine” techniques to somehow get at the very top of the results in your market, which is a feat that at the very best takes many months of hard work to accomplish.

Then at *some point*, down the road, you’re going to sell a product and start earning a living.

Is that really necessary?

It’s true… I have lots of pages on my site, lots of articles and lots of content, and I get traffic from Google that way.

But that’s not my strategy for success. Here’s my strategy, and what I would recommend to someone starting from stratch:

I would start with one product and make my “website” the sales page for that product.

The copywriter Peter Stone once said “You’re only one salesletter away from a million dollars.”

If you want, you can replace “million dollars”, with:

- Earning a living doing what you love
- Creating the life you want
- Working from anywhere
- Having more time to enjoy life

In my experience, this “salesletter” is the real key to success.

That’s why I focus a lot of my time on writing these pages.

And here’s the trick:

*Your website doesn’t have to be anything but a salesletter for a product that you sell*

That’s right!

- You don’t need a blog.
- You don’t need a content website.
- You don’t need an “about us” page.
- And you certainly don’t need a website that starts with the words “Welcome to My Site” (which by the way, you should completely eliminate if you already have a website!)

Although having a blog and content can be great, the real magic comes when you have a salesletter that works for you.

So here’s my formula to success.

1- Create a concept for a product you can sell. I recommend an eBook as a first product.

2- Write a salesletter for that product. Make it good!

3- Your website IS your salesletter.

4- On that website (which is just a salespage), you will also build your e-mail newsletter list by offering a signup for your newsletter.

5- Continue improving and tweaking that salesletter to get better results.

And there you have it. Your own business online, that starts to work for you.

“But how do I get people to that website?” you might ask…

Don’t worry, that’s not the hardest part.

If you have a good salesletter and a good product:

- You can find affiliates who will bring traffic to your website.
- You can advertise on Google.
- And you can even start a blog (although I don’t recommend to do this first).

But first, focus on having a great salesletter and your own eBook to sell. And make your website just one salespage!

Want to know the step-by-step method for doing this? Consider signing up for my course on “How to Write and Sell Your Own eBooks in 24 Hours or Less.”

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Yours for success,

Frederic Patenaude

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Top 5 Mistakes of First-Timers Online
*Do What You Love E-mail Tips*

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*The Top 5 Mistakes of First-Timers Online*

Mistake #1: Putting Too Much Stuff on Your Site

The biggest mistake I probably see people make when they get online is to put together a big site with lots of information, and not seeing any results from it. Have you made the same mistake yourself? 

The average person’s idea of a website is either a blog or website with lots of graphics, links all over the place, a welcome page that uses the word “welcome to my site” (bad idea!), all kinds of links and nothing to sell.

There’s a sales concept that states that “a confused mind always says no”

If you give your website visitor too many choices, he or she will almost always say no and in your case… that means leaving your site!

When people come to the average website… they are confused with too many choices.

There are links all over the place, pictures, animated graphics, ads…

You can subscribe to a blog, maybe buy a product, read your “about you” page…

In other words… you’re giving too many choices.

It’s best to always restrict choices to one or two options. Generally, that means: buy or don’t buy, or subscribe or don’t subscribe.

It’s great to have a blog! But if you do it… your purpose for it must be clear. Personally, my blog is not my main strategy for building my business.

But if you have a blog… then don’t confuse your readers with too many choices. Get them to subscribe to your list, and make each post lead to a specific action you want them to take.

If you’re selling a product, completely isolate your sales-page for that product from the rest of your site. Do not give your visitors the option of going anywhere else or clicking on additional links.

And if you have a website with multiple links… get rid of the unnecessary, and create a “flow” within your website so it’s clear where you want people to go next to find out more.

That approach is far more successful than trying to be all things to everybody by giving too many options. 

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Mistake #2: Not Building Your List
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There’s no point in having a website if you’re not building your list!

The main objective of most websites should be to get visitors to subscribe to your e-mail list.

That “list” can be many things:

- It can be an e-mail newsletter you send out every week
- It can be an automated mini-course that people can subscribe to
- It can be a series of tips that you send to people when they subscribe
- Or anything you want!

But focus on building that list.

I personally have found a direct relationship between the size of my mailing list and how much my online income has grown over the years.

It’s reasonable to say that you can expect to make about $1 per person on your mailing list per month, if you know a little bit what you’re doing.

Remember: the purpose of your website should be primarily to build your list. Never forget that.

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Mistake #3: Not Having Your Own Product to Sell
————————————————————-

How long will it take you to realize that you *cannot* possibly make a full-time living on the Internet unless you are selling your own products?

If you want to get out of the rat race and do something you love… the key is to have a product of your own to sell.

For a first product, I recommend either an audio product or an eBook.

In my upcoming course on “How to Write and Sell Your Own eBooks in 24 Hours or Less” I will teach you exactly how to do that and how to build an entire business starting with one successful eBook.

I say it takes about 24 hours to complete the process, with some skills and the right tools.

That means that if you work on it for just one hour a day, you could be done in less than a month!

So how long are you going to wait to have your own product to sell?

There’s no way around it. You need one to be successful

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Mistake #4: Not Learning the Web
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Lots of people want to make a living online but know really *know* the web.

I’m not saying you should become a proficient web-master. You can always hire someone else to do the work for you.

But you should be clear about how the Internet works and learn the intricacies of it.

For example, can you tell me:

- What an RSS Feed is?
- What is Wordpress?
- What is an autoresponder?
- What is an “automated mini-course”?
- What is a “payment processor” or “merchant account”?
- What is “Web 2.0.”?
- What is “advertising copy?”

If you don’t know the answer to some of these questions, you need to spend more time learning the web.

Remember: it’s not the technical skills that are important, but rather the strategic skills. You need to understand a country if you want to start doing business in it.

Same thing for the web. Spend more time learning how it works. You can find most of your answers on http://www.wikipedia.org!

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Mistake #5: Not Learning Copy-Writing
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Copywriting is simply the writing of an advertisement. It’s “marketing in print.”

Unless you learn to become fairly proficient at copy-writing, you will likely not succeed on the Internet.

Why? First of all, there’s nothing more powerful than words and if you can learn to master the use of words for selling *yourself* you’re going to become incredibly successful. If you don’t, you probably won’t get noticed.

The good news is that you don’t have to learn this overnight! It’s an ongoing process.

I’ve been working at improving my copywriting for many years, and I still have more to learn. 

But just learning a *little* at a time will make a huge difference.

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So that’s it for today’s article. I hope that you’ve enjoyed it.

I will be back with more news this week on the launch of our course “How to Write and Sell Your Own eBooks in 24 Hours or Less.”

Frederic

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"A Tip to Avoid Confusion and Overwhelm"

My tip for the day is a “Success” tip. I have to include a few of them in these “Health & Success” tips and I believe these “Success Tips” are the most valuable of all tips, because they allow you to put everything you’ve learned into practice!

So my tip for today is:

“Define Your Top-Three Priorities Daily”.

When you start your day, determine what your top-three priorities for the day are going to be.

If you use a daily to-do list, spend a minute to ask yourself the following question:

“If I accomplished nothing but three things today and felt GREAT about my day, what would these three things be?”

Even if you don’t use a daily to-do list, I suggest to ask yourself that question and write it down on an index card.

I always carry as stash of index cards at my place to write down some notes and of course my priorities for the day.

You’ll have much more focus and energy when you’re clear about your priorities for the day.

And you might also realize that you spend too much times on thins that don’t matter, and little times on things that are really important and productive.

Writing down your top-three priorities for the day will help you advance faster towards your goals.

Yours for health,

Frederic Patenaude

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"Rebounding Exercises For Health"

My health tip for the day is: “If you’re looking for an indoor exercise, try rebounding.”

What exercises can you do on a rainy day? Some people like to go jog in the rain, the mud and the cold. They are the brave ones. Good for them.

I like to watch them from my window.

But seriously, that's not my style.

What do I do instead? I found a great workout I can do inside on a rainy do (or when it's too cold to go outside).

It's rebounding, a way to exercise that is complete and has several health benefits.

I won't talk about the so-called benefits of "cellular exercise." Because of the up-and-down movement of rebounding, apparently the lymph gets moving and this helps to detoxify and slow-down aging.

For me, the real benefits of rebounding is that it's something you can do inside on a rainy day. Plus, it can be a great cardio-endurance-toning workout if you know what to do with the rebounder.

So two tips for rebounding:

1. Get a good rebounder. Not those cheap ones at Walmart. Get something that will last and will give you a real bound. My rebounder is a NEEDAK that I got on E-bay.

2. Get a DVD workout for rebounder. Most people have no idea what to do with their rebounder. I had one for years and the only thing I was doing with it was to jump up and down once in a while, and it got boring. Since then, I got a great DVD which as several workouts, one which is 45 minute long and is great for many aspects of fitness. You can get it from www.urbanrebounding.com, a company that also sells rebounders. I haven't tried them but they look great and for a great price too.

NOTE: If you’re not in the habit of exercising regularly, you might want to start with that first! Don’t think that a rebounder is going to be the magic solution that will get you in shape. You have to get in the habit first.

If you have problems implementing a good fitness program into your life, I *highly* recommend that you check out my program on “Living Naturally in an Unnatural World.”

It will teach you everything you need to finally succeed with a fitness program, overcome cravings and the temptation to fall of the wagon.

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Yours for health,

Frederic Patenaude

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